Can You Guess What the Objects in These Closeup Photos Are?
A peeled orange and a red bell pepper. That’s what I thought a pencil and a Coke bottle cap were when I saw them in…
Watching Cigarettes Burn Up Close Is So Much Cooler Than Smoking
Don’t smoke. It might look a teensy bit cool, but it’s a dumb thing to start, a filthy habit to quit, and terrible for…
Burning Steel Wool Becomes a Raging Firestorm Through a Camera's Close-up Macro Lens
Peering at the world through a close-up macro lens reveals tiny details that normally go unnoticed. It can also make…
Watch Crayons Melt Into Wonderful Blobs of Color
Anything looks cooler in macro. Setting stuff on fire with a blowtorch is rad, for obvious reasons. And even in death,…
Gorgeous Video Shows Crystals Forming from Up Close
Chemistry sure is a pretty science, especially in macro. Just check out the stunning crystallization process of things…
Dye and Soap in Macro Looks Like Exploding Galaxies
Throw some dye into milk, add a drop of soap and suddenly the whole thing turns into a psychedelic mess of shapes and…
Shooting Challenge: Creepy Crawlies
We’re in the thick of summer now, which means one thing. The creepy crawly bugs are out. But don’t be afraid. For this…
Mold is surprisingly beautiful when you look at it up close
Russian photographer Nick Lariontsev made this cool time-lapse using macro lens to show how mold grows from up close.…
Watching all these macro shots of machines being used put me in a trance
Mazer Media, the people who filmed this short Machines Rule the World, promises that there is a story in this video…
Chemical Reactions Shot in Ultra HD Look Like Alien Life
Chemical reactions are those magical moments when the matter that surrounds us suddenly bursts into life. A stunning…
The eyes of animals look a lot like alien worlds
Continuing his fantastic series of macro shots of the eyes of animals, here is Suren Manvelyan's Animal Eyes 3. The…
How to Take Eye-Popping Pictures of Tiny Bugs
Alex Wild is an entomologist. He's also an amazing photographer who's become famous for his highly detailed, almost too…
Scale is Deceptive
When faced with a scene in real life, it seems obvious that this is a massive landscape, or a microscopic view under…
Zeiss Brings New 50mm f/2.8 Macro Lens to Mirrorless Cams
Zeiss is expanding its lineup of APS-C lenses for Sony E-mount and Fuji X-mount with a new Touit 50mm f/2.8 macro lens.
Amazing close-up photos of snowflakes taken without a microscope
These are the best kinds of snowflakes: the kind that are under the lens of a camera and not piled up outside my door.…
Macro Photographs of Electronic Components Are the Best Geek Porn
Johngineer from Adafruit has a deliciously geeky hobby: he takes amazing macro-focus photographs of electronic…
11 Glittering Insects From the US Geological Survey's Bug Collection
Insects are pretty much the raison d'etre of macro photography. And while there are plenty examples out there, this…
Shooting Challenge: Giant Plants!
Last week, we looked at bugs. This week, I'm sending you back into the bush to catch more of nature's nuance on the…
75 Close-Ups Of Bugs
Up close, bugs are terrifying. Heck, from far, bugs are terrifying. But with the safe distance through the lens of a…
Shooting Challenge: Insects And Other Creepy Crawlies
This is it. My favorite annual Shooting Challenge of the year. You go out into the grass and muck and photograph bugs.