The US Geological Survey’s Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab Flickr has more than 1,200 macro photos of bees and other insects.
Curated by USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Biologist Sam Droege.
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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.
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.
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
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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
Russian photographer Alexey Kijatov connected an old and cheap 44M-5 Helios lens to his Canon Powershot A650 with a wooden plank, tape screw, and a piece of glass. Details of his build on his blog.
Piña Colada
Each of these vibrant images is actual a drink, close up. This one to the right is a Piña Colada. Click on any of the above to see what drink it is.
Normally, researchers observe snow crystals at moderate levels of magnification (30X-500X). The electron microscope, however, allows for observation at over 100,000X.
26-year-old photographer based in Tel Aviv, Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein has created quite the astounding set of gorgeous macro photos of insects.
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.
Semenov says about his underwater photography:
When I first began to experiment with sea life photography I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old DSLR camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates under water and then I’ve shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure I ended up with a few good pictures, which I’ve showed to the crew. It has inspired us to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. Thus I’ve spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you’re working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Eventually I began to get interesting photos — one or two from each dive. Now after four years of practice I get a few good shots almost every time I dive but I still have a lot of things that need to be mastered in underwater photography.
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Felix Salazar took to his Los Angeles salt water aquariums for these gorgeous macro shots of coral.
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Rob Kesseler is a British professor and photographer with an acute interest in the microscopic details of exotic flora. Right at the edge where science breaks through into art, these images have had their colors modified to allow for structural differences to be visible, but result in stunning images on their own.
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Macro shots of eyes are simultaneously beautiful and creepy, these from Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan.
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.
