Macro Photos That Focus In on the Beautiful Details of Ordinary Things

Grain of white sugar by pyanek (AWWOW)

Can you tell what the translucent object is in the photograph above? It’s a single grain of sugar captured in a macro photograph by artist Pyanek, whose “Amazing Worlds Within Our World” project is a series of macro shots that show the beautiful details of ordinary things — things that we generally don’t (or can’t) see with our naked eyes.

Here’s the project presented in video form. For each of the photos, see if you can figure out what the photo is of before the answer shows up on the screen:

The photos were captured using a Canon T3i DSLR with a reversed kit lens and edited with HeliconFocus (focus stacking), Lightroom, and Exposure 5.

Here are the other photographs in the series:

Kitchen sponge
Kitchen sponge
Apple stalk
Apple stalk
'X' key on a computer
‘X’ key on a computer
Teabag
Teabag
Spaghetti
Spaghetti
Serrated knife
Serrated knife
Screw
Screw
Match
Match
Lipstick
Lipstick
Incense stick
Incense stick
Corrugated fiberboard
Corrugated fiberboard
Cornflake
Cornflake
Brass key
Brass key
Book pages
Book pages
Beach stone
Beach stone
Ballpoint pen
Ballpoint pen
Soap bubbles
Soap bubbles

Pyanek has released the images in the series to the public for downloading, viewing, and sharing.

(via Colossal)

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