Insect photography -- a bug's-eye view

My friend Rick Lieder just sent me a link to a website of his I had not seen before, Bug Dreams. I have always enjoyed his art, including his book covers and magazine illustrations. His photography and paintings are perhaps a bit off-beat--but certainly deep, evocative, and often highly-charged with emotion; the bug photography is surprisingly colorful, involving, and suffused with a sense of light and heightened awareness. A bug may not have much of a brain, but it's certainly "plugged into" its environment in ways our more-highly-evolved human consciousness has left behind on its way to the top of the evolutionary ladder--and you can feel it here.