Super Small: Help Choose the Year’s Best Microscope Photos

[pvg photography]

<p>Some amazing photographic work using microscopes!<br>

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/nikon-small-world-vote-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher</p>

[richardsperry]

And PhotoShop.

 

Those are black and white colorized.

[jeff_livacich]

<p>How do you know that, Richard? They're not taken with electron microscopes. The notes on the first image say "autofluorescence". The notes on another say it's stained and also state, "epi-fluorescence".</p>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Right, as Jeff points out most of these were definitely not colorized but result directly from the microscopy techniques employed - except perhaps the bladderwort trap where the orange/magenta tones are not immediately explained by the darkfield illumination employed (compare with <a href="http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/118407/view">similar shot here</a> for example).<br>

Which doesn't mean there was no serious computing power behind the three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy">confocal</a> images - just that the computing happened at the stages of initial point-by-point acquisition within each plane and then flattening across all the acquired focal planes.</p>