Macro photography
Small things in a big way. Macro photography: The fascinating world of tiny miracles. Macro photos of insects, small reptiles and amphibians as well as fungi and plants.
Christian Alpert
Christian Alpert, a passionate amateur photographer from Hanover, Germany, finds inspiration in the beauty of nature. While his professional life is dominated by numbers - he is a mathematician - photography offers him a welcome balance. His focus is on nature photography, from the smallest details of insects to fascinating moments in the animal world and beautiful landscapes.
Rainer Armbruster
Rainer Armbruster is a passionate nature and wildlife photographer from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His pictures are mainly taken in his home region, which offers ideal conditions with its diverse landscapes and wildlife. Rainer believes in honest and authentic photography. His respectful approach to animals and nature characterises his work: he approaches his subjects patiently, quietly and almost invisibly in order to achieve impressive, format-filling shots with a long focal length.
Jan-Henrik Asmus
Jan-Henrik Asmus is a wildlife and macro photographer based in Dresden, Germany. It is important to him to photograph the often seen, everyday wildlife in order to portray the fascinating local nature. His photographs show that every animal has its own, often hidden beauty. Jan-Henrik pursues a creative approach that goes far beyond mere documentation.
Dave Augustin
Dave Augustin is a nature photographer from North Rhine-Westphalia who would like to present the local wildlife in particular with his gallery. Nature often hides in unexpected places. That's where Dave particularly likes to take photos.
Andreas Bartoldus
Andreas Bartoldus, a nature photographer from Lippstadt, Germany, discovered his passion for photography in 2007 while observing white storks. Today he specialises in macro photography, especially of butterflies and insects. His detailed and colourful images capture the beauty of nature in its smallest form without appearing exaggerated, striking a perfect balance between richness of detail and aesthetics.
Simone Baumeister
Simone Baumeister is a nature and wildlife photographer from the northernmost part of Münsterland on the border with Emsland. Her aim is not only to capture fascinating moments, but also to make the viewer aware of the importance of protecting our natural treasures. In addition to their brilliant quality, Simone's works are characterised by their versatility - and not only because of the different motifs. It is the many moods, the different styles that characterise her photographs.
Christa Böhm
Christa Böhm is a nature and macro photographer from the Wartburg region in western Thuringia. Her work is characterized by a deep amazement at the small wonders of nature that are often overlooked. She especially enjoys photographing the colorful and delicate butterflies, but her enthusiasm is for nature photography in general. The diversity and complexity of the animal and plant world inspires Christa, as does the fragility of these creations.
Enrico Bollin
Enrico Bollin is a nature photographer from North Rhine-Westphalia. His passion is macro photography. The small things that you hardly notice when walking through the forest and meadow, he photographs in a creative way. Detail shots, but also pictures with special perspectives Enrico makes very happy. Bird photography is another focus of his hobby.
Bob Daalder
Bob Daalder, born and raised in Den Helder, the Netherlands, has made a name for himself as an outstanding nature and macro photographer. His images are soft and dreamy, often characterised by delicate bokeh and bubbles of light. Sometimes he chooses a minimalist and simple approach, highlighting his subjects in their pure form. These stylistic elements give his photographs an unmistakable signature and captivate the viewer.
Thorben Danke
Macro and insect photographer Thorben Danke discovers a variety of colours and structures in the insect world that fascinate him. The passionate and ambitious insect photographer shows incredible macro shots up to a magnification of 60:1 in 10 photos. However, his approach goes beyond simply capturing details and impressions: he sees his work as an opportunity to change our view of these often overlooked or even annoying creatures and to draw attention to the alarming decline in insect populations.
Holger Dörnhoff
Holger Dörnhoff's photographic journey began in the 1990s. In addition to documentary landscape images and occasional animal portraits, his portfolio includes detailed close-ups of plants, small insects and amphibians, as well as abstract, artistic images. With a keen sense of composition, he uses light and shadow, bokeh, long exposures and blurring to create a fascinating balance between dynamism and stillness.
Astrid Emmrich-Wanless
Astrid Emmrich-Wanless is a nature photographer from Paderborn with a focus on macro photography. Her favorite subjects are flowers, butterflies and mushrooms and are mainly taken in her home and surroundings. Astrid's photography is more artistic and creative than documentary. Colors and an often purposefully used blur are an important feature of her images.
Raúl Espino
Raúl Espino is a Spanish nature and macro photographer from Seville. His photographic focus is the local flora and fauna. His photographs often show animals in their natural habitat.
Hans-Helmut Esser
Hans Helmut Esser, a nature and wildlife photographer from Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, was infected with the "photography virus" at an early age. His photographic beginnings ranged from 35mm to medium format to plate cameras on an optical bench, with an initial focus on landscape photography. Over time, he developed an increasing interest in nature photography of the local animal world.
Claus Fisser
Gallery of nature and wildlife photographer Claus Fisser from North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The focus of his work is macro and bird photography. The pictures of this ambitious amateur photographer show the local bird and insect world in an impressive way.
Focus on Wildlife
Focus on Wildlife is the brainchild of the enthusiastic Gerlach family of nature photographers from the Palatinate region of Germany. Jochen and Anja have long been inspired by the fascinating world of nature and its wild inhabitants. Tim, born in 2009, also discovered his love of nature photography a few years ago and has already won several awards for his outstanding images in the Young Photographers category.
Mark James Ford
"Beauty does not need to have a meaning, it is there, waiting to be found, in all things…". Nothing more needs to be added to this quote by Mark James, except this: Thank you for finding beauty for us and rendering it so fantastically.
Berthold Grünhagen
Berthold Grünhagen, from Taunusstein near Wiesbaden, Germany, is a nature photographer who has dedicated himself to wildlife and macro photography for decades. Whether in local forests or travelling to distant countries, he is always looking for the perfect moment to capture the beauty of an animal in its natural environment. For him, photography is not just about pressing the shutter button, but also about patience, knowledge and a deep understanding of the behaviour of the creatures in front of his lens.
Lina Grüppe
Lina is a nature photographer from Grafschaft Bentheim in the southwest of Lower Saxony. She was born in 2007. At the age of 15, she was added to 10Photos. Thus, she was and is the youngest photographer who made it to this platform. When you see her fantastic pictures, you may not believe her young age.
Michelle Gutjahr
Michelle Gutjahr, a nature photographer from Illertissen in Bavaria, discovered her passion for photography a long time ago. Her favourite time to shoot is in the early hours of the morning, when the light is perfect for macro shots and atmospheric landscapes.
Gerald Haas
Dr. Gerald Haas, a nature photographer from Schwarzenfeld in Bavaria, Germany, discovered his fascination for the beauty of nature in his youth. Equipped with a single-lens reflex camera, he set out early on to capture the unique facets of his surroundings. One of his passions is documentary and artistic macro photography, which he presents here in 10photos.
Stephan Heinemann
Stephan Heinemann is an ambitious amateur photographer from Goslar. His photographic focus is nature and especially macro photography - i.e. particularly detailed and close-up shots of animals and plants.
Michael Hruschka
Michael Hruschka is a macro and nature photographer from Rain am Lech in Bavaria. Already as a child, he spent every free minute in nature and finally discovered photography for himself in 2013. In the process, he learned to see nature once again with different eyes and to perceive it much more consciously. With his first DSLR camera, he was hooked and his hobby became a passion.
Silke Hüttche
Silke Hüttche is a passionate and creative nature photographer from Wuppertal, Germany. Most of her stunning images are taken here and in the surrounding areas of the Ruhr and Bergisches Land. Silke's special approach and ability to capture moods and stories in her images, as well as the unusual combination of urban elements with wildlife, set her photographs apart from those of other nature photographers.
- Animal and Wildlife photography, (H)armonious pictures with heart and soul, Landscape photography, Macro photography
Christian Hütter
Christian Hütter is a nature and wildlife photographer from Bergkamen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His passion for nature photography began in 1985 with the purchase of his first SLR camera. Although this passion often takes him to faraway places in search of new subjects, the local flora and fauna remain the focus of his work.
Günter Klein
Günter Klein is a nature photographer from Trabitz in Bavaria, whose impressive work has been taken mainly in the northern Upper Palatinate. He has been documenting the local wildlife with his camera for decades, making a valuable contribution to the protection of nature and its biodiversity. His images reflect a deep respect for the environment and an extraordinary knowledge of animal behaviour and habitats.
Roland A. Klein
Rand A. Klein is a macro and landscape photographer from the Westerwald in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Characterised by a deep connection to nature, Roland more or less consciously directed his photographic focus towards nature photography. Landscapes, plants and animals became his favourite subjects. His scientific background enabled him first to recognise "objective" nature and then to photograph the subject aesthetically, detached from it.
Ute Kloß
Ute Kloß is a nature photographer with a focus on macro photography. Her favorite subjects are plants and flowers, which she mainly photographs in the morning. Insects and amphibians are other coveted motifs.
Anke Kneifel
Nature has been a part of Anke Kneifel's life since childhood, and her curiosity about the small wonders of her local environment eventually led her to photography. She finds particular fulfilment in macro photography, capturing the smallest creatures and plants with impressive precision and beauty. In addition to macro photography, she is particularly interested in wildlife photography. Her photographs capture animals in their natural environment and show them in a variety of ways, usually in exciting lighting moods.
Andreas Kolossa
Andreas Kolossa is a macro photographer from Langenfeld, Rhineland, Germany. Andreas is driven by his love of nature, especially local butterflies. Each of his photos tells its own story, captured moments and little anecdotes that reflect his passion for nature photography.
Frank Langheim
Frank Langheim is a passionate macro and nature photographer from Bielefeld, Germany, whose journey into the hidden world of small things began in 2012. He had been fascinated by this particular type of photography for a long time and it was only a matter of time before he caught the macro bug. Even today he often gets up "in the middle of the night" to be on the meadow at sunrise.
Markus Lenzen
Markus Lenzen is a nature photographer from Eschweiler near Aachen, in the far west of North Rhine-Westphalia, not far from the Eifel-Hohes Venn National Park, whose passion for nature photography began back in 2008. Markus is inspired by the search for interesting motifs, which he likes to capture in an atmospheric way by playing with the light that nature offers. His images are authentic documents of nature, not created or distorted on a PC.
Sandra Malz
Sandra Malz is a passionate macro photographer from the Lüneburg Heath. Her macros were mainly taken in her homeland. The heath is not the barren landscape it was thought to be for a long time. Sandra's pictures prove this undoubtedly and in a beautiful way.
Sebastian Mare
Sebastian Mare, a passionate and versatile photographer from Stuttgart, Germany, is at home in the world of macro and wildlife photography. His images have a friendly and bright atmosphere. The harmonious mood of his work is particularly striking, created by an emphasis on naturalness and a deliberate avoidance of oversaturated colours or artificial effects.
Ines Mondon
One of Ines Mondon's main focuses is nature photography, in particular macro photography, landscape photography, abstract photography, as well as colors and shapes from nature.
Sebastian Morweiser
Sebastian Morweiser is a creative macro photographer from the Bergstrasse district of southern Hesse, Germany. His images are not only fascinating documents of nature, but also very appealing in terms of design. He uses sharpness and blur with great skill and places great emphasis on harmonious color compositions and aesthetic image design. In addition to his work as a photographer, Sebastian is a volunteer educator.
Heidi Nassenstein
Heidi Nassenstein, renowned photographer and native of Kiel, Germany, has traveled the world with her passion for photography and thirst for adventure, capturing countless fascinating moments. She is fascinated by creative macro photography, which gives her a new perspective on the world. In addition, landscapes and culture, often captured in a surreal and abstract way, play an important role in her photography.
Waltraud Nehls
Hanover-based macro and nature photographer Waltraud Nehls combines clarity, reduction and attention to detail to create her own unique style. She pays particular attention to small, fleeting and delicate subjects. She impressively sensitively plays with sharpness and blurriness. Rather than focusing on the obvious, she highlights what is easily overlooked. She draws inspiration from her native nature, as well as from numerous trips to Africa, Brazil, Costa Rica and other European countries.
Lars Ortgies
Lars Ortgies is an enthusiastic nature and macro photographer from Vechta in Lower Saxony, Germany. He is often drawn to a rewetted moor in his neighbourhood, which always captivates him early in the morning with its indescribable atmosphere. He is particularly fascinated by the morning mist and the insects on the moor, especially the dragonflies. But he also loves other animals such as frogs. He also loves to experiment and tries to capture his subjects in unconventional ways.
Mirko Paric
Mirko Paric is a passionate amateur photographer specialising in nature and macro photography. He is particularly fond of insects and his favourite subject is dragonflies, which he prefers to photograph early in the morning when they are covered in dew. The morning atmosphere and the soft light combined with the dewdrops give a special charm to his photographs.
Perdita Petzl
Perdita Petzl is an Austrian nature photographer. She photographs sensitively and emotionally. Her images are often characterized by delicate colors, soft light, and an extraordinary bokeh. But also abstract and reduced photographic works can be found in her portfolio. Sometimes colorful, sometimes monochrome, sometimes fabulously playful, her photos are usually not purely documentary. Rather, Perdita wants to give intimate insights into the magical world of insects and animals, tell little stories and awaken emotions in the viewer.
Gottlieb Schalberger
Gottlieb Schalberger is a nature photographer from Friolzheim, Germany. He is especially passionate about macro photography. But he is also fascinated by landscapes and weather phenomena. Especially his macro and abstract nature photographs show that Gottlieb not only documents, but also sets creative accents with his photos. His play with focus, color, and form often makes his images look like works of art.
Vera Schalberger
Vera Schalberger is a nature photographer from Friolzheim, Germany. Her passion is macro photography. Vera loves to capture small things in a creative and sometimes artistically abstract way. They are often tiny wonders of nature that you don't notice and pass by unnoticed. Vera has an eye for these things, be it plants or animals.
York Schamuhn
Nature photo gallery by York Schamuhn. York is a sympathetic nature photographer from the Weserbergland region. This mountainous region, known from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, offers ideal conditions for nature photography with its mountain ranges, valleys and many forests. So it is not surprising that York's photographic focus is the local flora and fauna.
Stefan Schaub
Stefan Schaub is a macro photographer from Eltville in the Rheingau region of Hesse. He has been involved in photography since 2011. This is for him the ideal complement and a balance for the busy and often stressful everyday life. Maybe even a little more, because Stefan writes about himself that photography is his passion.
Holger Schweden
Holger Schweden is a nature photographer from Heppenheim, Germany. One of his specialities is macro photography, especially of butterflies. He is fascinated by the intricacies and beautiful colours of these tiny creatures. But he is also fascinated by larger flying creatures. Holger is often out and about with a telephoto lens to capture the local birds.
Jannette van der Boon
Jannette van der Boon is a Dutch nature photographer. Her main focus is macro and landscape photography, especially the local flora and fauna. The fantastic and atmospheric landscape shots are wonderful proof that it doesn't need a spectacular landscape to take extraordinary and creative photos.
Alfred Villiger
Alfred (Fredy for short) Villiger lives in the northern midlands of Switzerland at the foot of the Jura mountains in the Olten region. The likeable Swiss is especially fond of macro photography, because for Fredy the small things are the big things. Another focus of Fredy's are the local birds.
Jörn Wallenwein
Jörn Wallenwein is an ambitious nature and macro photographer. Color contrasts, a soft but not monotonous background and good cropping are important to him in macro photography. Architectural photography (especially in black and white) is another of his main interests. He is the founder and operator of this website.
Jörg Wiltink
For Jörg Wiltink from Rheinhessen, Germany, nature photography is a welcome change from his hectic everyday life. He is particularly fascinated by macro photography. Looking through the lens allows Jörg to immerse himself in a world that remains invisible to many - a world full of small wonders and fascinating details. But he also has an irresistible attraction to landscapes, which he sometimes captures in an abstract and minimalist way.
Tilmann Wolfsgruber
Tilmann Wolfsgruber is a macro photographer born in 1976. Since 2016, he is more intensively engaged in the photography of small things. Insects and amphibians are his primary focus. He is a lecturer at the Nordpfälzer Fotoschule, where he wants to inspire other people to look at the uniqueness of nature as well as the beauty of people through the lens of a camera.
