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Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com This week we're asking you to explore the tiny, overlooked universes that surround us ... and blow them up. Easy champ, we mean "blow up" like a balloon, not a bomb.

Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best macro photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 most highly ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Turn your toothbrush bristles into a nylon forest, tree bark into the Grand Canyon, or your juicy steak into some gristly, alien terrain. Make us into hypochondriac germaphobes through the level of detail you capture.

The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800-1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc.

We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).

Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!

Also, check out the winner's galleries from our previous contests: Holga, Red, Self-Portrait and Night.

Vote on macro photos submitted by other readers.

Show entries that are: hot | new | top-rated. Submit your night photo.

Submit your macro photo.

(No more than one every 30 minutes. No HTML allowed.)

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