{"id":15701,"date":"2011-10-10T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:30:44","slug":"nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/10\/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2011\/10\/nikon_small_world_photomicrogr.html\">this Big Picture post<\/a> I&#8217;ve learned about this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/\">Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition<\/a>.  As with any micro photography, the images are captivating and confusing.  Half of them are so mesmerizing you&#8217;d want to use them for a wallpaper.  And another half are so scary that you&#8217;d worry going to sleep for the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/10\/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2011\/lobe-coral\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral.jpg?fit=990%2C633&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"990,633\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1317821504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lobe coral\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral.jpg?fit=660%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral-500x319.jpg?resize=500%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lobe coral\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral.jpg?resize=500%2C319&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lobe-coral.jpg?w=990&amp;ssl=1 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via this Big Picture post I&#8217;ve learned about this year&#8217;s Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. 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And another half are so scary that you&#8217;d worry going to sleep for the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/10\/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-competition-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[2239,841,2939],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-microscope","tag-nature","tag-nikon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9636,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/02\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":15701,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-11-01 BOB MARTIN -- Sports Photographer, Award winning sports photography specialising in action photography and features Tagged as: flash gallery images photography photos pictures portfolio sports Toogle Image Search Tagged as: api ascii cool google images pictures Woogle -- Words in pictures Tagged\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29036,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/27\/cyprus-shipping-photo-competition\/","url_meta":{"origin":15701,"position":1},"title":"Cyprus shipping photo competition","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are a photography enthusiast in Cyprus, Cyprus Mail has some exciting news for you: The deputy ministry of shipping has launched a photo competition in cooperation with the Cyprus Marine Club and the support of the Cyprus Photographic Society. 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