Rock tulip - Tulipa saxatilis in reflected ultraviolet photography, simulated bee and butterfly vision III

Today some shots of an early spring flower I have written about before, a Rock tulip - (Tulipa saxatilis "Lilac Wonder") (often wrongly labeled T. bakeri) in reflected ultraviolet photography using my "work horse" UV filter, the Baader-U filter as well as my XBV filters for simulating butterfly and bee vision. Lens was a UV-Nikkor 105mm quartz fluorite lens. Light source was sunlight. All shots were done at about f8.

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Quadriptych human vision, UV, sim. butterfly vision, sim. bee vision (left to right, top to bottom):
 

This rock tulip has a not so strongly visible UV pattern, its petals are UV bright, and this gets quite nicely visible in these close-ups.

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