Moldovan photographer captures spectacular shots of insects covered in microscopic water droplets

Photographer, Dmitriy Reinshtein, 26, from Moldova in Kishinev, has taken a stunning set of pictures which show insects with tiny water droplets balancing on their heads and dotted around their feet in amazingly sharp detail.

He has spent hours waiting for that one special shot and admitted it was no easy task.

Dmitriy said: "Patience is one of the most important ingredients in macro photography and I believe that if I send the creatures some positive energy they will stay still long enough for me to get the perfect shot. That and holding my breath."

The snapper plants the droplets using a tiny pipette, small sticks and pieces of paper and came up with the idea after spotting a tiny spider sheltering from the rain.

Dmitriy’s love for creepy crawlies reportedly began when he was a child when he spent his days looking for insects while on holiday with his family in Turkmenistan.

He said: “When I was on vacation I fell in love with bugs and nature.

“Now bugs are my most successful subjects. I wanted to show how beautiful and complicated they are.

“The process I use to capture the bugs is always changing and I have about a 30 per cent success rate with each picture I take.”

Dmitriy used a Canon 5d mark II camera, as well as a Nikon d300 camera with a Tamron 90mm lense to capture the critters on camera.