Tag: macro photography
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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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Spectacular Close Up Photography of Tiny Creatures Captured with a Laser-Scanning Microscope
Neurobiologist Igor Siwanowicz‘s latest photographic series takes us on a magical journey in extreme close up. His brilliantly colored images show the tree-like structures of moth antennas, the wild details of barnacle legs, and the otherworldly shapes of plant spores. The photos are made with a confocal laser-scanning microscope capable of “seeing” vast amounts of detail…
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Magic Mushrooms From Around the World!
Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. When we posted some spectacular images of mushrooms last week HERE, the blog immediately went viral. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry…
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Majestic world of mushrooms captured by Vyacheslav Mishchenko
Just imagine a warm summer morning, around 5:30 am. You are in a beautiful forest. You are surrounded by peace and quiet. And then, the forest wakes up. First the trills of birds, the croaking of frogs, a woodpecker’s knock. Photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko gets to feel this joy and happiness, and is lucky enough to see…
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The Magical Miniature World Of Frogs Photographed by Wil Mijer
The latest macro photographer to grace artFido with her beautiful and dream-like images is Wil Mijer, a talented photographer from the Netherlands who has a special place in her heart for the tiny world of colorful tropical frogs. Many tend to consider frogs to be vermin at best, but Mijer brings out the beauty in them.…
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Eye of the Spider: Hypnotizing Macro Photos of Exotic Spiders Staring Directly into Your Mind
Lots of people don’t like spiders. Some people are even down-right scared of them. Whatever you think about the eight legged critters, hopefully the amazing macro photography of Jimmy Kong will make you appreciate the intimate moments of arthropods found in his native Malaysia. Like hairy aliens from another planet, these tiny spiders seem to stare with giant, all-knowing…
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50 Perfectly Timed Animal Photos
Animal photography requires a great deal of time, patience, and some say luck… and this is where the debate starts. What part does luck play in photography? We rounded up 50 examples of perfectly timed animal photos which seem like pure luck. Most of these shots are so incredible that if you blinked you would have…
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Morning Dew on a Beautiful Lady Beetle
One of the most popular blogs we have ever posted featured macro photos of dew-covered insects by David Chambo which you can see HERE. It didn’t take much therefore to share this amazing dew-soaked photo of a lady beetle by German artist Jens Kolk. You can check more of their work out at WORDPRESS and via…
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The Most Beautifully Terrifying Spiders You Never Knew Existed
Wow! Ick. Oooh. Whaaaaaaat. No. No. NOPE. That pretty much summarizes our reactions while looking at these incredible macro shots of spiders photographed by Nicky Bay who lives and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a vast array of insects and arachnids, many of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close…
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Colorful Macro Photography of Coral by Felix Salazar
LA-based photographer and composer Felix Salazar recently captured some wonderful macro photographs of several inhabitants in his salt water aquariums. The shocking variety of color in his macro photographs makes the coral look like digital renderings, but Salazar assures us that each is a unique photo selected from hundreds of attempts to get just the right shot as he…