The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Winners

The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition lets us see beyond the capabilities of our unaided eyes. Almost 2000 entries from 70 countries vied for recognition in the 37th annual contest, which celebrates photography through a microscope. Scientists and photographers turned their attention on a wide range of subjects, sometimes magnifying them over 2000 times their original size [via Boston Big Picture]

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"Portrait of a green lacewing larva" at 20x ~Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

 An ant head magnified ten times and photographed by Dr. Jan Michels

A marine copepod at 10x magnification imaged by Dr. Jan Michels

 A water flea and green algae ~ Dr. Ralf Wagner 

 The double compound eyes of a male St. Mark's fly ~ Dr. David Maitland

  Clausidium female with egg sacs ~ Dr. Terue Kihara

The embryonic pectoral fin of a whitespotted bamboo shark ~ Dr. Andrew Gillis

  Dr. John H. Brackenbury captured a water droplet containing a pair of mosquito larvae.

 Bladderwort bladder magnified 40x by Jose R. Almodovar 

 A freshwater shrimp eye and head shot ~ Jose R. Almodovar 

 Cancer cells at 300x  ~ Thomas Deerinck

 Graphite-bearing granulite from Kerala, India in polarized light at 2.5x magnification by Dr. Bernardo Cesare

 A mouse nerve fiber layer on a retinal flatmount at 40x magnification by Gabriel Luna

 Cracked gallium arsenide solar cell films at 50x magnification Dennis Callahan
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 Intrinsic fluorescence in Lepidozia reptans (liverwort) at 20x magnification 

 A blade of grass at 200x magnification by Dr. Donna Stolz of the University of Pittsburgh

Photographer Profile ~ Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck November 23, 1944) is a German fashion photographer and filmmaker.

Lindbergh was born in Poland. and grew up in Duisburg. He left school at the age of 15 and started work as a window dresser at a local department store. After his military service he started taking art classes in Berlin, but left soon after and hitched his way around the South of France, Spain and Moroccco. He later joined the painting class of Günther C. Kirchberger and had his first personal art exhibition in 1969, but then he began photography in 1971 as an apprentice to Hans Lux and established himself as an advertising photographer. Following the publication of his first fashion photographs by Stern magazine Lindbergh moved to Paris in 1978 to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz as well as other projects with Karl Lagerfeld, Daryl Hannah, Giorgio Armani and more. His photographs have been published by magazines such as Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. He also photographed Céline Dion for her perfume ad.

His first documentary, Models: The Film, with Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, and Stephanie Seymour was shot in New York in 1991.

His first book, "10 Women by Peter Lindbergh", a black and white portfolio of ten top contemporary models was published in 1996 and had sold more than 100,000 copies as of 2008.

In both 1995 and 1997 he was named Best Photographer at the International Fashion Awards in Paris. In 1995 he became an Honorary Member of the German Art Directors Club. In 1996 he received the Raymond Loewy Foundation Award. In 2005 he was awarded the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Photography.

He has twice shot the Pirelli calendar, in 1996 and 2002. The latter, which featured actresses instead of models for the first time and was shot on the back lot of Universal Studios, was described by Germaine Greer as "Pirelli's most challenging calendar yet."

He is considered to be one of the world's preeminent fashion photographers, particularly in black and white, and is credited with helping create the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s. He prefers his model to have minimal make-up and a simple hairstyle. Director Wim Wenders is an admirer of his work. [via wiki]