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.
Russian artist, Ruslan Khasanov’s Pacific Light takes a macro view of the vibrant liquids, paints and inks.
German photographer Stefan Diller has created HD footage with microscopic images of plant and insect life. The tech, nanoflight, is “a revolutionary new way to visualize structures of the microworld,” and can" move a virtual camera in eight degrees of freedom around the specimen.”
Dr. Fernan Federici, a renowned molecular geneticist and award-winning microscopist, also takes amazing photographs of plants at the cellular level.
See also Macro Elements
Felix Salazar took to his Los Angeles salt water aquariums for these gorgeous macro shots of coral.
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I love the subtle touches: the attention to tone, the title-shift focus on the dew drops, the color. These macro photos from Russian amatuer Oleg Zhukov make me fall a little bit in love with the genre.
