Lady Buy Portrait Studio, originally uploaded by LightAsMagic.
This summer we had an aphid problem. Our aspen trees were covered with the little buggers. As a rule, my wife and I despise the use of chemicals or pesticides so we began to look for natural solutions. I’m not sure where we learned it, but we were told ladybugs are aphid’s natural predator. In addition to that, we discovered you could buy ladybugs at the local flower shop. We ended up buying 4000 ladybugs and declaring war on the aphid population. It was actually a success. A trick to this technique is to refrigerate the ladybugs for about 15min prior to their deployment. This lowers their metabolic rate and decreases their ambition making it less likely they will flee your garden. Anyways, with 4000 ladybugs a photographer has quite a few subjects to pose in the garden portrait studio.
This image was shot with the amazing Nikon AFS 105vr Macro.
