Rare images beyond the naked eye

[BABY1]

Can you guess what theses pics are? Answers to come later.


The annual Small World Photomicrography Competition sponsored by Nikon aims to showcase "the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope."
Indeed, the 2010 winning photographs reveal what's not seen or visible to the human eye. While many of the stunning images were taken to advance science, some are just simply beautiful to look at.
The following photos were amongst this year's 20 winners, but you can see hundreds of gorgeous photos featured from previous years as well. Some winning photographs are on display at museums across the country. You can also learn how to create your own masterpieces.

[skinnyman]

Re: Rare images beyond the naked eye

pretty amazing how small, but complex, some things are.

Makes you wonder and put things into perspective........like...are we being looked at under a Microscope by some other from of life....

Ok and yes i have done various hallucinogens in my life and no i'm not on anything now

[Doink the clown]

Re: Rare images beyond the naked eye

The last pic is whats going on in Dave's mind.

[BABY1]

Re: Rare images beyond the naked eye

The first pic is :

Cancer

Above is a picture of two human cancer cells sitting next to each other right before they're about to divide into four cells. They're derived from the now famous "HeLa" line of cancer cells, which were taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 and used for medical research without her permission. "Understanding how cells divide is critical to understanding how cancerous cells multiply and take over," according to Dr. Andrews.

The second is:

Soap film

You can see colors of soap bubbles with the naked eye, but the colors are so much more intense and beautiful under the microscope. The photo above was taken right before the soap film collapsed. Guenther is an organic farmer in Dusseldorf, Germany, who takes microphotos as part of his work -- to get a closer look at plants -- and for the fun of it.

and the third is:

Wasp eye

Krebs is a professional photographer who specializes in small insects. Here he shows a Ichneumon wasp compound eye magnified 40 times.

[horsepwr]

Re: Rare images beyond the naked eye

way cool.
The 2nd one is an insect eye.