Tropical  rain forest

Biosphere  II

A boy in the forest

Desert Museum

Alex Yu, May 2009

Biosphere II is an experiment conducted in the 1990s for exploring the possibility of creating a self-sufficient environment that could support human lives during long-term space travel. Today Biosphere II changed its mission to study other science topics, such as climate change. There are several different climate zones manipulated by the scientists in Biosphere II, such as the simulated tropical rain forest. The first three photos were taken inside the rain forest. I had to make the shot quickly because exposing the cameras to moisture would definitely be detrimental to the electronics.
The lower two are close-up pictures of flowers taken in the Desert Museum. I have a regular zoom lenses with the macros feature. I could not do a good job in sharpness anyway, and thus I employed soft focus instead.