'German Scientific Photographer of the Year'

Micronaut is proud to announce, that he has just received the 'German Scientific Photographer of the Year' award 2009! The awarded series of images named 'The Evolution in Flowering Plants'. Composite flower heads look like big single flowers, but they are composed of numerous individual 'florets' or single flowers. "The images explain an entirely complex process at first sight", says the author. Actually, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin, who published his groundbraking 'Theory of Evolution' in 1859. Therefore Micronaut has dedicated his series of images to the ingenious english naturalist. Link: BDW Awards 2009

honestly - it's a nice compliment...

What you see here is a cat trying madly to eradicate two waterdrops displayed on different prints. I just added reflexes to the surface of a waterdrop, scanned with an SEM, then printed out both frames and placed them on the floor to decide which frame works best... attentively observed by Cleopatra, which even checked under the sheets before finally giving up fully disappointed.

Micronaut marks the spot!

Storied places and creatures that once had been as remote as the stars are now familiar thanks to Micronaut's cutting-edge technology and ingenious coloration.

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introducing Micronaut FINE ART

Micronaut artworks are award-winning images from the invisible world. Selected works are now available in various new editions and formats !

Produced with outstanding printing technique and a passion for the detail, the brilliant prints come along neatly sealed with acryl coverglass and additionally with a backsided frame-construction, making sure everything is well prepared for the hung-up...

...learn more at: www.Micronaut.ch

Lennart Nilsson Award 2009

Micronaut has been named a runner-up for the prestigious Lennart Nilsson Award for 2009.

the naked truth about daisies

With inimitably clear vision, Sir Charles Darwin wrote in 1859 (!): "Flowers rank amongst the most beautiful productions of nature, but this beauty serves merely as a guide to insects, in order that the flower may be visited and fertilized." The image displays eight different steps during the coloration process, using the single florescence from a composite as an example. Just finished this a few minutes ago, 2:10 a.m. friday night. © Martin Oeggerli / www.Micronaut.ch, 2009. All rights reserved. 

Nature publication

todays headlines at nature.com feature a most impressive publication of Florence Clavaguera et al (Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain; Nature Cell Biology, 7 June 2009. doi:10.1038/ncb1901), with an eye-catcher by Micronaut on display!