A biochemist by training, photographer Linden Gledhill is fascinated by the beauty of infinitesimally small aspects of nature and science, from capturing the flight of insects to exploring the beauty of magnetic ferrofluid.

Among his most jaw-dropping images are macro photographs of butterfly wings that reveal complex patterns that look like perfectly organized flower petals.

These tiny protrusions are actually scales, similar to what you would find on reptile, though extremely small and fragile.

I expect I am not the only one OCD enough to be twitching at referring to microphotography as macrophotography.

Photographs by Linden Gledhil.
Via Colossal.