Below are the graphical images submitted for the "Best imaginary tick" category. All images are copyrighted by their authors. The images are listed in the order they were received.
IT1: Yafa Azagi, Tal Azagi and Hein Sprong - Artisticks: All ticks are living creatures with unique and unseen characteristicks. How would ticks look like if their true nature was revealed as a colorful expression? A photographic imagine of metal sculptures with car paint:
IT2: Sara Wijburg and Hein Sprong - The feminine side of ticks: A photographic imagine of a charcoal drawing on paper:
IT3: Rosca Adelina - An ancient medicine book. This is how I imagine Ixodes ricinus shown in a medieval book drawn by a tick-infested monk:
IT4: Jose de la Fuente - Tick cake:
IT5: Ronel Pienaar - drawing of an imaginary tick based on Nuttalliella
IT6: Andrei Daniel Mihalca - Ticks and block of Ana:
IT7: Andrei Daniel Mihalca - Eaticks:
IT8: Daniele de Meneghi - Composition of some photos of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Amblyomma variegatum, and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) spp. ticks, feeding on Tonga breed cattle, Southern Province of Zambia, years 1988-90); the photos are old slides, scansioned and modified by Photoshop, using oil-painting filter option ... I liked the idea of ticks joining for an "happy hour":
IT9: Laura Tomassone - a Dermacentor marginatus questing in a Alpine pasture:
IT10: Laura Tomassone - An old drawing I made when I was in Tanzania for my PhD, to explain to Maasai pastoralist the experiment we were carrying out to study the tick attachment duration of R. appendiculatus ticks, vectors of East Coast Fever. It was a 'tick painting': we coloured ticks with a different colour every day, and then counted the coloured ticks on cattle. The various tick species that can be found on cattle and the order in which colours are applied to parasites are illustrated:
