FEI announces that Martina Dienstleder has won the grand prize in the 2011 FEI Owner Image Contest for her entry "Microcanyon," an electron microscope photo of a stress fracture in a steel pipe.
Martina Dienstleder Winning 2011 FEI Owner Image "Microcanyon" of a steel stress fracture: Copyrighted by FEI.
"Microcanyon" Captures Grand Prize
FEI is proud to announce that Martina Dienstleder of the Institute for Electron Microscopy at the Graz University of Technology has been awarded the grand prize in the 2011 FEI Owner Image Contest for her entry "Microcanyon". The image was selected by FEI experts from the three monthly finalists, including "Alveoli" by Oliver Meckes and "Lamnacarus Ornatus" by Angelika Reichmann.
Overall, the entries were judged on their aesthetic appeal, application and scientific relevance, and overall creativity. Martina's entry shows a micro-crack in steel after bending tests, and the resulting image inspired her to colorize the micrograph, creating an amazing likeness of a canyon. The image was colorized by colleague Manuel Paller. Read more about Martina below.
FEI has prominent copyright notices on all photos, so I think it is ok to show you these two slides reporting the winners they announced in press releases. But, to "see all of the amazing images submitted to the 2011 FEI Owner Image Contest" I'd feel more comfortable sending you over to their website. It is well worth the trip.
2011 FEI Owner Image Contest
Or, by-pass FEI website and go to the official FEI serires on Yahoo Flicker where you can find the 60 top photos for each of three months. This site is worth a HOTLIST folks. Whenever the pie fights get too bitter come here to recharge your soul, with astonishing and amazing science photos that will leave you imagination throbbing with pleasure. Then you can come back here and bash you enemies with much greater vigor! They will not know where you find the energy and inspiration. Bwa, ha, ha!
Best Immediate Photo Catalogs for 180 submissens over three months, on Yahoo Flicker
Also, the authors have posted some on yahoo flicker elseshere, as well.
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Lamnacarus ornatus, Forepart of a mite, coloured by Margit Wallner Courtesy of Angelika Reichmann on Yahoo Flicker
Angelika Reichmann has put her picture up on Yahoo Flicker with a bunch of others.
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Grand Prize Winner Martina Dienstleder, with Manuel Paller, As far as I can tell, she, her friend, and her microscope are copyrighted by FEI as well.
FEI tells us about Martina Dienstleder.
Martina Dienstleder was born in Graz in 1976. In 1993 she joined the Institute for Electron Microscopy at the Graz University of Technology to start her training as a chemical laboratory assistant. Since 1997 she has a fixed position with the laboratory staff at Graz Centre for Electron Microscopy, where she has specialized in mechanical, chemical and physical preparation of samples for Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy. Apart from sample preparation she has also been trained as a TEM operator. After installation of the FEI Nova 200 NanoLab at the FELMI-ZFE in 2003 she focused on sample preparation and analysis with the Focused Ion Beam unit and on advancement of various TEM sample preparation methods. Her major field of activity is the fabrication of TEM samples for industry customers and scientific investigations (slogan: "the more difficult the better").
Martina is the mother of a twelve year old son, and is a keen dog fancier and a passionate motorcyclist. Martina likes to travel the world whenever her challenging position leaves her enough time for it. Martina's grand prize, a Nikon D7000 camera
I can't recommend enough that you take a break from you busy day and go look at a few dozen of the most amazing electron microscope pictures you may ever see.
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PS My hope is that by labelling this photos, with full attribution and links to their sources on both the FEI press release, as well as the Yahoo Flicker sites, which say photos provided "courtesy of their authors" I am withing Fair Use Guidelines. But, since I haven't seen in policy for photos, if I am mistaken, I hope someone will give me a heads up before the lawyers get here. If so the Hounddog will be making the rest of my reports from the underground, on the lamb. Maybe this will boost my ratings?
Woof, woof!
HoundDog and Friend Teddy, on the road, fleeing from copyright lawyers