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#insects #Levon Biss #macro
Microsculpture: Macro Photographs of Iridescent Insects Composed of 10,000 Images by Levon Biss
Iridescent Bark Mantis
Photographer Levon Biss (previously) shoots highly detailed images of insect specimens for his continuing series Microsculpture, combining 8,000 to 10,000 individual shots to produce the final piece. Included in this selection are the shield bug and tricolored jewel beetle, which were both collected by famous naturalists. The former was collected by Charles Darwin during a visit to Australia in 1836, and brought back to the UK on the famed HMS Beagle. The luminescent tricolored jewel beetle was collected exactly two decades later by his contemporary Alfred Russell Wallace.
Biss has current exhibitions at the Hessischer Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany through August 5, 2018 and Naturama in Svenborg, Denmark through November 25, 2018, in addition to his first US exhibit Microsculpture: The Insect Photography of Levon Biss which opened at the Houston Museum of Natural Science earlier this month. You can buy limited edition archival pieces on his online print shop, and view interactive versions of his highly detailed composite images on his Microsculpture website.
Detail of Iridescent Bark Mantis
Detail of Iridescent Bark Mantis
Tortoise Beetle
Detail of Tortoise Beetle
Detail of Tricolored Jewel Beetle
Tricolored Jewel Beetle
Shield Bug
#insects #Levon Biss #macro
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