UW-Stevens Point photographer winner in Nikon competition
A microscope photo by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point photographer is among the winning entries in the 2011 Nikon Small World International Photomicrography Competition.
Doug Moore’s image of agatized dinosaur bone was ranked 21st out of 1,700 entries from 68 countries and is included in the Nikon Small World 2012 calendar.
With the help and encouragement of UW-Stevens Point Zoology Lab Coordinator Betsy Graham and Professor Todd Huspeni, Moore used a stereomicroscope in the biology department to photograph the unpolished slab of 150-million-year-old dinosaur bone from Utah’s Morrison Formation. In the photo, radial crystalline agate spherulites have occupied individual cells.
A former naturalist and field biologist, Moore has been a photographer at UW-Stevens Point since 1984 and has taught nature photography workshops for 30 years. An avid “rock hound,” he has served as program chair for the Heart of Wisconsin Gem & Mineral Society since 1983 and is considered among the top agate collectors in the world.
The Nikon International Small World Competition first began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Since then, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographers from the widest array of scientific disciplines.
“A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science or industry. But a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension and appreciation,” said Moore.
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