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One Trick Made These Animal Photos Look Totally 3D

It's not every day you see nature photography quite like this.
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Science Editorial Fellow, The Huffington Post

If you like nature photos, you're going to love a gorgeous new series by French photographer Philippe Martin.

The animals depicted in the photos--from a bright orange frog to a huge yellow spider--are so lifelike that they seem ready to jump off the page.

How was Martin able to make the animals look so three-dimensional without having us wear 3D glasses? Each image is actually a mashup of hundreds of separate photographs. Martin layered the photos on top of another, and then edited them pixel by pixel to create a single stunning image.

Scroll down and get ready to be amazed.

Phymateus saxosus madagascariensis
Philippe Martin
This beauty is a member of a family of grasshoppers known as gaudy grasshoppers.

Taken with permission from Hyper Nature by Philippe Martin, Firefly Books, September 2015, $39.95"
Mantella aurantiaca
Philippe Martin
The golden mantella is a small frog found mostly in Madagascar.
Vitex coursii
Philippe Martin
A fuzzy flower bud of the Vitex coursii.
Lycopodium
Philippe Martin
A type of clubmoss, or ground pine.
Aranea lobata
Philippe Martin
The shockingly colored Madagascar lobed argiope.
Boophis boehmei
Philippe Martin
Here, Boophis boehmei, a tree frog endemic to Madagascar.
Terpsiphone mutata
Philippe Martin
A nest of Malagasy paradise flycatchers.
Calumma gastrotaenia
Philippe Martin
The Perinet chameleon.

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