Some incredible early morning shots of wet insects by German photographer Martin Amm.
Red veined darter
Horsefly
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Emerald damselfly
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Emerald Damselfly
Martin Amm, 2008
Martin Amm's beautiful photographs are perfect bioephemera: insects bejeweled with droplets of dew. The crisp iridescence of these photos is simply mesmerizing.
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tags: cicada, 17-year cicada, Magicicada
"Cicada"
Image: Wikipedia.
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What utterly cool pictures! Thank you for posting them!
This are AMAZING! thanks for posting...so beautiful...
this is why german photographers are considered spray-bottle terrorists to insects.
I love the first one with the segmented parts of eyes in the droplets.
What can I say but WOW!!
Really nice. Thanks for sharing.