Tag: bugs
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Thousands of Photos Combined to Create on Image of a Butterfly Wing
I never thought I would be running around with a net desperately trying to capture butterflies and dragonflies. But that was exactly what I was doing two summers ago at the local golf course. Living north of San Francisco I am surrounded by natural beauty with flowing waterfalls, giant redwoods, and luscious green hillsides. However…
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MicroSculpture Macro Photography Of Insects Composed of 10,000 Images by Levon Biss
Levon Biss captures extremely detailed macro photographs of a range of insects for his series Microsculpture. He uses a 36 megapixel Nikon D810, and each image is made up of around 8-10,000 individual photographs, using a 10x microscope objective attached via a 200mm prime lens, and the images are then stacked together to form one…
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Stunning Winged Insects Made of Discarded Circuit Boards
Portsmouth, UK-based artist Julie Alice Chappell creates beautiful miniature sculptures of insects using circuit boards found inside discarded electronics. “My art practice involves breaking down the pre-existing materials, reinterpreting them and offering them a new form with new purpose, creating something beautiful, whimsical and precious,” she said. It all started several years ago when she…
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The Magical Macro World Of Snails And Bugs By Vadim Trunov
With advancements in macro photography, a whole new world of insects and insect-like things can be captured in all their glory for all to see. Vadim Trunov, a self-taught nature photographer based in Voronezh, Russia, is one of the best in the business with a macro lens, taking beautiful macro photos of snails, insects and mushrooms…
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Strange Fairy-Like Sculptures Created With Body Parts Of Insects
Amsterdam-based artist Cedric Laquieze, previously featured for his animal skeleton sculptures decorated with flowers, has created a new body of work. He calls his little creations ‘Fairies’, they are constructed from the body parts of a myriad of insects, bones and seeds, sculpted into flamboyant quasi-bug creatures that look exotic and alluring. What do you…