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These incredible images are little drops of magic - capturing iconic images within a single droplet of water.
Photographer Markus Reugels spends hundreds of hours painstakingly trying to capture the impressive and beautiful images.
Mr Reugels, from Schweinfurt, Germany, can spend weeks agonising over snapping the image just at the right moment but the results are stunning.
The stuff of life: This image of the globe from space looks uncannily true to life when pictured through a droplet of water. Photographer Markus Reugels spends hundreds of hours painstakingly composing these shots. This image has been flipped upside down due to the reversing lens-like effects of the water droplet.
Another world: This image of the moon is given incredible clarity seen through the natural lens created by dripping water. Mr Reugels began taking the photos after he saw similar ones posted on an online forum. This image has also been flipped
In one of his images, an image of the earth from space sits neatly inside the water droplet.
In another, the moon is brought into focus by a single drop of water, the flat image of the background distorted into a spherical result that appears uncannily true to life.
The wealth of nations: This fleeting glimpse of a map of the world showing borders shows how the process can take flat images and make them look spherical
And in other humorous images, the Batman and Spiderman silhouettes are projected through the water.
