Photography Thailand Forum

[Marc Schultz]

All these pictures are from a book called "Microcosmos" created by Brandon Brill from England. This book includes many images via an electron microscope of insects, human body parts and household items.

A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip:



The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip:



Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin:



The surface of a strawberry:



Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue:



Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells:



The nylon hooks and loops of velcro:



Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains:



The weave of a nylon stocking:



The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth:



The head of a mosquito:



A human head louse clinging to a hair:



The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula:



Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades:



Cigarette paper:



The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail:



The head of a Romanesco cauliflower:



The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus:



Mushrooms spores:



A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant:



Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube:



A daisy bud:



Calcium phosphate crystal:



The shell of a Foraminiferan (a kind of protoazoan dwelling in water):

[Gregg Spradling]

Beautiful images. Although I have a sudden desire to brush my teeth and wash my eye brows.