{"id":7300,"date":"2015-08-07T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:51:52","slug":"glowing-nepenthes-sabre-and-song-of-melancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2015\/08\/glowing-nepenthes-sabre-and-song-of-melancholy\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Nepenthes: “Sabre” and “Song of Melancholy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carnivorous plants are badass. Beauty, seduction<\/a> (um, yeah that’s a NSFW link), devious trapping prowess… acoustic echo location<\/a> skills, and even glow in the dark skills just to name a few – they never cease to amaze. Heck, carnivorous plant skills even rival THIS DUDE’S impressive list of skills<\/a><\/b>. Anyway, ever since I saw this in Nat Geo<\/a>, I’ve been inspired to shoot around with these plants in 254nm UV light.<\/p>\n

You can see some of my other posts here: Nepenthes: In Different Light<\/a>, Red Queen Glows Blue<\/a>, Nepenthes robcantleyi in UV Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently, the amazing Paul Barden<\/a> sent over a few more beautiful botanical gems (THANK YOU PAUL!!) and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity of putting them under some black light and getting a long exposure going. Now, this isn’t your typical black light I’m using. These photos are shot using a specific 254nm wavelength UV light as I’ve referenced in my other posts above.<\/p>\n

Check these beauties out! You can mouse over the image to see them in natural light. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Nepenthes “Sabre” under 254nm UV Light.
\n144 second exposure, f 5.0, 50mm. Mouse over to see the plant in normal light.\n<\/p>\n

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Nepenthes “Sabre” under 254nm UV Light.
\n116 second exposure, f 5.0, 50mm. Mouse over to see the plant in normal light.\n<\/p>\n

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Nepenthes “Song of Melancholy under 254nm UV Light.
\n24 second exposure, f 6.3, 50mm. Mouse over to see the plant in normal light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carnivorous plants are badass. Beauty, seduction (um, yeah that’s a NSFW link), devious trapping prowess… acoustic echo location skills, and even glow in the dark skills just to name a few – they never cease to amaze. Heck, carnivorous plant … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,695],"tags":[1157,1328,1143,1329,842,101,114,1327,1127,1142],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-nepenthes-2","tag-1157","tag-254-nm","tag-black-light","tag-flippin-gosh","tag-glow","tag-nepenthes","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-sabre","tag-song-of-melancholy","tag-uv-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}