This Dead Nettle Leaf Beetle isn’t the smallest of the top ten winners in the Small World Competition but his colours are his own (not always the case with photos taken through a microscope) about 25 different shots are stitched together for the bug to be in focus, the photographer explains on The Times slide show. source: environmentalgraffiti
The Dead Nettle Leaf Beatle on a pinhead
The winners of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 awards have just been announced, my favourite – Italian Stefano Unterthiner’s photo of a Sulawesi black-crested macaque winner in the Animal Portraits category. link: BBC
Sulawesi black crested macaque
Gerard Maynard (of 13 Gigapixel photo of Harlem fame) took to the hills this year and came back with ‘The largest stitched-together panorama available’ – A 17-gigapixel image of Yosemite National Park, that’s 96.5 gigas! If your looking for something to do try and find the man that’s waving using the Zoomify When you get fed up go to the front page where the people are pointed out. link:Wired
Yosemite National Park
After a month of silence Hubble is back up and responding again, this snapshot of two interacting galaxies was received a couple of days ago – Great come-back! link: Nasa Hubble site
Two gravitationally interacting galaxies called arp 147