The Smaller, The Better: Macro Photography

Seeing nature through a macro lens brings new insights and perspectives that we all miss in our daily lives.Here are some of  macro photos of insects that am sure you will enjoy

Fly with dew droplet

Drops

Drops of dew hanging on the end of a blade grass. Background is out of focus marigold flower.

Ant peering into dew drop

Explosion

Dew collecting on the hairy end of a wild grass of some sort.

Jumping spider

On a red marigold leaf. Shot at about 3x life size and cropped slightly.

Dew speckled ant

Shot early morning with settling dew.

Jumping spider

Sitting on a Creme Soda can.

Jumping spider

Poised on the bed.

Dew hanging

Same jumping spider

Posing crab spider

Butterfly

Unsure of type, may be a moth….

Butterfly

Same newly emerging butterfly as earlier.

Dew drop refraction

Bluebottle fly with dew

Butterfly up close

Butterfly of some sort photographed at about 4x life size. Was sitting on a flower feeding and is covered in a little pollen.

Crane Fly

Dew on web

Refraction in drops of dew hanging on a spiders web.

Wing Fly blowing a bubble

A bubble of nectar been blown by this tiny fly.

Refraction in dew

Dew settled on the petal of a poppy.

Dew and fly

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Share Your Most Breathtaking Pictures Of Mountains

I find mountains to be one of the most incredible and breathtaking creations of nature. I've always admired high mountains from afar, but I never thought that hiking could give such an amazing, peaceful feeling and clear your head so totally until I tried and experienced it myself last summer. I've heard that if you climb a mountain once, you won't be able to stop - and I'm afraid it might be true!

Mountain photography has its own set of difficulties and advantages. Lugging all of your gear up, for example, is exhausting, but the way that a sunrise or sunset illuminates a mountain's face and accentuates its features is simply unbelievable!

I love these amazing pictures of spectacular mountains so I invite you to share your own as well and vote for your favorites!

#1 Sun Halo, Vitosha Mountain

#2 Kitzbüheler Alps, Austria

#3 Czerwone Wierchy, Poland

#4 Top Of France

#5 Horses On Hofn Beach

#6 Fatra - Slovakia

#7 Mirrormere

#8 Alberta, Canada

#9 Sivý Vrch, Slovakia

#10 Tatras And Czorsztyn Lake, Poland

#11 Seceda Peak By Fatih M. Sahbaz

#12 Everest

#13 Brocken Spectre

#14 Switzerland Alps

#15 Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

#16 Injured Sheep

#17 Wang Church

#18 Bivouac At Bouquetins

#19 Soldiers

#20 Fitzroy And Cerro Torre From Condors Nests

#21 North Norway

#22 Oeschinensee, Switzerland

#23 Gergeti Trinity Church Under Mount Kazbegi (Georgia)

#24 Civetta, Italy

#25 Þórsmörk, South-iceland

Artist Masterfully Turns Humans Into Animals Using Body Paint

Most people use makeup to be seen, but U.S. artist Shannon Holt takes this idea in a different direction, using paint to turn people into canvases for her beautiful and elegant animal paintings.

“You hear a song once live — you have that one beautiful experience and then you have the remembrance of it with a recording,” Holt told the Daytone Beach News-Journal, describing the transience of her paintings. “Body painting is the same. It’s probably the closest art form to music there is.“

Holt has a diverse artistic background, having painted on everything from canvas and paper to wood and metal. She says it was this search for different surfaces to work with that led her to try painting on skin for the first time.