# Monthly Photo Competition #15 - February 2024 - “Big or small” **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [February 3, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064 "2024-02-03T15:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/21 "2024-02-22T12:20:21Z")
Coffee is harrassed by his little sibling. [![](https://i.imgur.com/FgPIijv.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/FgPIijv.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/22 "2024-02-23T02:23:55Z")
I had a slightly… different take on the theme [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2164/2530300941_52f8445cb4_b.jpg "Fortune Teller - Musee Mechanique") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/zyada/2530300941/) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/23 "2024-02-23T13:07:54Z")
Big’uns and littl’uns [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53547327419_751f22a534_b.jpg "Big and little") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/53547327419/) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/24 "2024-02-26T01:14:50Z")
Big dog, little space. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/bA5NJfi.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/bA5NJfi) ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/25 "2024-02-26T01:25:24Z")
  So I’m going with small, probably with the smallest things anyone will enter here.   This picture was taken in 2009 through my microscope, using my 15× eyepiece (which has that numbered scale built into it, and my 100× oil-immersion objective.  When this eyepiece is used with this objective, the distance between the numbered ticks is eleven microns, a micron being 1⁄1000 of a millimeter, or 1⁄1000000 of a meter.   This image shows at least two different kinds of bacteria, [Gram-stained](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_stain).   The larger, pink squiggly things are [spirochaetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirochaete).  They stain pink because they are [Gram-negative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-negative_bacteria).   The much smaller bacteria, mostly just above the scale, between 6 and 7 stained purple because they are [Gram-positive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-positive_bacteria).   This entire image covers a width of approximately 70 microns, 0.07 of a millimeter, or about 1⁄363 of an inch. [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53552830620_7339983216_o.png) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53552830620_7339983216_o.png) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/26 "2024-02-26T11:26:45Z")
Big windows [![](https://i.imgur.com/eAtCjr3.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/eAtCjr3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/27 "2024-02-26T16:13:01Z")
Big lights from the Big Apple [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53554015089_f31b1e80db_b.jpg "Tribute in Light") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/53554015089/) ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/28 "2024-02-26T21:14:00Z")
Please vote for your three favourite photos, using whatever criteria you feel is best. All Dopers are welcome to vote - you don’t need to have submitted a photo. **You cannot vote for your own photo**. You get three votes (and the poll will make you use all of them). The voting deadline is **9pm UK time on 9.30pm UK time on Thursday 29th Feb**. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064/28))_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-15-february-2024-big-or-small/997064.md?page=1)