{"id":6042,"date":"2017-10-10T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:58:12","slug":"photography-microsculptures-incredible-macro-photography-of-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/photography-microsculptures-incredible-macro-photography-of-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: &#8220;Microsculptures,&#8221; incredible macro photography of insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Levon Bliss combines thousands of captures to create each of his <a href=\"http:\/\/microsculpture.net\/\">\u201cmicroscuplture\u201d portraits of insects<\/a>. Check out this brief overview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157712307?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s up your alley, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/levon_biss_mind_blowing_magnified_portraits_of_insects\">his TED talk<\/a> as well\u2014not to mention\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/10-big-photos-tiny-things\">this year&#8217;s winners of Nikon&#8217;s Small World photography contest<\/a>. For those not interested in having terrifying nightmares, I\u2019ll thoughtfully omit the giant close-up of a tapeworm head. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Photographer Levon Biss was looking for a new, extraordinary subject when one afternoon he and his young son popped a ground beetle under a microscope and discovered the wondrous world of insects. Applying his knowledge of photography to subjects just five millimeters long, Biss created a process for shooting insects in unbelievable microscopic detail. He shares the resulting portraits &#8212; each comprised of 8- to 10,000 individual shots &#8212; and a story about how inspiration can come from the most unlikely places.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NewImage-10.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/157712307\">Vimeo<\/a>] [Via Peyman Milanfar]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levon Bliss combines thousands of captures to create each of his \u201cmicroscuplture\u201d portraits of insects. Check out this brief overview: If that\u2019s up your alley, check out his TED talk as well\u2014not to mention\u00a0this year&#8217;s winners of Nikon&#8217;s Small World photography contest. For those not interested in having terrifying nightmares, I\u2019ll thoughtfully omit the giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6043,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}