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The Best Science Photographs of 2005

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the worth-a-thousand dept.

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."

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  1. Some Impressive Shots by RapidEye · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some of those were pretty nice shots.
    The children's stuff was even more impressive - I particularly liked the bursting baloon!

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  2. I thought the "Concepts" winner was pretty weak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Seemed to be much more art than science. Eggs falling into water to represent panspermia. At least the others had some relation to more hard science. I liked the ion channel the best. Seemed vaguely like a mushroom cloud. Had many elements of art along with hard science.

  3. Great macro camera? by Barkley44 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love trying to take close up photos, like this one http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=52264740&c ontext=set-1132411&size=l or this one http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=52265385&c ontext=set-1132411&size=l (he's actually starting to spin the web on this one) using my Sony DSC F828 (these are 50% the actual size for flickr). It's amazing the detail you can get. Anyone have their own site with closeups? What camera are you using?

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    1. Re:Great macro camera? by Vegigami · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Here's a couple I've taken with a Nikon Coolpix 950.

      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


      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

      Pretty amazing detail.

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  4. Re:Can someone explain.. by Vagrant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How I would shoot this photo:

    • An aquarium full of water
    • white background
    • light the scene from the bottom
    • drop blue ink in
    • shoot away until you get an interesting shape
    • display the photo upside down (so it looks like the ink is rising)

    Note the blobs on the bottom are air bubbles that have floated to the surface.