Laurie says:
I’ve always loved photomicrography images. The best of them are exquisite images of an unseen world that surrounds us.
Nikon has a Small World contest every year for the best of these images. Celebrating its 40th year, the contest invites photographers and scientists to submit images of all things visible under a microscope.
There are 100 amazing images on the site. The five below are an almost random choice.
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Dr. Marco Dal Maschio
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Munich, Germany
Subject Matter:
Sagittal brain slice showing cell nuclei (cyan) and Purkinje cells (red) expressing EGFP
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José R. Almodóvar
University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Mayaguez Campus
Biology Department
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA
Subject Matter:
Mite
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Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Subject Matter:
Appendages of a common brine shrimp
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Dr. Margaret Oechsli
Nature, Interrupted
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Subject Matter:
Phosphofructokinas
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Magdalena Turzańska
University of Wroclaw
Institute of Experimental Biology
Wroclaw, Poland
Subject Matter:
Nowellia curvifolia (leafy liverwort) gametophyte
These are just a taste of the exhibition. It’s worth taking some time to contemplate a kind of beauty that is rarely seen.