These images are stunning right after wakin' up and bakin' breakfast. Thanks for posting

My mind was blown by the amount of detail. Cameras these days

Awww man this ain't microscopic.

Nevertheless it is very stunning.

Great post.

The photographer has patience, perseverance, and a squirt bottle.

OMG THOSE BUGS AREN'T MICROSCOPIC! LIES! PANIC! SHAME! seriously take a chill pill and enjoy the amazing photos, people. Cool post, OP

Wow, what splendor. Nice find for sure. I never knew....
Gives me an art idea, schweet!

Peace,
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Sweet pictures. I had to have the ant for my desktop.
When I heard microscopic I was ready to see something really strange. Its turned out to be pretty amazing anyway, but they shouldn't say that in the title. Kinda misleads. I don't care thought, Ive never seen insects in that state. Impressive photography. It must rough being a bug.

wow thats cool. Strange how water beads up like that.

Thanks S+F

Originally posted by ChallengeAccepted
I just wanted to note that none of these insects are considered "microscopic". The pictures are taken with a microscopic lens. If the post title was accurate I would not have wasted my time looking at old news.

100% correct. There is no "microscopic" bugs here, only normal bugs with water droplets on them.

Title is INACCURATE.

Just bugs with water on them.

Very cool indeed

Wow!!! SO cool, thanks for sharing!

Though they are all stunning pictures, my favorite is the lady bug because of the droplet it carries reflecting the dandelion- awesome! We are lucky to have the technology to capture these images, the photographer did a very nice job. (My second favorite: the top picture. That blue bug's eye is already so cool looking, but amplified by the water droplets? Crazy!)

Originally posted by Asktheanimals
I wonder about that spray bottle idea...but it's easier to catch bugs in the morning before the dew evaporates which is how I'm guessing he got some of these.
Gorgeous pictures though. truly beautiful pics.

One thing is irrefutable, the picture are fantastic. Are they natural? I highly doubt it. For one it says caught in a down pour. Rain is never that fine and a downpour has massive rain drops.

As a photographer im willing to bed dollars to donuts a fine mist spray bottle was used. At the end of the day who cares how it was achieved the result is amazing. Top marks for the thread and the photographer.

As a macro photographer and an insect enthusiast, I can attest to the fact that he most likely did not shoot these after a downpour.... in fact many of the insects in these shots are quite skittish usually and would not be still for long enough for these shots to be taken (focus stacked) which leads me to believe they were taken early morning when they're still "waking up"... or an even less honest technique involves catching them and placing them in a freezer for a small amount of time and then placing them back into an optimal location where the colours in the background are emphasized. The droplets would have been created by a spray bottle and perhaps in some cases the more natural morning dew.

I can also tell many of the shots are focus stacked, which means he has taken multiple shots with focus directed at different parts of the subject and then stacked all the images together using some sort of software. Without this technique there's no way he'd get that sort of depth of field and sharpness in many of the shots. To do this would have taken quite a bit of time which is why I suspect he may have even frozen some of the insects and artificially created the situation.

At the end of the day the pictures are still amazingly awesome, but in my opinion the photographer was being a little dishonest for the sake of a better story, which obviously gives him more exposure.

These images are great! Good reference photos i can use for some paintings, really like the magnification the water droplets give on the eyes of one of the bugs. Thanks for sharing