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Christopher of Colossal shared these photographs by Shikhei Goh, who lives and works on a small industrialized island called Batam Island, which is a 45 minute boat ride south of Singapore. Goh calls himself a “macro addict” and indeed his portfolio is loaded with incredible photographs of the local flora and fauna of Batam from turtles, lizards, birds and especially insects. We agree with Christopher who said,  ”My favorite images are his intimate shots of insect eyes that appear metallic and almost robotic.” So awesome! See more of Shikhei Goh’s fantastic photos over on 500px.

[via Colossal]

I love this gallery of close up photos of eyes. Gotta love eyes.

This close up photo of an eye getting eye drops is pretty awesome.

If you’re in Australia, you should check out ABC Open and their Up Close photography competition because the prize is rather cool and the project is even cooler.

If you’re not in Australia, you should check out the website anyway for lots of great media projects.

Some interesting microscope images of various every-day things.

Turns out that eyelashes are revolting.

And on a related note, some more teeny tiny images of odd arty things.

I rather like eyes. I have a small collection of old glass prosthetic eyes from the 1940s, the hand-painted sort. I just find them beautiful and interesting.