Comments on: Handsome little devils!

Handsome little devils!

jonson — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:47:20 -0800

Aweseome, but brief Russian photo gallery of macro (mostly) insect (with a little frog thrown in for good measure) photography.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:56:46 -0800

Something tells me that no Industar lenses were harmed in the making of this gallery.

By: greycap

greycap — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:59:28 -0800

I think this may be a double - different site but same pictures.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:06:15 -0800

Curses! greycap's right. Searching for "macro" and "insects" to cut down on the number of results I got just searching for "insects" ended up not finding MMJJV's earlier version of this.

By: greycap

greycap — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:07:31 -0800

Sorry - didn't mean to to snark! Just knew I'd seen them somewhere before. They are stunningly beautiful, though, so no harm in seeing them again.

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:28:53 -0800

Well, so much for sleep. Nah, I kid. This is good stuff! And some of the photos are different from the ones in the previous post, so no worries.

By: peacay

peacay — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:34:05 -0800

Are these two both praying mantis!? Do they have wings? Or is it wings for lunch? Otherwise, what are they? [Thanks jonson, I like your doubles. Brilliant shots.]

By: wsg

wsg — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:48:16 -0800

Yep, they're mantises.

By: pruner

pruner — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:39:40 -0800

many, many more macro insect photos

By: Unregistered User

Unregistered User — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:14:38 -0800

Bravo, and merci. What a frightening, if, terrible beauty that was. Am I the only one creeped out by the eyes of the insects? There is a definition for that, --being creeped out by eyes--in the primate homo sapien-- , however, I'm to drunk to look it up at the moment.

By: cardoso

cardoso — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:24:33 -0800

This one looks like the Slurm slug from Futurama...

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:24:20 -0800

If bugs ever figure out how to get just a little bigger, we're all lunch.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:47:39 -0800

i'm with peacay: they fly?

By: zerokey

zerokey — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:37:22 -0800

Beautiful, cute and creepy! Thanks jonson!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:44:34 -0800

OMG these are spectacular images! wow! I mean WOW! A macro wow. What a treat. Thank you both jonson and Madamjujujive. I never saw the first post and so appreciate seeing this one. This is my fav but they're all wonderful. I'll never see a bug the same again.

By: davebush

davebush — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:03:05 -0800

Isn't it amazing how we all get bogged down in the mundane details of our lives, while such a weird, mysterious world keeps unfolding all around us? We share a planet with some incredible creatures and we barely care about them.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:13:27 -0800

We share a planet with some incredible creatures and we barely care about them. Amen. Folks with an urgent need to find life on other planets crack me up sometimes; I want to shake them by the shoulders and say, "Have you *seen* what's at the bottom of the ocean????"

By: Acey

Acey — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:49:32 -0800

Beautiful photos. Insects really are scary when they aren't tiny. Spectacular detail.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:25:26 -0800

Can't believe some of them are so hairy. Love this green punk do. This is the Dick Head bug.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:45:52 -0800

This is the Dick Head bug Heh. That's exacly what I thought when I saw that picture.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:11:02 -0800

Not Russian - Bulgarian.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:11:45 -0800

One of these photos has a pentacle with the Hellsing logo behind it, which forces me to wonder of some/many/all of the these images are actually models.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:36:09 -0800

Great shots. A lot of them seem to be posing, like that caterpillar with his arms crossed. Thanks for the pics!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:49:38 -0800

Hehe, jonson, maybe this should be labelled NSFW. And his face is sort of tilted, like somebody yelled, "Hey, dickhead!" and he looked up.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:52:54 -0800

Monkey Portraits

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:14:43 -0800

These pictures make an awesome screen saver, thanks.

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:49:33 -0800

SPrintF, I think that the picture in question is just this original picture, that someone photoshopped. I think it's real.

By: annieb

annieb — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:59:32 -0800

Great pics! I just had to share these with my science-loving son. Very cool.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:50:20 -0800

squirrel, Those really are amazing monkey portraits, they seemed unreal. Looked up the artist and she did some disturbing portraits of children crying. Made me feel queasy that she caused the kids to cry, manipulated them, didn't like that. All pop LA slick. Bubblegum nihilism.

By: chronic sublime

chronic sublime — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:40:53 -0800

Was I the only one who couldn't actually make it through scrolling the entire page? One too many mantises in a row, with all their spiny claws in sharp focus - and I had to close the window. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. And they have wings? Double brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Way to make my phobia even worse.