These are really amazing, visually. They get great abstraction from the close-up-ness, and even more from the raindrops.
I would love to know what is the "special lens" that he uses. The lower one seems to have unusually deep depth of field, with normal lenses you can only get part of the insect sharp.
Update:
Andreas pointed at Helicon Remote, software which will automatically run the camera and make focus braketing, ready to be combined with Helicon Focus software. And indeed, some of their samples are macros of insects.
