“The Lost World” by Finnish photographer Mikko Lagerstedt. At a clear night at the coast of Finland, he used a couple of his photos to create this. (Source)
Around
11,000 people suffer a severe spinal cord injury. Some stemming from
car accidents, sports injury, falls especially in the elderly, gunshot
and knife wounds and many others. Your spinal cord is very important and
helps us with our motor functions, once damaged it could be a life long
or death situation.
Friend of Skunk Bear Murry Gans runs the scanning electron microscope lab at Eastfield College in Mesquite Texas. His blog is full of incredible close-up images of everyday things. The latest entry: a rose from the Eastfield campus.
Under the microscope, the velvety petals are revealed to be made of thousands of raised bumps. The leaves burst with color - and their undersides are studded with stomata that open and close to allow gases to enter the leaf. The anthers, which produce pollen, are made of strangely wrinkled cells. They remind me of fisarmoniche pasta!
You can check out more close-up images of roses (and lots of other amazing images) over on the blog.
