3rd Place winner of the 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition, a 20x close-up of a marine worm by Dr. Alvaro Esteves Migotto, of the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Brazil. #

First place winner in the competition, this image depicts a colonial plankton organism, Chaetoceros debilis (marine diatom), magnified 250x by Wim van Egmond, of the Micropolitan Museum, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. #

Honorable Mention: This 100X image of an adult mouse foot showing blood vessels, immune cells and soft tissues, by Dr. Andrew J. Woolley, Himanshi Desai and Kevin Otto, Purdue University, Indiana. #

Image of Distinction: An image of primary rat brain astrocytes cultured in a SynVivo BBB (blood-brain barrier) device, by Ashley M. Smith, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama. #

Image of Distinction: A 20X view of silicon nanocrystals in silicon dioxide, by Jan Valenta and Benjamin Bruhn, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic. #

This image of an annelid larva magnified 100x, by Christian Sardet, of the Department of Life Sciences, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, took 18th Place. #

A 10x view of the buckling of a hydrogel bilayer due to swelling, by Catherine Russell and Dayong Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering. #

Honorable Mention: A 40x view of the crystallization of tartrazine (dye primarily used as a food coloring), by Frederic Labaune, Education Nationale, Auxonne, France. #

Image of Distinction: A 50x image showing a cross-cut through an assembly of two dark-brown fiber-reinforced composite pieces, which are bonded together with gray adhesive and back-filled with a blue mass of composite material, by Peter Pook, Composites Atlantic Ltd., Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. #

This 7th place winner by Dr. Jan Michels, from Kiel, Germany, shows a 20x magnification of the adhesive pad on a foreleg of Coccinella septempunctata (ladybird beetle). #

Image of Distinction: A 100x view of a polished section of fossilized permocarbonian horsetail by Dr. Josef Spacek, University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. #

Taking 16th place, this 5x image of a sheet weaver spider (Pityohyphantes phrygianus), with a parasitic wasp larva on the abdomen, taken by Geir Drange from Asker, Norway. #

Image of Distinction: A 3D reconstruction of a rabbit embryo (Oryctolagus cuniculus), close to term, obtained with a custom built Optical Projection microTomography setup by Dr. Gabriel G. Marins and Rob Bryson-Richardson, of the Centro de Biologia Ambiental/Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. #

8th place winner, a 50x image of Barbilophozia sp. (a leafy liverwort, bryophyte plant) and cyanobacteria, by Magdalena Turzanska, of the Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, Poland. #

Image of Distinction: Magnified 100x, an image of pearceite, an uncommon silver mineral, in beautiful hexagonal crystals, from a copper mine in Spain, by Dr. Cesar Menor Salvan, Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain. #

10th Place, a 10x image of a thin section of a dinosaur bone preserved in clear agate, by Ted Kinsman, of the Department of Imaging and Photo Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. #

Image of Distinction: From Magdalena Turzanska, of the University of Wroclaw, Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland, a 50X image of Lepidozia reptans (a leafy liverwort, bryophyte plant) ventral side of pinnately branched stem. #

14th place winner: An image of peripheral nerves in E11.5 mouse embryo by Mr. Zhong Hua, of the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland. #

Image of Distinction: A 100X view of Polypodium virginianum (fern) sorus, by Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia. #

Winner of 6th place, an image of a Chamaeleo calyptratus (veiled chameleon), embryo showing cartilage (blue) and bone (red), by Dorit Hockman, of the University of Cambridge, UK #