Saturday, November 1, 2014

Microphotographs of note


The annual Nikon microphotograph contest winners have been published.  These results are always worth examination, as they are frequently amazing, and not something that most of us see very often.  If at all.

20 incredible photos of a world too tiny to see

I liked these two in particular:

This might look like the nasty end of a proboscis, but in reality it's just the bottom of a caterpillar leg, which allows the caterpillar to hang on to almost anything:






















And these are brine shrimp appendages.  I don't know what they're good for, but they sure are pretty.


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