Insect face close ups

[Louise]

Fantastic detailed close ups of insects in the Guardian today

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/jul/21/insects-close-ups-yudy-sauw-indonesia-in-pictures

[alia_801]

Brilliant pics! Thanks for sharing :)

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, fascinating. Yes, thank you for sharing.

[Taffy]

Fabulous images!

[Hope D Jennings]

Whoahhhhhhhh SO cool

[Jo]

Wow, amazing, just love the insect world.

[Jocasta]

@roachling Wow - quite amazing - although just a tad scary, too.

[Julie Duncan]

Something to aspire to . . .

[Gwenllian]

Wow! How amazing. Think what we miss!

[Brigette]

like some B-grade movie!

[Captured4Ever]

Wow scary but cool! I like the "black ant looking downtrodden" - he looks like some otherwordly bird!

[Melanie Rivers]

@roachling wow I would love to be able to take such great pictures like that but I don't have really good camera and how do they get so close? 😊

[Rachel]

@melanierivers Wow, aren't they amazing! From what I understand, they have a lens that can get that close, but the dof is so shallow that they need to splice quite a few shots together to get it all in focus like that. Does anyone know for sure?

[Natalie]

Thanks for sharing. Now I know where Hollywood gets their ideas for some of their aliens in movies!

[Krista Marson]

seriously wow.