digg

Facebook Connect Join Digg About

Microscopic Nature Shows Works of Art

digitalshutters.com — Beautiful photographs from The International 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition showcases microscopic photos and videos of life science subjects.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 14, 2006

Digg DudeWhat is Digg?

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted and voted on by the community. Take the Tour to learn more.

15 Comments

show profanity settings
expand all
  • Katana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Direct link to all the photos
    http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2006/index.html
  • deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Make sure you click on the honorable mentions section and check out the dog flea and the rat fetus...cool.

    Rat:
    http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2006/honorable52exlarge.html

    Dog flea:
    http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2006/honorable16exlarge.html
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are there any descriptions anywhere as to just what I'm looking at?
  • msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks Katana :)
  • KingLeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1God is truly a master artist.
  • otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1art imitates life.
    life imitates art.
  • warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Too complex. Must have been created by an almighty being.

    Note: I'm being facetious.
  • geneticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree, what is it these days with the frigging sciblogosphere. It's the new sublime, end of story. Leave the religion out of it. In case you are thinking of flaming me ;) I am pro-darwin anti-religion. Damn I mentioned it. Och well.
  • geneticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I should have looked at the images first. Pretty ***** this year I would say. Once more Deerinck wins out. It's quite a nice image - an illusion of 3D, but its just another confocal image. OK I know its technically challenging but still. Yawn. 2nd is unbeleivably bad. 3rd, 4th, 5th not great. ( I haven't watched the video though so maybe there is some truth behind the hype). 6th I like - except Iwouldn't have chosen magenta to pseudocolor. My fave is 7th place. Simple yet beautiful. Not exactly difficult micoscopy though but beautifully composed. The worsst by a long way is 10th place. The image is saturated in all channels and shows nothing aesthetically appealing at all (sorry mr. michal janes if your reading). Some of the honourable mentions were better. Odd choice. Mind you the judges are the judges I rest my case.
  • anonatron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sweet, a religious debate, who is going to tell me the earth is 5000 years old so I can get a good laugh at work?

    In the future, how about we leave our religious views out of this and just accept the fact that the pictures look really cool, huh?
  • geneticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At the bottom of each image but the WAY too scan information. The colour coding would be nice as would some details of the specimen for the non-expert.
  • kendals, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Because we all know that point mutations ADD new functional information to the genome of any species..

    Note: I'm being facetious.
  • n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2The 3rd place one has the illusion of movement...
  • mynameistim, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2It just goes to show you anything can be good looking if you zoom in close enough...but it doesn't mean that we want to see a beautiful electron micrograph of rosie o'donnell's ***** stained asshairs.
  • RedRummy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Wow!

    you got a link to that?

    /jk

  • Add a Comment

    Login or register to comment!
    Or, sign-in super fast with your Facebook account ...

© Digg Inc. 2009 — Content created and posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain | Terms of Use Updated | Privacy Policy
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.