For thirty-six years Nikon has sponsored the world’s premier photomicrography competition. The Small World Competition brings together the hobbyist and professional, the novice and expert to express their scientific acumen and sheer artistry through the microscope.
The image below details the structural organization of a mosquito heart and is the winner of the 2010 competition.
The photographer, Jonas King of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biological Sciences, is involved in research to uncover methods to disrupt mosquito-borne disease transmission.
See the other winning entries at
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/gallery/year/2010/1
Evidence.
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String theory
My little brother….I taught him every single, cotton-pickin’ thing he knows.
I’ve always found these types of images fascinating. Some of them are scary as hell, when you realize that some of these “faces from hell” are little buggers that live in, on, and around us. I don’t want to think about anything being that intimate with me that looks like….well, some of these!
Some amazing pix. Tiny details on tiny organisms. The shots of crystalized stuff are very artistic, in the modern art sense.
Let me be the first to congratulate you on your first post of the year. 🙂
String theory
My little brother….I taught him every single, cotton-pickin’ thing he knows.
I’ve always found these types of images fascinating. Some of them are scary as hell, when you realize that some of these “faces from hell” are little buggers that live in, on, and around us. I don’t want to think about anything being that intimate with me that looks like….well, some of these!
Some amazing pix. Tiny details on tiny organisms. The shots of crystalized stuff are very artistic, in the modern art sense.
Let me be the first to congratulate you on your first post of the year. 🙂