Ready For Your Close-up?

The 2006 Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography was recently awarded to nature photographer Satoshi Kuribayashi for his amazing images of insects.

Check out more of Mr. Kuribayashi's mugs of bugs at the Lennart Nilsson Awards or by visiting his website, Kuriken.

And if you like these images in which tiny things loom large, take a look at the photographic mind-benders from our July 2006 issue, where the monumental is made miniature.