Our speaker, Emily Murphy, has discovered that her backyard is a wonderful place to photograph, with many amazing miracles occurring right there! She has found two types of butterflies that lay eggs in her yard and has had a lot of fun following their growth. She recently documented, through photography and video, the life cycle of a butterfly in her backyard. She will discuss using some of the tools for macro photography and encouraging people to look in their own backyard to find amazing things. She will also share the container she uses to safely raise caterpillars away from predators.
Emily Murphy is a self-taught photographer and her photographic abilities have been greatly enhanced by her membership in the Kingwood Photo Club! Early on, she caught the photo bug, and while living in Switzerland, used an Argus Cintar that her dad had used in the 1930’s and 1940’s while he was a missionary in Barrow, Alaska. When she married her husband Rob, she upgraded to his Pentax and now uses a Sony mirrorless. She worked 45 years for Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine as a registered EEG technologist and ENG (inner ear) tech. During her career, she modified an infra-red camera used for ENG testing for use in intra-operative facial nerve monitoring, placing the camera underneath the surgical drapes and enhancing the outcome of the monitoring. (Standard monitoring doesn’t work during electrocautery). She loves kayaking and wildlife photography and frequently takes her camera(s) with her in a waterproof bag so she can get closer to her subjects.
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