Rare images beyond the naked eye | Yahoo! Green

Rare images beyond the naked eye Yahoo! Green:By Trystan L. Bass and Lori Bongiorno
Posted Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:25pm PDT
The annual Small World Photomicrography Competition sponsored by Nikon aims to showcase 'the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope.'
Indeed, the 2010 winning photographs reveal what's not seen or visible to the human eye. While many of the stunning images were taken to advance science, some are just simply beautiful to look at.
The following photos were amongst this year's 20 winners, but you can see hundreds of gorgeous photos featured from previous years as well. Some winning photographs are on display at museums across the country. You can also learn how to create your own masterpieces.



(Photo: Dr. Paul D. Andrews, University of Dundee, Scotland)


Cancer
Above is a picture of two human cancer cells sitting next to each other right before they're about to divide into four cells. They're derived from the now famous 'HeLa' line of cancer cells, which were taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 and used for medical research without her permission. 'Understanding how cells divide is critical to understanding how cancerous cells multiply and take over,' according to Dr. Andrews."

Light Painting

Audubon Photography Competition brings out wild side » Evansville Courier & Press

"Banded Coral Shrimp," by Allen Campbell Henderson won first place in the Audubon Photography Competition.

"Hummingbird and Trumpet Flower," by Mike Matthews of Louisville took second place.

Audubon Photography Competition brings out wild side » Evansville Courier & Press: "In celebration of John James Audubon’s arrival in Henderson 200 years ago, an Audubon Photography Competition was conducted by the Audubon Committee, the Friends of Audubon and the Ohio Valley Art League.
There are 30 photos in an exhibit at Henderson County Public Library through Oct. 1. The top three winners are pictured here.
“As a nature photographer, I pay particular attention to technical difficulty, composition, exposure, animal behavior and creativity in judging wildlife photographs,” said juror Al Perry.
“The first-place image of a colorful underwater crab in its natural habitat gives us a view few of us will ever experience. The second-place image of a hummingbird is an example of technical excellence in exposure, action, focus and color. The third-place image of a young person and manatee is an image with universal appeal,” the juror said in his statement.
The Ohio Valley Art League board has voted to have the exhibit again next year.
Photographers accepted into this year’s exhibit are: Emily Mabee, Miriam Key, Gene Stinson, Polly Mulligan, Stephen Chandler, Susie Bailey, Allen Campbell and Mike Lawrence of Henderson; Lynn Smith and Bonita Gentry of Dixon; Tim Sandefur of Corydon; Natalie Evans of Morganfield; T.J. Byrd and Daniel Rodenberg of Evansville; Steven Young of Lexington; Mike Matthews of Louisville; Linda Martin of Elkville, Ill.; Mitchell Erwin of Olney, Ill.; and Ian Schneller of Waialua, Hawaii."

Five Photojournalists Win Getty Images' Latest Grants

Stefano De Luigi won for his project "TIA-This is Africa," a series of photo essays on various human crises affecting different regions in Africa. He will use his grant money to focus next on Sudan, Chad, and Darfur to document refugees' lives in what he describes as 'one of the worst civil wars of the whole continent and to document teh birth (hopefully) of a new modern state.'"

Five Photojournalists Win Getty Images' Latest Grants: "Five photojournalists from different parts of the world have each been awarded $20,000 from Getty Images annual Grants for Editorial Photography program to continue working on their respective photo projects.

This year's winners are: Stefano De Luigi of Italy for “TIA – This is Africa”; Miquel Dewever-Plana of France for “The Other War”; Edwin Koo of Singapore for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”; Darcy Padilla of San Francisco, for “The Julie Project”; and Jerome Sessini of France, for “So Far from God, Too Close to America.”

The judging panel— which included The New York Times director of photography Kathy Ryan; SVA's photography department chair Stephen Frailey; photojournalist Eugene Richards; director general of Visa pour l’Image Jean-Francois Leroy; and senior photo editor Jamie Wellford of Newsweek—had to make their selections from 260 applications and proposals from professional photojournalists, as well as from 48 student proposals.

The four student winners, all of whom are studying photojournalism in the United States, will each receive $5,000 from Getty. They are: Bryan Anselm of Western Kentucky University; Julie Glassberg of the International Center of Photography in New York City; Julia Marie Rendleman of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; andParis Visone of The Art Institute of Boston.

Getty Images' Grants for Editorial Photography program was established in 2005 to enable emerging and established photojournalists to pursue projects of personal and editorial merit.

More information, as well galleries of the winning portfolios, can be found at www.gettyimages.com/grants."

1rst Try at Light Painting

Today in class we worked on light painting. It took me a while to figure out how to work the camera and hopefully I will be able to vastly improve this technique in the future. I'm pretty excited about this project and can't wait to jump right in! Here are some of my test shots.

Visions of Light

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