Wellcome Image Awards 2012
The Wellcome Image Awards 2012 winners are here, stunning as always. I think my favorite is the image of caffeine crystals shown above (by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy). The Arabidopsis seedling, mothfly and bacterial biofilm look really cool as well, but they’re all worth checking out–here is the winners’ gallery. [Wellcome Image Awards 2012 | […]
A new website to share scientific images
As part of our social media class at UC Santa Cruz, a couple of classmates and I came up with the idea to create a site where scientists could easily share striking scientific images. (All of us used to work in lab and take pretty scientific photos that we didn’t know where to share.) The […]
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture. Ok, there’s nothing scientific about these Esquire covers, but they’re certainly great examples of of how powerful images. I just found it interesting how these covers capture so many iconic moments and eras – enough that even though I wasn’t around at […]
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation. 2009 Photo Contest Honorable Mentions – National Wildlife Federation. Just came across these photos of the winners and honorable mentions from the National Wildlife Federation‘s 2009 photo contest. See the links above for all the images, there’s 32 winners (across several categories) and 60 honorable mentions, […]
Photo Gallery of Cool New Science Images
As I’ve previously noted, I like cool, preferably scientific, images. I really enjoyed taking pretty microscope pictures as a graduate student, and I’ve been enjoying working on the Megapixels section of Popular Science and the Bull’s-Eye section of Science Illustrated, as well as for the various photo galleries I created for PopSci.com or posted about […]
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition 2009
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition | Image Gallery – 2009. Since I like pretty scientific pictures, I’m posting a link to this Olympus Imaging competition from late 2009. I recently discovered it, and the site has a lot of great images from this year’s competition as well as from the past few years.
Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science
Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science. Popular Science has built a name for itself for having some striking visuals, and this web gallery collects a whole bunch of amazing scientific images from the print magazine and their website. A must-see for anyone who likes pretty pictures! Includes pictures from some of […]
Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 | Popular Science
Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 | Popular Science. Another gallery that I made for PopSci.com, with the best medical images from this year’s Wellcome Awards. A stunning collection of images which features, among other things, aspirin, cancer cells, skin, bone, and intestine, that all look unexpectedly artistic. Follow the link to […]
Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science
Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science. A gallery of beautiful pictures from the latest edition of Nikon’s Small World photography competition, which showcases the best photographs taken through microscopes. Amina, another intern, and I created the gallery and did the write-ups, was fun seeing all the images in beautiful high-res…Again, the […]
NASAs Messenger Flyby Captures Never-Before-Seen Images of Mercury | Popular Science
NASAs Messenger Flyby Captures Never-Before-Seen Images of Mercury | Popular Science. Fascinating new pictures of Mercury taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft. Another little write-up for PopSci.com, follow the link above to read and see all the images.