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2016 Nikon Macro Photo Contest Winners Show The World Like You’ve Never Seen Before
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Nikon has just announced the winners of its annual Small World Photomicrography competition, and as you can see from these stunning photographs, bigger isn't always better.
The competition is in its 42nd year and this year over 2000 people from 70 countries entered. For those that don't know, photomicrography is the practise of taking a photograph through a microscope or similar magnifying device in order to capture the intricate details of things invisible to the human eye. From the proboscis of a butterfly and the foot of a beetle to espresso coffee crystals, the pictures below give us a whole new way of looking at world. The categories are divided into winners, honorable mentions, and images of distinction, and you can find the full list on the Nikon Small World website.
More info: Nikon Small World (h/t: demilked)
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Fourth Place. Butterfly Proboscis
Fifth Place. Front Foot (Tarsus) Of A Male Diving Beetle
Arty, while I'm willing to bow to superior knowledge, I so hope you're wrong!
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My foot is not that vibrant. My foot could never be boring to me.
Fibonnacci Sequence found even in a diving beetle.... And people doubt the existence of a personal Creator/ God?
What point does it serve to have a million pretty bugs things that live in lava the presence of disease (thanks god for giving us cancer) the million different religions. There's no god evolution made everything look like they do to adapt to there surroundings. No God cares whether we think something is pretty.
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Eyes Of A Jumping Spider
Nineteenth Place. Human Neural Rosette Primordial Brain Cells
Thirteenth Place. Poison Fangs Of A Centipede
Sixth Place. Air Bubbles Formed From Melted Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) Crystals
Eighth Place. Wildflower Stamens
Retinal Ganglion Cells In The Whole-Mounted Mouse Retina
Ninth Place. Espresso Coffee Crystals
Caudal Gill Of A Dragonfly Larva
Goatsbeard Flower
Aren't these the same flowers we pick as kids, then make a wish and blow on them?
Second Place. Polished Slab Of Teepee Canyon Agate
Seventh Place. Leaves Of Selaginella
Interesting. Because of the beautiful lighting, I would never have guessed this to be a fern.
Hippocampal Neurons
Copper Crystals
Jellyfish
Interference Patterns On A Glycerin Based Soapy Solution
Robber Fly
Gears Coupling Hind Legs Of A Planthopper Nymph
Twentieth Place. Cow Dung
Quick Fact. Those liquid filled spores you see there are the fastest objects known to man(on earth). they accellerate faster than any bullet. This is so that the bacteria can land on a fresh piece of grass, far far away from the poo so that the cow can eat it again. Clever little spore right?
Leg Of A Water Boatman
Black Elder Tree Flower Stamen
Ant Leg
Twelfth Place. Human Hela Cell Undergoing Cell Division
Sixteenth Place. 65 Fossil Radiolarians (Zooplankton) Carefully Arranged By Hand In Victorian Style
Licmophora Flabellata Diatoms
Third Place. Brain Cells From Skin Cells
Spore Capsule Of A Moss
Curvepod Fumewort (Corydalis Curvisiliqua) Seed
Fifteenth Place. Head Section Of An Orange Ladybird
For all of you future designers, great ideas for spaceship design.
Microcrystal Test For Oxycodone Using Platinic Bromide Solution
Section Of A Red Speckled Jewel Beetle
Tenth Place. Frontonia (Showing Ingested Food, Cilia, Mouth And Trichocysts)
Section Of A Begonia Flower
Deep Sea Crustacea
Mouse Hand, Showing Veins
How many pictures of mouse parts not attached have I seen eyes brains hands... sure multi coloured things are pretty but you didn't need to mutilate the poor creature
Cerebellum Brain Section Of A Rat
Viperfish
Galls Of A Mite
