Intimate Insects

April 24, 2005 5:28 PM

An Insect's View (via Boing Boing)
posted by Gyan (14 comments total)

The low quality of the pictures didn't do it for me.
posted by Dean Keaton at 6:30 PM on April 24, 2005

I think these are beautiful, painterly and atmospheric. The bugs really have personality too; laboring, going for a stroll and so forth. Dean, can you elaborate on the lack of quality you perceive?
posted by Scoo at 6:38 PM on April 24, 2005

Yeah, I love insect photos but this is more of a teaser especially with the small size and the enormous copyright on each image.

I recently got a neato book called Buzz with the photographs of Volker Steger. The work includes large versions of photos like this. Highly recommended.
posted by vacapinta at 6:40 PM on April 24, 2005

These are very nice; I was just left wanting more. (And bigger). Thanks, Gyan.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:42 PM on April 24, 2005

Would it really kill him to preserve the EXIF information in the shots? *sigh*
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:15 PM on April 24, 2005

I'll agree and disagree. I would also have liked larger versions, but I think the pics are meant not to exhaustively bring every detail into focus. They're artistic, evocative. The pictures could be more revealing of each bugs each and every body part, but after viewing a bunch of them and adjusting to the esthetic, I enjoyed them. Each bug seems to have a different expression, and I found myself wondering where they were going and what they were up to in a way I just don't with those squeaky-crisp electron-microsocope shots. It cool to see really small things laid completely bare in blinding detail but I've seen a heck of a lot of insect photos and these are some nice ones.
posted by scarabic at 7:30 PM on April 24, 2005

An insect's view. no, really.
posted by dhruva at 7:53 PM on April 24, 2005

Leave it to the world's least-likely-to-factcheck copyfighter to post effusive praise for low-quaility jpeg thumbnails with giant copyright watermarks emblazoned across them.
posted by blasdelf at 8:30 PM on April 24, 2005

See also.
posted by rafter at 8:31 PM on April 24, 2005

What scarabic said...lovely in their way. But I also like the ones vacapinta and rafter linked.

And for more of the more detailed variety, I sure wish Raphael Carter was still posting his Honeyguide insect photos.
posted by madamjujujive at 8:41 PM on April 24, 2005

Yay, Rick Lieder is an old acquaintance of mine, and one of my favorite art prints is from him. This new work is lovely stuff.
posted by frykitty at 9:52 PM on April 24, 2005

i think what Dean Keaton meant was that the compression quality on these images is terrible. combined with the giant copyright it's almost painful to look at the pictures. or at least that's what i'm getting from it. the compression is so bad that the copyright is completely unnecessary. it's a shame, the images look like they'd be nice.
posted by Igor XA at 9:58 PM on April 24, 2005

The bugs are bigger than the bugs.
posted by pracowity at 12:25 AM on April 25, 2005

Also see Peter Kubal, living jewels, and mytinygarden.com.
posted by Jim Beecher at 5:28 AM on April 25, 2005