Nikon Small World: The beauty of the world seen through the microscope

in photography •  7 years ago 

With the help of the microscope, mankind has the power to bring out a new world. To honor micscopic photos and the world they reveal, the Nikon Small World photo contest annually awards the most amazing images.

This year, more than 2,000 photos have been featured in the competition, of which the jury selected 20 winners. The images were chosen based on complexity, subject, but also beauty. According to Science Alert, the first-ranked image has a keratin structure in the human skin cell.

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Credit: Dr. Bram van den Broek, Andriy Volkov, Dr. Kees Jalink, Dr. Nicole Schwarz şi Dr. Reinhard Windoffer/Nikon Small World

The second is the image of the seed of a dandelion.

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Credit: Dr. Havi Sarfaty/Nikon Small World

And the third place is an image that remembers the famous Pac-Man game. The photo shows a colony of volovox alveoli that opens.

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Credit: Jean-Marc Babalian/Nikon Small World
source:descopera.ro

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These pictures are insane.

The extremelly small is, for me, just as intriguing or maybe even more intriguing than the extremely big!

As you go down in size, you start to see parallelisms with what you see as you go up, and that is truly one of life's biggest mysteries.