Click here to read an article and view images from the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The photo on the right won the compeition this year! It is an image of the anther of a thale cress plant. Many of the images were taken with less than 60X magnification. How does this compare the magnification of the microscopes we use in lab? What picture is your favorite? What is a micrograph?
Want to see more pictures? Click here to view winning micrographs from 1977-2008!
Want to see more pictures? Click here to view winning micrographs from 1977-2008!
wonder how small the camera was that took that one
ReplyDeletematt 7i
I think that it's amazing how a nature photographer can decide to suddenly want change, and start photographing microorganisms. It says that Charles Krebs, now 61, entered many contests like these, and he did so well that the 1st year he entered the Nikon contest, he got 6th place! Another photographer, Heiti Paves, takes pictures of embryonic neurons and plants. He thinks they are good subjects because they don't move too fast. I think that is important to any photographer, but especially photographers of microorganisms. I also think that it's amazing that such great and focused pictures were taken mostly under 60X magnification, especially through such a variety of subjects! I think the comparison between these pictures and the things we see in lab are actually very similar! My favorite picture(s) would have to be the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 13th place finishers.
ReplyDeleteThe picture reminds me of a colorful jellyfish. Do they use the same kind of microscopes we use in school to get that image?
ReplyDeleteJulia G.
this blog is very brown. It matches the dog!!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the one that came in 17th place. It actually looked like a colored pencil drawing.~Karen M. (7B)
ReplyDeleteWhy were the images from the competition so colorful when the images we got of the organisms at school were dull?
ReplyDeletetht is soooooo cool!
ReplyDeletewow, to get such a closup the microscope must be incredibly powerful
I really like the one that came in 4th place!!! It reminds me of something Lily drew last year in art! It's reeaally cool to see that!
ReplyDeleteWow, i think that is really cool, imagine if it was higher than 60x, its amazing how science and art can relate.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how you can take a picture through a microscope that is 60x it's really clear and it can show us details that we can't see usually.
ReplyDeleteI know this has little similarities to this blog but what things do scientist look at through electron microscopes? There like super powerful.
ReplyDeleteShahriyar Haider
7A
Thats awesome.
ReplyDeleteWow! I looked at some of those pics and they are AMAZING! Some of them look out of this world! How many times magnification are they?
ReplyDeleteHenrietta Dow
7F
Aweesoome.
ReplyDeletewhooaa thats soo coooll
ReplyDeletethat picture is really AWKWARD. i personally think its spooky, but its awesome because i can scare my sisters with it!
ReplyDeleteTHTS SOOOO COOL. I WANNA BE A PHOTOGRAPHER LIKE HIM I THINK ITS AMAZING. AND ITS A THALE PLANT CELL. WOW
ReplyDeleteYeah, I also want to be a photographer because you can get up close to things and preserve that moment of witnessing what most people don't know. I think that picture is really cool and it does look like a jellyfish, Julia!
ReplyDeletethose pictures are so cool! i think the first place one is the coolest. it really does look like a jellyfish.could we do that in class sometime,after all we do have microscopes, and we could bring in our cameras from home to share with the rest of the class.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures look so irrealistic. I like the third one the best, in order on the site.
ReplyDeleteI saw a video about this person whose living is taking pictures of items in an x-ray room, such as flowers, cars and other various items. I cant remember where I found it but it was a science Friday video podcast and there are many other cool videos there, so look it up (this means you Leslie!!!)
ReplyDeleteThe photograph is beautiful. Just imagine how powerful the microscope was so you would be able to see such defined images.
ReplyDeleteERIN FLYNN 7H
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html
ReplyDeleteThats amazing. Can you post an image of an actual thrale cress plant (not zoomed up like this) and the anther? I want to know how it looks like to the naked eye.
ReplyDeleteA lot of these pieces looked like an art piece!!! It's like a micro-gallery!