Considered by some as the 'Oscars of Photography'...

...the 'Int' Photography Awards / Lucy Awards' currently represent the most comprehensive photography contest at the international level.

Nedless to say that Micronaut feels very honored to be awarded 'International Photographer of the Year' in the category: 'SPECIAL-MICRO' professional by winning both, 1st and 2nd prize at the same time.

For the winning entry 'Cursed Knights' Micronaut is also nominated for the grand title. The name of the overall winner will be revealed on Monday, October 24th, 2011, during the annual IPA-celebration, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City.

More than a 1'000 words...

It's not a good photograph, really. But it tells you more than 1'000 words. Do you see the cool guy strolling in the background ?

That's Herbert the (...) cat - and he knows the full story!

PNAS Cover...

...a new Micronaut Cover has been released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It shows the interaction of an invisibly small pathogen (Helicobacter pylori) with human host cells.

A Surreal Creature...

...has come a long way to make it onto the 'Image of the Month' section, at Micronaut.ch

International Images for Science Exhibition...

Scientists have always needed to communicate their discoveries by pictorial documentation in the form of photographs. But despite the important role photography has played and still plays in scientific disciplines, the last exhibition of scientifically applied photographic pictures in London, dates back to 1974.

Therefore, The Royal Photographic Society has nominated 50 images from the world's leading, scientific photographers, researchers, engineers, technologists and scientists to create the 'International Images for Science' exhibition which is currently on show at Fenton House (Bath, UK).

It aims to present an overview on new technologies, which have revolutionized the field of scientific photography over the last 30 years: "We used to say: if you see it, you can photograph it. But today, you have to say: even if you don't see it, you can photograph it" says Exhibition Director Afzal Ansary, of The Royal Photographic Society... read more

Today's Backup-Skyline...

...reminds me on New York :-)

A new Miconaut cover...

...was recently published by 'The EMBO Journal' !

To illustrate the research area of muscular dystrophy, The magazine has decided to decorate their August 2011 cover with a color SEM image, depicting Mouse skeletal muscle fibres.

The image was prepared and captured by Micronaut in collaboration with Markus Ruegg's lab at the Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland... read more.