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Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography.
It's hard to imagine the afflictions we face being described as "beautiful." But as entries to Nikon's Small World competition demonstrate, they're ready for their close up. The annual photography competition calls for entries from photomicrographers, a particular subtype of photographer who makes images at extreme magnifications, finding art in the most basic elements of the material around us: single cells, a waterflea in profile, a soy sauce crystal.
Some of that photography showcases the beauty of pathogens, diseased cells and other elements of our varied illnesses; an electric yellow squiggle is a parasitic worm, a glowing green orb, dotted with red
Dr. Jennifer L. Peters & Dr. Michael R. Taylor
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Subject Matter:The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo (20x)
Technique: Confocal
Walter Piorkowski
Subject Matter:Live newborn lynx spiderlings (6x)
Technique:Reflected Light, Fiber Optics, Image Stacking
Geir Drange
Subject Matter: Two ants of different genus meeting on a twig (2.5x)
Technique: Reflected Light, Image Stacking
Nikola Rahme
Subject Matter:Eye and first segments of Cucujus cinnaberinus (Cinnabar flat beetle)(18x)
Technique:Reflected Light
Ralph Claus Grimm
Subject Matter:Chrysopa (lacewing) head (130x)
Technique Reflected Light, Image Stacking
Harold Taylor
Subject Matter: House spider (30x)
Technique:Image Stacking
It's hard to imagine the afflictions we face being described as "beautiful." But as entries to Nikon's Small World competition demonstrate, they're ready for their close up. The annual photography competition calls for entries from photomicrographers, a particular subtype of photographer who makes images at extreme magnifications, finding art in the most basic elements of the material around us: single cells, a waterflea in profile, a soy sauce crystal.
Some of that photography showcases the beauty of pathogens, diseased cells and other elements of our varied illnesses; an electric yellow squiggle is a parasitic worm, a glowing green orb, dotted with red
Dr. Jennifer L. Peters & Dr. Michael R. Taylor
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Subject Matter:The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo (20x)
Technique: Confocal
Walter Piorkowski
Subject Matter:Live newborn lynx spiderlings (6x)
Technique:Reflected Light, Fiber Optics, Image Stacking
Geir Drange
Subject Matter: Two ants of different genus meeting on a twig (2.5x)
Technique: Reflected Light, Image Stacking
Nikola Rahme
Subject Matter:Eye and first segments of Cucujus cinnaberinus (Cinnabar flat beetle)(18x)
Technique:Reflected Light
Ralph Claus Grimm
Subject Matter:Chrysopa (lacewing) head (130x)
Technique Reflected Light, Image Stacking
Harold Taylor
Subject Matter: House spider (30x)
Technique:Image Stacking
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