June 9, 2006

Table-Top Photos of Grasshoppers (Jun, 1952)

Filed under: Just Weird, Photography, Taxidermy — @ 9:33 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1952
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Here’s an unusual photographic hobby:

Table-Top Photos of Grasshoppers

CREATING LIFELIKE SCENES in miniature is Dr. Lehman Wendell’s way of relaxing. The Minneapolis dentist arranges his insect “actors” with dime-store props. Their stage is the top of a tahle in the basement; lighting is supplied by two ordinary bulbs, one cm each side. Dr. Wendell snaps the scenes with a single-lens reflex camera and does his own processing.

2 Comments »

  1. Dr Wendell looks SO serious in that 1st pic

    Comment by Stannous — June 9, 2006 @ 2:09 pm

  2. are these dead when he poses them? ghoulish grasshopper corpse pics… this guy had issues

    Comment by Jeffery Wright — October 24, 2007 @ 1:57 pm

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