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Stage 5
UV Flower Photography - Debera Lombardi
"I take my photos in a totally dark environment, illuminating the subject by a UV torch, and applying technical measures resulting for various experiments"
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Contrast _Selective Focus_ Use of Light
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Insects are capable of detecting UV and colours using photoreceptors. Bees and ants are able to simultaneously receive information from the wavelength and e-vector (vector representing the electric field of an electromagnetic wave) of incoming light using its receptors.
However, bees can see UV light patterns that are invisible to us. Many flowers have UV patterns on their petals, which act as a signal to help bees and other insects to find and pollinate the flower.
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