Higher still and higher  

From the earth thou springest,  

Like a cloud of fire;  

The blue deep thou wingest,  

And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

    To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley

It looks like a painting or a very photoshopped picture of birds, but it’s actually an image taken in polarized light of crystallized glycine, tartaric acid and resorcinol. It was submitted by Edy Kieser to Nikon’s Small World Competition.

I’m thinking science, but I’m seeing art. I just love when that happens.

- Agathe of Frontal Cortex

(Source: artandsciencejournal.com)