Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2018

Alan Taylor
October 11, 2018
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Nikon just announced the winners of the 2018 Small World Photomicrography Competition, and it’s shared some of the winning and honored images with us. The contest invites photographers and scientists to submit images of all things visible under a microscope. Nearly 2,500 entries were received from 89 countries in 2018, the 44th year of the competition.

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Image of Distinction: A male wasp from Fiji, magnified four times #

James Dorey, Adelaide, Australia

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Honorable Mention: A Charaxes sp. (emperor butterfly) wing, magnified 10 times #

Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington

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Fifth Place: A Parasteatoda tepidariorum (spider embryo) stained for embryo surface (pink), nuclei (blue), and microtubules (green), magnified 20 times #

Dr. Tessa Montague, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Image of Distinction: A Siphonaptera (flea), magnified 20 times #

Luciano Andres Richino, Ramos Mejia, Argentina

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Image of Distinction: A Adiantum capillus-veneris (fern) sporangium, the enclosure in which spores are formed, magnified 10 times #

Ou Zhilei, Guagndong, China

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Image of Distinction: Human neurons in a culture from Parkinson's patients, magnified 40 times #

Dr. Regis Grailhe, Nasia Antoniou, Dr. Rebecca Matsas, Seongnam, South Korea

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First Place: The eye of a Metapocyrtus subquadrulifer beetle, magnified 20 times #

Yousef Al Habshi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Twelfth Place: Urania ripheus (butterfly) wing scales, magnified 20 times #

Luciano Andres Richino, Ramos Mejia, Argentina

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Honorable Mention: Bubbles and a single cloth fiber (red) on a rock surface, magnified 10 times #

Walter Piorkowski, South Beloit, Illinois

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Eighth Place: A portrait of a Sternochetus mangiferae (mango seed weevil), magnified one time #

Pia Scanlon, South Perth, Australia

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Third Place: A spittlebug nymph in its bubble house, magnified five times #

Saulius Gugis, Naperville, Illinois

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Second Place: Fern sorus, structures producing and containing spores, magnified 10 times #

Rogelio Moreno, Panama City, Panama

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Image of Distinction: A mite on an antenna of a May bug, magnified four times #

Emre Can Alagöz, Istanbul, Turkey

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Image of Distinction: Bryum hornum (moss) antheridia (sex organ) and paraphyses (support structures), magnified 20 times #

Magdalena Turzanska, Wroclaw, Poland

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Nineteenth Place: A Vespa velutina (Asian hornet) with venom on its stinger, magnified 6.3 times #

Pierre Anquet, La Tour-du-Crieu, France

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Image of Distinction: Goethite (iron oxide) needles on quartz from the Marmoraton Mine in Ontario, Canada, magnified 10 times #

Michael Bainbridge, Minden, Ontario, Canada

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Honorable Mention: A chameleon embryo, magnified five times #

Teresa Zgoda, Campbell Hall, New York

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Image of Distinction: Floscularia rotifer feeding, magnified 20 times #

Rogelio Moreno, Panama City, Panama

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Image of Distinction: A rotting willow leaf, magnified 3.7 times #

Murat Öztürk, Ankara, Turkey

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Image of Distinction: Fern sori, structures producing and containing spores, magnified four times #

Waldo Nell, Delta, British Columbia, Canada

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Image of Distinction: A parasitic larva (from the Ichneumonidae wasp family) feeding on a spider abdomen, magnified 20 times #

Dr. Matyas Molnar, Uppsala, Sweden

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Image of Distinction: A wilted flower, magnified four times #

Samuel Silberman, Yahud-Monoson, Israel

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Thirteenth Place: Balanus glandula (acorn barnacle), magnified five times #

Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington

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Honorable Mention: A Daphnia (water flea) with eggs, magnified four times #

Anne Algar, Hounslow, United Kingdom

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