Administrators Appreciation Award Winners for October 2010

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:10 pm

We are proud to announce this month's winners of the Administrators Appreciation Awards!

In the Photomacrography Forums, we honor Javier Replinger for his butterfly wing scales at http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=10843 , and in the Photomicrography Forum, we honor Walter Piorkowski for his Pholcus phalangioides spider hatchlings at http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=10812 .

Let's give this month's winners a round of applause

for a job well done and thank them for their time and their talents in providing this month's front page photos.

We the Administrators want to thank each and every one of you for your many submissions -- please keep them coming in! It's wonderful to see all of your posts and many talents, and who knows, you may be one of next months winners!

The Admin Team

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:35 am

Congratulations to the winners.
Just to point a little reflexion about the macro and micro limits endless discussion: the macro awarded image was shot with a 60X objective and the micro one with a 4X.

The pioneeer Leeuwenhoek microscope (single lens) would be here a macro, and the less powerfull Hooke's compound one a micro.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:53 am

Pau wrote:the macro awarded image was shot with a 60X objective and the micro one with a 4X

Very true, and that aspect provided some amusement during Admin's discussion this month.

Newcomers to the forum may wonder why the categories are defined in the way that they are.

The short answer is that it relates primarily to how the subject is handled and illuminated. Subjects in their native environment go in the Nature gallery, subjects that are fitted into the tight constraints of a standard microscope frame go in the Microscope gallery, all other subjects go in the Technical and Studio gallery.

This organization was the product of an extended discussion of the overlaps, tradeoffs, and ambiguities of various possibilities. You can read most of it HERE.

I believe that this month set new records in both categories: for high magnification in "macro" and for low magnification in "micro". In part that reflects the membership's ever increasing skill at expanding the range of what can be done with various technologies, and in part it is just an amusing coincidence. Both aspects are most appreciated!

--Rik