Entry Title: " Love is in the Air"
Name: Martin Oeggerli, Switzerland
Category: Professional, Micro


Entry Description: Pollen belong to the most fascinating and diverse forms of life on our planet. They are the male sperm of plants and reveal beautiful surface structure and colors. These color images have been published in the National Geographic in Dec. 2009. Altogether, it took me 3 years to collect and produce the images.

Martin Oeggerli aka Micronaut is an internationally recognized scientific photographer and has appeared in two National Geographic feature articles since December 2009. His works display his unique perspective with profound clarity and are based on his scientific expertise and personally-executed preparation, microscopy and post-processing. Since 2005 his award-winning works have regularily been published by the greatest names in science and photography, such as BBC, CELL, Nature, VOGUE, and National Geographic.