Macro Insects by Photographer Nicolas Reusens

Photographer Nicolas Reusens uses a technique known as focus stacking — combining several images taken at different depths of field. These photos are from Costa Rica, Malaysia, South Africa, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and more. 

Macro Shots of Drops of Water on the Heads of Insects

26-year-old photographer based in Tel Aviv, Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein has created quite the astounding set of gorgeous macro photos of insects.

via PetaPixel

Animal Eyes up Close

Lemur Catta

Suren Manvelyan has made this outstanding photo series of the close up of Animal Eyes. Creepy, beautiful, amazing.

Lark

Blue-yellow macaw parrot

British short hair cat

Stingray

Snail

Discus fish

Coral zebra fish

Guinea pig

Tiger python (albino)

Nylus crocodile

Horse

Husky

Llama

via The Fox is Black

Snowflakes: Clear and Up Close

Don Komarechka, an Ontario, Canada-based photographer:

"The process is unlike most other photographers who shoot snowflakes, and allows me to play with prismatic color and surface reflections to a much greater degree."

He take multiple images he's shot of the snowflakes (against a plain black mitten his grandmother gave him) at different focus distances and merges them together.

via My Modern Met

Macro Elements

bismuth

silver

gold

tin

arsenic

tellurium

sulfur

sulfur

iodine

iodine

boron

lead

tin

bismuth

bismuth

bismuth

bismuth

Japan-based photographer R. Tanaka set of macro photos of the periodic table elements reveal the beauty hidden in the tinniest bits of the world.

via Demilked