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The Best Science Photographs of 2005 68
Hogwash McFly writes "This year's Visions Of Science Photographic Awards have honored several amazing snapshots in the realm of science photography. Photographs were each judged in one of ten categories, and winning images range from a sinister cancer cell to the use of eggs to illustrate panspermia. The full list of winners and runners up is featured on the official website, and there are larger versions of the winners over at the Beeb and at National Geographic."
Some Impressive Shots (Score:2, Interesting)
The children's stuff was even more impressive - I particularly liked the bursting baloon!
Re:Some Impressive Shots (Score:1)
Nilsson? (Score:5, Informative)
We all know (Score:3)
I thought the "Concepts" winner was pretty weak (Score:1, Interesting)
Art is a good way to explain... (Score:4, Insightful)
Art is all about expressing ideas or concepts visually-- Certain portions of the world of science, especially quantum mechanics [symmetrymagazine.org], are just too weird for us to capture in visual display. Perhaps it will take someone like Dali [dali-gallery.com] or Escher [mcescher.com] to provides us with a view of the quantum world.
Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Great... (Score:2, Funny)
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge (Score:5, Informative)
Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
strictly Parade Magazine material, no insight (Score:3, Funny)
Skinner:
[quietly to Miss Hoover] Get the ribbon ready.
[pulls sheet off]
Oh...a little...sterile...no _real_ insight. What do you
think, Miss Hoover?
Hoover: Ehh.
Skinner: Ooh, now we're into the dregs. Here's Ralph Wiggum's entry.
[pulls sheet off]
Pre-packaged "Star Wars" characters, still in their display
box? Are those the limited-edition action figures?
Ralph: What's a diorama?
Skinner: Why it's Luke, and Obi-Wan, and my favorite, Chewie! They're
all here! [to Miss Hoover] What do you think?
Hoover: [bored] I think it's lunch time.
Skinner: We have a winner!
Mirror, Mirror (Score:2)
test, please disregard this post (Score:2)
Photographs? More like Photoshops (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Photographs? More like Photoshops (Score:1, Informative)
The "prep" involved touching it up with Photoshop. Disappointing to say the least.
Re:Photographs? More like Photoshops (Score:4, Informative)
What doesn't go together, IMO, is photographic awards and Photoshop! The "enhancement" wasn't even limited to coloured SE-micrographs, there are even pure photo montages and screendumps!
It's a "purdy picshurs" award.
Re:Photographs? More like Photoshops (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Photographs? More like Photoshops (Score:1)
Artificially colored (Score:5, Informative)
The contest seems to be public relations advertising. It is supported by [visions-of-science.co.uk] Novartis, a pharmaceutical company that perhaps should not be trusted completely: Kindness, or maximizing shareholder value? [slashdot.org]
Re:Artificially colored (Score:3, Insightful)
Most of the photographs in your biology and neuroscience textbooks are artificially colorized [what, you think that when your brain gets very active, it also gets very red? =) ].
Re:Artificially colored (Score:2)
Yes. Brain activity requires increased blood flow to support its metabolism. This actually does change the color of the brain (more red in fact) and allows near infrared imaging through the skull to actually detect this change in color which can be correlated with activity.
Re:Artificially colored (Score:2)
Re:Artificially colored (Score:2)
the images are then colorized, usually usi
Re:Artificially colored (Score:2)
Then it's art, not science. (Score:2)
The implication is that people wouldn't be interested in straight science.
Re:Then it's art, not science. (Score:2)
The implication is that people wouldn't be interested in straight science.
True, but scientific photos are often colorized or frequency-shifted for valid scientific reasons. The human eye and the brain behind it are very good as spotting complex patterns in visual data. So mapping data into a 2-D image in the human visual range can be a fast way to spot the interesting features (that may then be analyzed in more detail by software).
Thus, the
The real beauty of science is the thinking. (Score:2)
The whole thing is probably designed by a public relations agency to get free publicity for Novartis. Probably there is no one at the P.R. agency who has any interest in or respect for scientific investigation. However, that theory means that Novartis is out o
Re:Artificially colored (Score:2)
In fact, most powerful microscopes use a computer as an interface for viewing. The application also displayed artifically colored images to display informa
Re:That's not all (Score:2)
"It looks like you're trying to take an award winning science photograph. Would you like some help?"
Slashdotted. (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted. (Score:1)
Great macro camera? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Great macro camera? (Score:2)
Got any camera suggestions under the $1,000 range to take pictures like that? Thanks!
Re:Great macro camera? (Score:2, Informative)
However, don't expect to be taking pictures of things like the peppercorn & sea salt, or the mosquitos, or any of the ones that involved polarized light as seen on the website, those were taken with the aid of a microscope. Also, look on the
Re:Great macro camera? (Score:2)
Re:Great macro camera? (Score:2, Interesting)
This is one of the tiny snails that appear on my sidewalk after it rains. I was using the silver dollar as a platform.
http://members.iglou.com/mbl/snail0.jpg [iglou.com]
This is a very small flower I snapped in Dana Meadows which is just before you leave Yosemite National Park through the Tioga Pass gate. (I didn't know the small beetle on the left was there til I saw the picture.)
http://members.iglou.com/mbl/tinyblue.jpg [iglou.com]
Pretty amazing detail.
Re:Digg it (Score:2)
Face it,
What!? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MOD DOWN (Score:1, Troll)
Can someone explain.. (Score:1)
Re:Can someone explain.. (Score:3, Interesting)
How I would shoot this [visions-of-science.co.uk] photo:
Note the blobs on the bottom are air bubbles that have floated to the surface.
Re:Can someone explain.. (Score:2)
and the title of most disgusting picture ever? (Score:1)
that's just plain nasty I could of gone my whole life not knowing this, and been all the happier for it. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
My favorite (surface tension) (Score:1)
This [visions-of-science.co.uk] is my favorite, the deformation of the water due to a clip's weight.
It made me remember something... when you hold a small thing (like a clip) very near your eye (so it blurs), the images you see in the background bends near the borders of the object... why?
Re:My favorite (surface tension) (Score:1)