Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
Travelling the universe at this scale seems as important and amazing to me as travelling to a distant star. The igniting matchstick image has so much going on!<p>One cringe though ... the images all seem excessively post-processed to me. Unrealistically saturated, contrasted, sharpened, etc. The colour, especially, just seems over the top and I feel like seeing these microscopic subjects enlarged is mind-blowing enough without the postprocessing distraction which makes it seem <i>less</i> real.<p>Anyways, amazing images! Thanks!