From 'As we Are' Set Photography: Pepe Escuredo © 2009 All Rights Reserved

These photographs from the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, record a beauty usually hidden to the human eye

For the Fourth of July, see NASA's favorite "fireworks" in space, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Photographed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. For more nature images of South Florida, please visit me at: pedrolastra.com © 2012 by Pedro Lastra This image is copyrighted material as indicated!