The common insects that we hardly look at, mostly despise and even abhor, however they might become artistic intricate objects in macro-photography. Of course, some mugshots are frankly quite ugly, reenforcing our general dislike of flies and spiders. But that is not within my scope of topic. I just pick some pretty ones. If you want to see more such fascinating shots you can go and click the links I gave at the bottom.

Enjoy your Journey to the Insect World.

Most of the pictures are collected from phtodb and Micropolitan Gallery

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How many times you see those fly, bee, dragonfly, mantis, ladybug, and some unnamed insect flying around. Do you ever look close to them? How they look like when they are eating, flying, resting or sleeping? When your lens are so close them, you even can see their expression. They are not only a species in definition, they are living creature, like human, having their own emotion.

Following is a set of macro photography of insect (33 shots in 3 pages), enjoy your exploration to the macro world of insect.

Slime Mold wiki

Most slime mold are smaller than a few centimeters, but the very largest reach areas of up to thirty square meters, making them the largest undivided cells known. Many have striking colors such as yellow, brown and white.

Here, I will present 22 macro pictures of those tiny creature. Don’t get shocked by their stunning beauty.

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Macro photography is close-up photography; the classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” (i.e., film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject. Generally, that kind of close-up picture will reveal details that can’t be seen with our naked eye.

Here, I present 17 beautiful examples of macro photography. Hope that will give us a glimpse into the world that you fail noticing as we hurriedly shuffle through our day.

small bug

flower

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