Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. John Hart

Dr. John Hart of the University of Colorado in Boulder created this image of a crystallized melt of sulfur and acetanilide.(20th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Cameron Johnson

This image shows a wistar rat retina outlining the retinal vessel network. (19th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Gerd Guenther

The picture shows a rare soap film pattern, just a few seconds, before the film collapses. "The ball-shape patterns, in my opinion, are the most aesthetical ones," said organic farmer Gerd Guenther, Düsseldorf, Germany, who took the photograph.(18th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Charles Krebs

This image depicts the eye and antenna base of a Ichneumon wasp.(17th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: James Nicholson

This live specimen is of an Orange Fungia (mushroom coral). (13th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Robert Markus

Dr. Robert Markus took this picture of Mirabilis jalapa (four o'clock flower) stigma with pollen.(16th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Ralf Wagner

The square and rectangular patterns are derived from Divaricatic acid from Evernia divaricata (lichen), recrystallized from acetone.(15th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Stephen Lowry

These spiral vessels are part of a banana plant stem. (14th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Gregory Rouse

It's not a jellyfish. It's a juvenile bivalve mollusc. (12th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Paul D. Andrews

This image shows Telophase HeLa (cancer) cells expressing Aurora B-EGFP (green). (11th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Yanping Wang

This image is a tasty visualization of crystallized soy sauce. (10th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Duane Harland

A flea (Ctenocephalides canis) who might or might not be deep in thought. (9th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Honorio Cocera-La Parra

The mineral cacoxenite bears a striking resemblance to a Koosh ball in this picture. (8th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Yongli Shan

This is an image of an endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibers, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei. (7th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. John Huisman

This is a close-up of a living red seaweed specimen (Martensia sp). (6th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Viktor Sykora

Despite the misleading name, bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is actually a plant originating from this stunning seed. (5th place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Riccardo Taiariol

This image of a wasp nest, magnified 10 times and using stereomicroscopy, was taken by Riccardo TaiariolLa Spezia, Italy. (4th Place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Oliver Braubach

Peering deep into a Zebrafish brain, Oliver Braubach takes this image of its olfactory bulbs. (3rd place)

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Dr. Hideo Otsuna

This 5-day-old zebrafish head, when magnified 20 times, took 2nd place.

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Amazing Photos: The Little Things in Life

Credit: Jonas King

Jonas King took this stunning image of a mosquito heart, magnified 100 times and using fluorescence technology. The result took home 1st place in the 2010 competition.