'The World's Smallest Art Prize'
"Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye." The winning images in the 2009 Nikon Small World Competition reveal the beauty of fish scales or a thistle stem in extreme close-up. New Scientist 10/08/09 (slide show)

Posted October 8, 2009 09:58 PM