Ant

Photos by Gier Drange, from the Nikon Small World Photomicrography website:





Subject Matter: 
Two ants of different genus meeting on a twig


Technique:
Reflected Light, Image Stacking

Subject Matter:
Myrmica sp. (ant) carrying its larva
Technique:
Reflected Light,  Image Stacking
 (5x) (2.5x)

More from the Nikon Small World website: 


Anna Franz
University of Oxford

Subject Matter:
Ink injection into yolk sac artery of 72 hour-old chick embryo to visualize the beating heart and the vasculature

Technique:
Reflected Light


Dominik Paquet
German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases Munich & The Rockefeller University New York


Subject Matter:
Time lapse movie of transport of mitochondria in nerve cells of transgeniczebrafish with nerve cell membranes labeled in green and mitochondria labeled in blue.

Technique:
Widefield fluorescence microscopy


via http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/people/bio/geir-drange

Cities from Space (at night)

via NASA

Ant Colony Castings

Pretty  Cool:



Thanks to my brother for the link.

Geoff

*Update: Here are some more....





Reminds me of the Catacombs of Domitilla (see old post: http://blog.geoffchristou.com/2012/06/m1-8-catacombs-of-domitilla.html)

-g