Nikon recently unveiled the winners of its annual photomicrography contest, which celebrates the hidden world only seen under a light microscope. For 43 years, scientists, doctors, and enthusiasts have entered their best work into the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, bringing a new worldview to the public.
20th Place
Photo by Tracy Scott.
Aspergillus flavus (fungus) and yeast colony from soil.
19th Place
Photo by Dr. Dylan Burnette.
Embryonic body wall from a developing Mus musculus (mouse).
18th Place
Photo by Christian Gautier.
Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin.
17th Place
Photo by Harald K. Andersen.
Dyed human hair.
16th Place
Photo by Marek Miś.
Parus major (titmouse) down feather.
15th Place
Photo by Dr. Rick Adams.
3rd trimester fetus of Megachiroptera (fruit bat).
14th Place
Photo by David Millard.
Common Mestra butterfly (Mestra amymone) eggs, laid on a leaf of Tragia sp. (Noseburn plant).
13th Place
Photo by Levon Biss.
Exaerete frontalis (orchid cuckoo bee) from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
12th Place
Photo by Charles B. Krebs.
Opiliones (daddy longlegs) eye.
11th Place
Photo by Steven Simon.
Plastic fracturing on credit card hologram.
10th Place
Photo by Dr. Csaba Pintér.
Phyllobius roboretanus (weevil).
9th Place
Photo by Catarina Moura, Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr. Richard Oreffo & Dr. Rahul Tare.
Growing cartilage-like tissue in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red).
8th Place
Photo by Dr. Michael Perny.
Newborn rat cochlea with sensory hair cells (green) and spiral ganglion neurons (red).
7th Place
Photo by Dr. Ryo Egawa.
Individually labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion.
6th Place
Photo by Dr. David A. Johnston.
Lily pollen.
5th Place
Photo by Dean Lerman.
Mold on a tomato.
4th Place
Photo by Teresa Zgoda.
Taenia solium (tapeworm) everted scolex.
3rd Place
Photo by Jean-Marc Babalian.
Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies.
2nd Place
Photo by Dr. Havi Sarfaty.
Senecio vulgaris (a flowering plant) seed head.
1st Place
Photo by Dr. Bram van den Broek, Andriy Volkov, Dr. Kees Jalink, Dr. Reinhard Windoffer & Dr. Nicole Schwarz.
Immortalized human skin cells (HaCaT keratinocytes) expressing fluorescently tagged keratin.
