Small Worlds Photomicrography 2023
October 19, 2023 5:39 PM Subscribe
It's another year of microscopic photographs! Please gaze upon these photos of the teeny and tiny. Enjoy your coffee with crystals of caffeine and sugar . Be amazed at this striking close-up of a match being struck. Wonder how slime molds can be so whimsical.
All photos are worth pursuing. Arachnophobes should avoid image 61 and especially image 25. I often use crystal photos as desktop wallpaper. There are also video entries and archives back to 1975. Previously.
All photos are worth pursuing. Arachnophobes should avoid image 61 and especially image 25. I often use crystal photos as desktop wallpaper. There are also video entries and archives back to 1975. Previously.
These are wonderful. On the match strike image, the techniques listed are “brightfield” and “image stacking.” I can’t imagine how the images could be focus stacked as the subject is in motion.
posted by bz at 7:34 PM on October 19, 2023
posted by bz at 7:34 PM on October 19, 2023
On the contrary, if anything could turn an arachnophobe into an arachnophile, it's the cheery brightness of image 61!
posted by mittens at 7:50 PM on October 19, 2023
posted by mittens at 7:50 PM on October 19, 2023
I found "Sunflower pollen on an acupuncture needle" quite striking.
posted by gwint at 7:52 PM on October 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by gwint at 7:52 PM on October 19, 2023 [2 favorites]
I feel like slime mold shouldn't make me say "awwwww" in the same tone of voice I use when I see a puppy.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:21 PM on October 19, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by jacquilynne at 8:21 PM on October 19, 2023 [1 favorite]
Warning to arachnophobes: contains a close-up of a tarantula fang. (you don't see the rest of the tarantula, but I did not wish to see any part of it, at all.)
posted by Pallas Athena at 8:27 PM on October 19, 2023
posted by Pallas Athena at 8:27 PM on October 19, 2023
Bz, there is a video version of the match here. I still don't know how it was done.
posted by Prof. Danger at 9:28 PM on October 19, 2023
posted by Prof. Danger at 9:28 PM on October 19, 2023
Holy shit, these are exquisite. That match photo...
posted by obfuscation at 6:20 AM on October 20, 2023
posted by obfuscation at 6:20 AM on October 20, 2023
Great stuff (although I thought the spark plug didn't really qualify) - thanks!
posted by Rash at 7:06 AM on October 20, 2023
posted by Rash at 7:06 AM on October 20, 2023
I also share this surprising newfound adoration for slime molds.
posted by obfuscation at 9:08 AM on October 20, 2023
posted by obfuscation at 9:08 AM on October 20, 2023
Amazing. There are some, however, that trigger some kind of evolutionary squick! in my brain.
posted by slogger at 9:57 AM on October 20, 2023
posted by slogger at 9:57 AM on October 20, 2023
I included this in the weekly newsletter I send out to the biology undergrads where I work. I'd included slime molds in the past!
posted by not_on_display at 6:45 PM on October 23, 2023
posted by not_on_display at 6:45 PM on October 23, 2023
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The slime molds ARE fantastic! And beautiful! But as you say, they really are all wonderful.
Thank you so much for posting this, Prof. Danger! I will be coming back to these images - and the archives - many times, I'm sure.
posted by kristi at 5:55 PM on October 19, 2023