There are many tiny wonders that human eyes can't see. Thanks towe call photomicrographers (微观摄影师), the amazing small worlds have been shown to the public.
Zhang Yefei, the 41-year-old software engineer from Jiangsu,(shoot) the eggs of hundreds of butterflies and moths (蛾 )in the past two years. His photo of jelly-like moth eggs won himtop 20 award at the 2022 Nikon Small World Competition in October, making him an(influence) photomicrographer.
Looking for moth eggs is very difficult. Zhang(usual) takes a magnifying glass during his trips into the wild. He uses it to look for the(leaf) with eggs on them. The eggs are often less than a millimeter in width. (take) photos of them, Zhang uses a microscope as his lens. But a photo can capture only a small part of the egg. To fully present an egg, he first takes around 500 to 1,000 photos and then uses a computer technology to combine.
the challenges, photomicrography also brings Zhang surprises. When he uses LED lights to light the photos, the temperature can speed up the incubation (孵化 ) of the eggs. So he was able to see how a larva (幼虫) turns into a butterfly. "I'll try and find out more interesting things about the small worldbring them to light,"Zhang said.
