Irresistible Microscope Photography

10/13/2009 | By Diana Adams

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My friend, @cheth, sent a tweet yesterday with photographs taken with a unique technique called microscope photography. After seeing this awe-inspiring photography, I had to learn more about it. It’s so fascinating; I just have to share it with you.

We’ve all seen the children’s movies where there is a whole world, a whole civilization living amongst us. Whether it’s ants, germs, little beasties, they are there and most of the time, we don’t even notice them.

Microscope photography is a hobby that allows us to bring that world to life, in vivid colors. It allows us to get a glimpse into that world that has been around us all our lives. The scientists describe this process in a much more technical format, calling it a way to bridge microbiology and photography. To me though, it seems more beautifully simplistic than that.

To take these kinds of photos, of course you’ll need a microscopic camera which has super crazy zoom power. Photography is quite an art, and experienced microscopic photographers make beautiful works of art with their photographs of spores, pollen, larva, worms, insects, embryos, plasma, and blades of grass – anything.

Once you look at some of these striking photographs, you’ll remember that it doesn’t take something really big for you to become really inspired.

The photo above is a microscopic photo of lobster eggs, taken by Tora Bardal.

This photo, entitled “Velcro Being Pulled Apart” is courtesy of Tracy E. Anderson

This photo of algae by Arlene Wechezak won 10th place in the 2009 Nikkon Small World Competition

This now famous photo of a mouse embryo at 18.5 days by Gloria Kwon won several awards in 2007

This photo of a fly (with what appears to be a mohawk) is courtesy of Solvin Zankl

Author: Diana Adams

By day, Diana is the CEO/owner of Adams Consulting Group, Inc, a technology services and business solutions consultancy firm serving the specific needs of its clients in advertising and public relations. By night, she lives and breathes by writing. After publishing a small cookbook last year, she is now working on her new masterpiece, scheduled for publishing next year. “I could write all night long and not get tired of it. I think that is when you know you’ve tapped into a true passion. Whatever that thing may be, if you could do it all day or night long, lose track of time, ‘wake up’ ten hours later, and still thirst for more, that is a passion, and I feel like I’ve found that in my writing.” Diana also spends many hours each week assisting the homeless men and women in Atlanta. You can find her on Twitter at @adamsconsulting.

9 Comments

Clement Yeung

October 14th, 2009

Ewwwww

Thanks, cool post D.

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Perri @bethebutterfly Reply:
February 13th, 2010 at 4:24 am

Ewww! You are funny Clement. Gorgeous n’est pas!?

I ironically enough met a fashion designer who uses microscopic photograph prints on her bags and clothes. So cool.

Thanks D.

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Pradeep

October 14th, 2009

very interesting pics!

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Andrea La Valleur

October 14th, 2009

creepy and cool. Great find Mz D xoxo

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Most Interesting Ideas

October 19th, 2009

Nice visuals and nature colors

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Elaine Spitz

October 20th, 2009

Really awesome!

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cheryl

October 24th, 2009

absolutely awesome!

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xRommelx

January 22nd, 2010

really cool post

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