Nikon has just announced the winners of its annual Small World Photomicrography competition, and as you can see from these stunning photographs, bigger isn't always better.
The competition is in its 42nd year and this year over 2000 people from 70 countries entered. For those that don't know, photomicrography is the practise of taking a photograph through a microscope or similar magnifying device in order to capture the intricate details of things invisible to the human eye. From the proboscis of a butterfly and the foot of a beetle to espresso coffee crystals, the pictures below give us a whole new way of looking at world. The categories are divided into winners, honorable mentions, and images of distinction, and you can find the full list on the Nikon Small World website.
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#1 Fourth Place. Butterfly Proboscis
Jochen Schroeder
#2 Fifth Place. Front Foot (Tarsus) Of A Male Diving Beetle
Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
#3 Eyes Of A Jumping Spider
Yousef Al Habshi
#4 Nineteenth Place. Human Neural Rosette Primordial Brain Cells
Dr. Gist F. Croft
#5 Eleventh Place. Scales Of A Butterfly Wing Underside
Francis Sneyers
#6 Thirteenth Place. Poison Fangs Of A Centipede
Walter Piorkowski
#7 Sixth Place. Air Bubbles Formed From Melted Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) Crystals
Marek Mis
#8 Eighth Place. Wildflower Stamens
Samuel Silberman
#9 Retinal Ganglion Cells In The Whole-Mounted Mouse Retina
Dr. Keunyoung Kim
#10 Ninth Place. Espresso Coffee Crystals
Vin Kitayama & Sanae Kitayama
#11 First Place. Four-Day-Old Zebrafish Embryo
Dr. Oscar Ruiz
#12 Caudal Gill Of A Dragonfly Larva
Marek Miś
#13 Goatsbeard Flower
Dr. Csaba Pintér
#14 Second Place. Polished Slab Of Teepee Canyon Agate
Douglas L. Moore
#15 Seventh Place. Leaves Of Selaginella
Dr. David Maitland
#16 Scales Of A Butterfly Wing
Evan Darling
#17 Hippocampal Neurons
Dr. Wutian Wu
#18 Copper Crystals
Honorio Cócera-La Parra
#19 Scales Of A Butterfly Wing
Anne Gleich
#20 Jellyfish
Teresa Zgoda
#21 Egg Of A Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
David Millard
#22 Prolegs Of A Hairy Caterpillar Gripping A Small Branch
James Dorey
#23 Interference Patterns On A Glycerin Based Soapy Solution
Haris Antonopoulos
#24 Robber Fly
Jan Rosenboom
#25 Beta-Alanine And Taurine Crystals
Matt Inman
#26 Gears Coupling Hind Legs Of A Planthopper Nymph
Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
#27 Twentieth Place. Cow Dung
Michael Crutchley
#28 Water Mite
Jacek Myslowski
#29 Leg Of A Water Boatman
Marek Miś
#30 Black Elder Tree Flower Stamen
Laurie Knight
#31 Ant Leg
Györgyi Zséli
#32 Wildflower Stamens
Samuel Silberman
#33 Twelfth Place. Human Hela Cell Undergoing Cell Division
Dr. Dylan Burnette
#34 Sixteenth Place. 65 Fossil Radiolarians (Zooplankton) Carefully Arranged By Hand In Victorian Style
Stefano Barone
#35 Licmophora Flabellata Diatoms
Dr. Arlene Wechezak
#36 Third Place. Brain Cells From Skin Cells
Rebecca Nutbrown
#37 Spore Capsule Of A Moss
Henri Koskinen
#38 Green Bottle Fly
Erno Endre Gergely
#39 Curvepod Fumewort (Corydalis Curvisiliqua) Seed
David Millard
#40 Seeds Of An Indian Paintbrush Wildflower
David Millard
#41 Slime Mold
José R. Almodóvar
#42 Fifteenth Place. Head Section Of An Orange Ladybird
Geir Drange
#43 Dentate Gyrus Of A Optically-Cleared Transgenic Mouse Brain
Hei Ming Lai & Dr. Wutian Wu
#44 Testis Of A Fruit Fly
Christopher Large
#45 Algae
Anne Gleich
#46 Microcrystal Test For Oxycodone Using Platinic Bromide Solution
Kelly Brinsko
#47 Ammonite Shell
Norm Barker
#48 Section Of A Red Speckled Jewel Beetle
Yousef Al Habshi
#49 Tenth Place. Frontonia (Showing Ingested Food, Cilia, Mouth And Trichocysts)
Rogelio Moreno Gill
#50 Section Of A Begonia Flower
Viktor Sykora
#51 Tail Of A A Small Shrimp
Charles B. Krebs
#52 Deep Sea Crustacea
Dr. Tomonari Kaji
#53 Mouse Hand, Showing Veins
Evan Darling
#54 Young Flower Buds Of Arabidopsis
Dr. Nathanaël Prunet
#55 Diclofenac Crystals
Adolfo Ruiz De Segovia
#56 Ant Pupae
Geir Drange
#57 Cerebellum Brain Section Of A Rat
Dr. Barbara Orsolits
#58 Cross Section Of Stem Of Barley
Dr. Stephen Lowry
#59 Viperfish
Dr. Alvaro Roura
#60 Early Stages Of Mouse Embryo Development
Dr. Gaelle Recher
#61 Fourteenth Place. Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells
Dr. Keunyoung Kim
#62 Section Of The Cerebellum
Dr. Marc Leushacke
#63 Galls Of A Mite
Györgyi Zséli
#64 Surface Of Embryonic Mouse Kidney
Dr. Nils Lindström
#65 Tintinnid Ciliate Of The Marine Plankton
Dr. John R. Dolan
#66 Hippocampal Slice Culture Stained For Neurons
Dr. Jennifer L. Peters
#67 Forewing (Elytron) Of A Tiger Beetle
Dr. Rudolf Büchi
#68 Leaves Of A Liverwort
Magdalena Turzańska
#69 Actin, Mitochondria And Dna In A Bovine Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cell
Dr. Talley J. Lambert
#70 Mullein Flower
Karl Gaff
#71 Eighteenth Place. Parts Of Wing-Cover
Pia Scanlon
#72 Jurinea Mollis Seed
Viktor Sykora
#73 Micrasterias Thomasiana
Jacek Myslowski
#74 Moving Vesicles
Dr. Erdinc Sezgin
#75 Cross Section Of A Lily Of The Valley
#76 Cultured Fat Cells
Heiko T. Jansen
#77 Cross-Section Through A Multi-Layered Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Composite Structure For Defect Analysis
Peter Pook
#78 A Daisy’s Central Disc Pattern Of Tiny Unopened Flowers
Peter Courtney Kinchington
#79 Trumpet Animalcule Containing Endosymbionts
Wim van Egmond
#80 Dasineura Affinis
Dr. Csaba Pintér
#81 Mosquito Larva
Edwin Lee
#82 Zebrafish Fin With Cylindrical Bone Segments And Rows Of Pigment
Dr. Leonardo Andrade
#83 Fossil Diatom From Oamaru
Frank Fox
#84 Section Of Stem Of A Bomarea Densiflora Plant Specime
Edgar Javier Rincón
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