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The art of photographing very small objects is commonly known as photomicrography. Do a Yahoo! search on that term and you'll be directed to a category (under Optical Engineering > Microscopy) that contains two branches, one for electron microscopes and another for microscopes that use visual light. Both categories contain sites that explore the aesthetic beauty of microscopy and the scientific research behind it. One of the best
resources, Molecular Expressions, offers a broad variety of photographic subjects, from beer to silicon chips to cell mitosis. Unfortunately, neither category seemed to contain sites that specialized in images of subatomic particles. After hunting around the Particle Physics category and doing some keyword searches on the phrase "subatomic particles," we determined that the primary means of spotting tiny particles is the use of cloud chambers and bubble chambers. By doing a Boolean seach -- one that uses quotation marks to indicate phrases and the + sign to indicate required terms -- we found several pages that offered images tracing the path of subatomic particles. The
Particle Adventure is an educational resource offered by the Particle Data Group of CERN (the European physics organization that gave us the Web!). There you'll find tons of information on particles and all their naughty shenanigans. Another cool link from our "bubble chamber" search leads to Particle Physics in the UK's Picture of the Week, which presents and explains interesting images of scientists, their experiments, laboratories, and equipment, as well as the particles themselves.
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