Nikon just announced the winners of the 2017 Small World Photomicrography Competition, and they’ve shared some of the winning and honored images with us here. The contest invites photographers and scientists to submit images of all things visible under a microscope. More than 2,000 entries were received from 88 countries in 2017, the 43rd year of the competition.
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2017
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Read moreThe 12th place winner shows a closeup of the eye of an Opiliones (daddy longlegs) magnified 20x. #
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington -
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Read more2nd Place: A Senecio vulgaris (a flowering plant) seed head, magnified 2x. #
Dr. Havi Sarfaty, Yahud-Monoson, Israel -
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Read more11th place shows an image of plastic fracturing on a credit card hologram magnified 10x. #
Steven Simon, Grand Prairie, Texas -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Nsutite and Cacoxenite (minerals), magnified 5x. #
Emilio Carabajal Márquez, Madrid, Spain -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: The eyes of a jumping spider, magnified 6x. #
Emre Can Alagöz, Istanbul, Turkey -
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Read moreThe 15th place winner is an image of a 3rd trimester fetus of a Megachiroptera (fruit bat), magnified 18x. #
Dr. Rick Adams, Greeley, Colorado -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Moth eggs in spider silk, magnified 16x. #
Walter Piorkowski, South Beloit, Illinois -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A natural bridge (petiole nodes) connecting the abdomen and thorax of an ant, magnified 5x. #
Can Tunçer, Izmir, Turkey -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: Human tongue blood vessels injected with lead chromate, magnified 100x. #
Frank Reiser, Garden City, New York -
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Read more8th Place: An image of a newborn rat cochlea with sensory hair cells (green) and spiral ganglion neurons (red), magnified 100x. #
Dr. Michael Perny, Bern, Switzerland -
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Read more5th Place: Mold on a tomato magnified 3.9x. #
Dean Lerman, Netanya, Israel -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: A Taraxacum officinale (dandelion) cross section showing curved stigma with pollen, magnified 25x. #
Dr. Robert Markus, Nottingham, United Kingdom -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Simple eyes of an Ectemnius (digger wasp), with condensation, magnified 20x. #
Laurie Knight, Tonbridge, United Kingdom -
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Read moreThe 7th place winner shows individually labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion magnified 30x. #
Dr. Ryo Egawa, Nagoya, Japan -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A Cladocera (water flea) magnified 10x. #
Rogelio Moreno, Panama City, Panama -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A group of rotifers magnified 20x. #
Frank Fox, Konz, Germany -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The face of a small moth magnified 5x. #
Jan Rosenboom, Rostock, Germany -
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Read more9th Place: Growing cartilage-like tissue in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red), magnified 20x for collagen; 40x for fat deposits. #
Catarina Moura, Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr. Richard Oreffo & Dr. Rahul Tare, Southampton, United Kingdom -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Abdominal proleg of a Lasiocampa (caterpillar) magnified 3.7x. #
Dean Lerman, Netanya, Israel -
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Read moreThe 4th place winner shows the everted scolex (head) of a Taenia solium (tapeworm), magnified 200x. #
Teresa Zgoda, Rochester, New York -
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Read more18th place shows Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin magnified 100x. #
Christian Gautier, Le Mans, France -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: Warp knitted curtain fabric magnified 10x. #
Marc Van Hove, Zwijnaarde, Belgium -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: Liquid crystal magnified 500x. #
Michael Tuchband, Boulder, Colorado -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Mosquito larva, early development, magnified 10x. #
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington
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