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Welcome to a world so small yet so magnificent, it’ll make your jaw drop! These 48 mind-blowing images from Nikon’s 2024 Small World Contest invite you to peer into the microscopic realm, where the tiniest details come to life in a dazzling display of color and intricacy. Imagine seeing the vibrant patterns on a butterfly’s wing magnified to reveal a stunning artwork only nature could create, or a drop of water showcasing a mini universe trapped inside.
Image Of Distinction – Zhang Chao
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
“Beach sand.”
12th Place – Daniel Knop
Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany
“Wing scales of a butterfly (Papilio ulysses) on a medical syringe needle.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Laurent Formery And Dr. Nathaniel Clarke
Stanford University
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Pacific Grove, California, USA
“Nervous system of a young sea star.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Håkan Kvarnström
Bromma, Sweden
“Peacock plume feather.”
Image Of Distinction – Timothy Boomer
Vacaville, California, USA
“Slime mold (Prototrichia metallica).”
Image Of Distinction – Ted Kinsman
Rochester Institute of Technology
Photosciences Department
Rochester, New York, USA
“A common house cat claw.”
Image Of Distinction – Uwe Lange
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
“Pollen on the compound eyes of a fly.”
13th Place – Paweł Błachowicz
Bedlno, Świętokrzyskie, Poland
“Eyes of green crab spider (Diaea dorsata).”
Honorable Mention – Dr. Bruce Douglas Taubert
Glendale, Arizona, USA
“Ocelli between the compound eyes of a yellow jacket.”
5th Place – Thomas Barlow And Connor Gibbons
Columbia University
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
New York, New York, USA
“Cluster of octopus (Octopus hummelincki) eggs.”
6th Place – Henri Koskinen
Helsinki University
Helsinki, Uudenmaan lääni, Finland
“Slime mold (Cribraria cancellata).”
Honorable Mention – Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
“Antenna of a mole crab.”
Honorable Mention – Jochen Stern
Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
“Golden bug eggs on a sage leaf.”
Honorable Mention – Randy Fullbright
Vernal, Utah, USA
“Agatized dinosaur bone.”
Image Of Distinction – Joshua Coogler
Dallas, North Carolina, USA
“Moss sporophyte with spores (green).”
3rd Place – Chris Romaine
Port Townsend, Washington, USA
“Leaf of a cannabis plant. The bulbous glands are trichomes. The bubbles inside are cannabinoid vesicles.”
11th Place – Dr. Ferenc Halmos
Bánd, Veszprém, Hungary
“Slime mold on a rotten twig with water droplets.”
7th Place – Gerhard Vlcek
Maria Enzersdorf, Austria
“Cross section of European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) leaf.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Robert Markus
University of Nottingham
School of Life Sciences, Super Resolution Microscopy
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
“Dandelion (Traxacum officinale) cross section showing curved stigma with pollen.”
Image Of Distinction – Thomas Neumann
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
“Ink dot on Japanese washi paper.”
9th Place – John-Oliver Dum
Medienbunker Produktion
Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
“Pollen in a garden spider (Araneus) web.”
Image Of Distinction – Jacek Myslowski
Wloclawek, Kujawko-Pomorskie, Poland
“Water mite (Arrenurus).”
2nd Place – Dr. Marcel Clemens
Verona, Veneto, Italy
“Electrical arc between a pin and a wire.”
Honorable Mention – Daniel Evrard
Aywaille, Liege, Belgium
“Vinyl player needle on scratched vinyl disk.”
Image Of Distinction – Daniel Knop
Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany
“Dorsal part of cuckoo wasp (Hedychrum gerstaeckeri) abdomen.”
Image Of Distinction – Steven A. Valley
Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA)
Entomology Lab
Albany, Oregon, USA
“Immature male damselfly (Calopteryx aequabilis).”
19th Place – Alison Pollack
San Anselmo, California, USA
“Seed of a Silene plant.”
Honorable Mention -Dr. Kseniia Bondarenko
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Immunology and Infection Research
Edinburgh, MidLothian, United Kingdom
“Acute-stage parasites of Toxoplasma gondii in a human skin cell.”
Image Of Distinction – Alison Pollack
San Anselmo, California, USA
“Slime mold (Lamproderma arcyrioides).”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
“Aster anther cross-section with pollen grains (green).”
Image Of Distinction – Elkhan Yusifov And Dr. Martina Schaettin
University of Zurich
Department of Molecular Life Sciences
Zurich, Switzerland
“Developing nervous system in the eye of a 7-day-old chick embryo.”
Image Of Distinction – Susannah Waxman And Dr. Ian Sigal
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Ophthalmology
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
“Optic nerve head collagen of a pig.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Grigorii Timin And Dr. Michel Milinkovitch
University of Geneva
Department of Genetics and Evolution
Geneva, Switzerland
“Skin scales of a snake embryo stained with Fast Green dye.”
16th Place – Marek Miś
Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland
“Two water fleas (Daphnia sp.) with embryos (left) and eggs (right).”
Image Of Distinction – Gerd A. Günther
Düsseldorf, Germany
“Cross section of a beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) leaf.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Felice Placenti
FP Nature and Landscape Photography
Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy
“Potato tuber sprout.”
Image Of Distinction – Chris Romaine
Port Townsend, Washington, USA
“Bract (part of the plant’s reproductive structures) of a cannabis plant. The bulbous glands are trichomes.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Saikat Ghosh
National Institutes of Health
NICHD
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
“Human neurons.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Marko Pende
MDI Biological Laboratory
Murawala Lab
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
“Ladybug (Coccinellidae) on a clover (Trifolium repens).”
10th Place – Jan Martinek
Charles University
Department of Experimental Plant Biology
Prague, Czech Republic
“Spores of black truffle (Tuber melanosporum).”
Honorable Mention – Dr. David Maitland
St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
“Transverse section of rachis (stem) of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum).”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Sherif Abdallah Ahmed
Tanta University, Faculty of Science
Department of Zoology
Tanta, Egypt, Arab Republic
“Anterior section of palm weevil.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Amir Maqbool
Lovely Professional University
Department of Zoology
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
“Small fly killed by ‘zombie fly’ fungus (Entomophthora muscae).”
Image Of Distinction – Daniel Knop
Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany
“Opening of a hibiscus flower (Hibiscus moscheutos) exposing the pollen in four stages, each ten minutes apart.”
Image Of Distinction – Chew Yen Fook
Woodend, Waimakiriri, New ZealandA936
“Graffiti from Berlin Wall stone section.”
Image Of Distinction – Dr. Gonzalo Quiroga Artigas
RBM-CNRS
Montpellier, Herault, France
“Tardigrade (Hypsibius exemplaris).”
1st Place – Dr. Bruno Cisterna And Dr. Eric Vitriol
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Department of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine
Augusta, Georgia, USA
“Differentiated mouse brain tumor cells (actin, microtubules, and nuclei).”
14th Place – Marek Miś
Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland
“Recrystallized mixture of hydroquinone and myoinositol.”
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