Monday, February 13, 2012

Collision Course

We’ve all seen macro photographs of insects before, but never quite like this. German science photographer Volker Steger, created a series of photographs of insects that crashed into his car. He collected the dead bugs from the hood of his car and ran them under a scanning electron microscope. Steger describes his personal methods for capturing these amazing images: “The speed is important. The right speed is about 70km/h (43 mph). Flies that get hit by a car at that speed look like fallen angels in the electron microscope.”

Find out more about Volker's work here.

2 comments:

  1. This is what I think about when I get spiritually inclined; The randomness of life and death. So beautiful and so sad.

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