The Most Beautiful Thing in the World Today: Plants Up Close

by Natasha Wolff | March 26, 2014 10:25 am

Things get other-worldly when you zoom in, which is how Stefan Eberhard shot this thale cress flower (pictured right). On a microscopic scale, the plant’s reproductive organs—the green represents pollen grains ready for dispersal—are bizarrely beautiful. This image and others are the winners of the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards[1], a program that celebrates striking imagery captured for scientific and medical use. The overall winner is a CT scan-constructed image rendered in 3D depicting a mechanical heart pump in the chest of a patient awaiting a heart transplant. See it and more here[2].

Not a flower but “agricultural sludge” by Eberhardt Josué Friedrich Kernahan and Enrique Rodríguez Cañas

 

Lily flower bud by Spike Walker

 

Astrantia flowers by Dr Henry Oakeley

More:

Dispatches from Down Under[3]
Bejeweled Wooden Furniture[4]
A Cave in Vietnam[5]

Endnotes:
  1. 2014 Wellcome Image Awards: http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org
  2. here: http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2014/plant-reproductive-parts
  3. Dispatches from Down Under: http://dujour.com/article/adrian-gaut-beautiful-melbourne-australia-instagram-photos
  4. Bejeweled Wooden Furniture: http://dujour.com/article/vibrational-furniture-by-danna-weiss-beautiful-tables
  5. A Cave in Vietnam: http://dujour.com/article/vietnam-son-doong-cave-photos

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