Peony - Bee Vision

It is spring - finally - here and the Peonies explode their colors into the strong sun of spring. I wondered how bees would see that and took some shots today. To my surprise a creamy, otherwise all white Peony shows an UV pattern I haven't noticed before.




The outer petals reflect UV much stronger than the inside, thus creating some "landing spot" for their pollinators.




The synthesized bee vison version of that looks like that:




Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos

Waterlilly Reflections - remapped UV

Today it is just a picture, a remapped UV-to-visual image of waterlilly leaves in a pond nearby and some tree reflections. I found that visually appealing, so I hope you like it too:



This is also a remapped image, composed of two shots, a visual one and a reflected UV shot (310...390nm). UV was remapped into the visual domain as blue.

Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos