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Hidden Beauty: Top images of 2022 Nikon Small World photo contest
IN SIGHT
Hidden Beauty: Top images of 2022 Nikon Small World photo contest
Perspective by Bronwen Latimer
Associate Director of Photography
November 2, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
The fluorescent hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko, highlighting the nerves in a cyan color and the bones, tendons, ligaments, skin and blood cells in a range of warmer colors. (Grigorii Timin & Dr. Michel Milinkovitch/Courtesy of Nikon Small World)
The alveoli in breast tissue that produce milk are wrapped in contractile myoepithelial cells that help to push the milk during feeding. (Dr. Caleb Dawson/Courtesy of Nikon Small World)
Let’s get down to basics: There is life. And then there are the microscopic powerhouses called cells that make life possible.
Without them, there is no us. Scientists know this and devote their careers to understanding how cells function so we can benefit. Diseases can be cured. Technology can advance. Life can be understood.
Most of the time, this essential work happens inside a laboratory, under a microscope, away from the headlines. Once a year, however, four judges invited by Nikon assemble to judge entries in a contest dedicated to photomicrography, images that go in so close to understanding cells.
Some of the photographs help scientists break through barriers, such as realizing that zebra fish have lymphatic vessels in their skulls, which that help scientists understand neurological systems. Others simply surprise.
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By Bronwen Latimer
Bronwen Latimer is an Associate Director of Photography at The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/belatimer
Hidden Beauty: Top images of 2022 Nikon Small World photo contest
Perspective by Bronwen Latimer
Associate Director of Photography
November 2, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
The fluorescent hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko, highlighting the nerves in a cyan color and the bones, tendons, ligaments, skin and blood cells in a range of warmer colors. (Grigorii Timin & Dr. Michel Milinkovitch/Courtesy of Nikon Small World)
The alveoli in breast tissue that produce milk are wrapped in contractile myoepithelial cells that help to push the milk during feeding. (Dr. Caleb Dawson/Courtesy of Nikon Small World)
Let’s get down to basics: There is life. And then there are the microscopic powerhouses called cells that make life possible.
Without them, there is no us. Scientists know this and devote their careers to understanding how cells function so we can benefit. Diseases can be cured. Technology can advance. Life can be understood.
Most of the time, this essential work happens inside a laboratory, under a microscope, away from the headlines. Once a year, however, four judges invited by Nikon assemble to judge entries in a contest dedicated to photomicrography, images that go in so close to understanding cells.
Some of the photographs help scientists break through barriers, such as realizing that zebra fish have lymphatic vessels in their skulls, which that help scientists understand neurological systems. Others simply surprise.
{snip}
Gift Article
https://wapo.st/3FVV3nJ
By Bronwen Latimer
Bronwen Latimer is an Associate Director of Photography at The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/belatimer
