BEAUTIFUL TECHNOLOGY SHOWS US THE ART OF THE INVISIBLE NOW

BEAUTIFUL MICROSCOPIC NATURE: THE NIKON PHOTOMICROGRAPHY CONTEST

Finding beauty in the invisible is an extraordinary surprise. Advances in imaging technology let us see the most incredible structures, colors, patterns, and textures in microscopic organisms.

The Nikon Photomicrography Contest is the world’s foremost showcase for photomicrography, with entries spanning a wide array of scientific disciplines.

Organisms are captured, at the cellular level, through advanced light microscopes.

The Contest, which debuted in 1975, attracts both professional and amateur photographers who photograph things impossible to see with the naked eye using a light microscope.

The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography. The video competition, entitled Small World In Motion, encompasses any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope.

International in scope, entries have been received from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

These entries are judged, by an independent panel of experts, on the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.

The awe-inspiring images not only astonish us with their beauty and technical accomplishment, but they help us to better understand life itself.

Beyond the visual wonder and glory, we get a glimpse into “conversations” happening at the cellular level. We become privy to a whole new set of signals and responses. We watch miniscule biological “machines” at work. We learn new rationale.

We find ourselves transfixed by this whole new perspective of life around us.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Rogelio Moreno Gill. Fern Sorus. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
2. Image: by Ralph Claus Grimm. Eye of a Honey Bee. Nikon Photomicrography Contest
3. Image: by Kristen Earle, Gabriel Billings, KC Huang & Justin Sonnenburg. Mouse Colon. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
4. Image: by Igor Siwanowicz. Intake of a Humped Bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), A Freshwater Carnivorous Plant. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
5. Image: by Dr. Heiti Paves. Anther of a Flowering Plant. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
6. Image: by Charles B. Krebs. Feeding Rotifers. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
7. Image: by José R. Almodóvar. Tentacles of a Carnivorous Plant. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
8. Image: by Henri Koskinen. Spore Capsule of a Moss. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
9. Image: by Dr. David Maitland. Black Witch-Hazel Leaf. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
10. Image: by Evan Darling. Starfish. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
11. Image: by Ian Gardiner. Clam shrimp. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.
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13. Image: by Frank Reiser. Suction Cups on the Diving Beetle. Nikon Photomicrography Contest.