Microscopes for art

Along my travels on the interwebz I have discovered yet another cool form of scientific art.  It turns out that people are using microscopes to look at very small stuff and then simply taking pictures of them.  It might not sound like a form of art but I assure you that the images they collect are quite stunning.  They are colorful, complex, and wild pictures of stuff so small that they can only be seen by instruments that man has created.

In specific there is a Japanese artist named Susumu Nishinaga who happens to be extremely talented in this line of art.  I really enjoy his work with humans more than anything.  He has taken the task of getting extreme close ups of blood vessels, veins, arteries, and other small pieces of the human body.  But some images I really like are these:

These are all pathways for blood in the body.  But the photos are taken at such a small scale it is somewhat hard to believe.  This man is extremely talented with a microscope and camera combo.

The coolest part is that none of this would be possible without advanced technology.  The cameras being used we only developed recently and the microscopes have been around for a while but getting them to be able to photograph on such a small scale is an extraordinary feat of men.