People say . . .
• “Colorful, involving, and suffused with a sense of light and heightened awareness”
• “Oh. My. God. You should see the amazing insect shots by Rick Lieder. I’ve never seen bugs with personalities before, except in animated movies.”
• “I just visited your crystalline parallel universe. You’ve shown these creatures, not as magnified monsters, but as delicate and tiny creatures poised within luminous and abstract spaces. Good luck in your rapturous adventure.”
• “I went to visit your show at the gallery in the Detroit Zoo. I stayed in the gallery a long time. Your pictures are beautiful. I circled around to look at them again and again. And sat in the quiet and looked some more.”
• “It is like entering the world of the bug - as a bug!!!”
• “These photos, recommended by Boing Boing, point up the best, naturalistic insect photography I have ever seen.”
•”These look more like an epic sci-fi movie’s concept art than photos taken in someones backyard.”
• “Some of the most artistic photography of insects you can find.”
• “The pictures are beautiful, and I think they capture an important aspect of reality.”
- - - [ Vernor Vinge ]
• “Wow. Natural light, hand-held macro-scale photos of bugs in the backyard. Amazing use of light, depth-of-field, composition.”
• “Amazing macro-photographs by Rick Lieder take us on a spectacular travelogue tour of the world underfoot, the world where dew-drops are the size of melons, the blades of grass loom high overhead and where every neighbour seems stranger than the next.”
• “There are no dreams over at bugdreams.com, but there are plenty of cool close-up pictures of bugs. It could be fun, perhaps, to write up a dream or thought each bug might be having . . .”
• “Rick Lieder makes those bugs look like heroic, rugged individualists.”
• “Out of all the insect artwork I’ve seen, your style certainly stands out. So many people forget that the heart of science is poetry.”
- - - [ Ted Snyder - Urban Entomologist ]
• “I can only look in wonder. His larger than life-sized images pull you into their oft unseen realm.”
• “Awash in hard edged luminescent pastel colors.”
