Stunning photos of the ancient insects caught in amber
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How's this for an art project? Photographs of insects that are 45 million years old! The critters were caught in tree sap which hardened, leaving them perfectly preserved. The hardened tree sap is called amber.
Artist Levon Biss took hundreds of detailed photos of each piece of amber and then stitched them together to form each of the final pictures.
It's hard to believe that each insect was in fact less than 3mm in length!
Levon suspended each piece of amber in a special fluid to allow him to have absolute control of the lighting conditions for his photographs.
He says that he sculpts the light around the insect to create these highly detailed and clear images.
All the insects in this series were found in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
London-born photographer Levon calls these artworks "microsculpture" and exhibits his artwork in museums around the world. Have you ever seen an insect look so stunning?!
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