Top 20 Nikon Small World Competition Photos

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Small World photomicrography competition Nikon was first held in 1975. The judges of the contest in 2012 are viewing the hundreds of photos to determine your top 20. Here we are listing these 20 lovely and catchy photos. Choose your best and leave reply in comments. Thank You :)

(20 photos)

1. 20th place was presented by Dorit Hockman from the University of Cambridge. This image shows a bright three embryos black mastiff bat (Molossus rufu) in the progression of the stages of development. In the later stages of the wings are longer and the ears - more.

2. 19th place: Colorful Garlic

This colorful image of flower buds of garlic won 19th place in the competition of Nikon Small World. Rudiments shows cones cells, which are the earliest stage of development of the flower. The image taken using the technique known as epi-illumination, provided by Somayeh Naghiloo from the University of Tabriz in Iran.

3. 18th place: Coral sand

Particles coral sand terrible forms are scattered on a light image at 100x from David Maitland, zoologist and photographer who lives in the English village Feltwell. Photo won 18th place in the competition Nikon Small World.

4. 17th place: Stinging Nettle

Charles Krebs of Isaac, Washington, won the 17th place in the competition this Nikon Small World image of biting the tip attached to the capillary nettle scale 100x. The microscopic image was made ​​using the technique of the transmitted light.

5. 16th place: Snails and shrimp

This section of petrified ancient agate Turritella contains freshwater snails (Elimia Tenera) and ostracods (shrimp). Picture of the scale 7x won 16th place for Douglas Moore, an expert from the University of Wisconsin agates in Stevens Point.

6. 15th place: Look at those legs!

This confocal image from Andrea Zhenre the University of Turin in scale 10x shows sparkles with foot section of a ladybug. The picture won the 15th place in the competition Nikon Small World.

7. 14th place: Pastel pistil

Pink, orange and yellow colors abound in this image pistils Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum) wide 10x. Painting from the 14th place of the contest uses the technique docking images and presented Jose R. Almodovar Rivera of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

8. 13th place: Micro-predator

That image at 1h400 represented Diana Lipscomb of George Washington University, shows the simplest type, known as Saunder. This ciliates that prey on a variety of algae, diatoms and cyanobacteria. The image was made ​​using Nomarski interference contrast and won 13th place in the competition of Nikon Small World.

9. 12th place: The cells in gels

12th place in the competition took Nikon Small World image lymphatic endothelial cells and fibroblasts, covering beads and immersed in 3-D fibrin gel. Image provided by Ezra Hooke from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, was made ​​using fluorescence and confocal microscopy.

10. 11th place: Internal bug

This confocal image at 25x shows a portion of the intestine of the fruit fly larvae with notes markers signaling pathway (green) colored cytoskeleton (red) and nuclear markers (blue). The picture won the 11th place in the competition for the Nikon Small World Jessica Von Stetina of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

11. 10th place: Brittle star

Alvaro Migotto the University of Sao Paulo won the 10th place in the competition Nikon Small World with this photo brittle star scale 1x8. The image used stereomicroscopy and dark background image.

12. 9th place: Child Care

This micrograph scale 5x, which uses reflected light and dock image shows an ant carrying a larva. Image represented by Geir Drang of Asker, Norway, took 9th place in the competition Nikon Small World.

13. 8th place: Sea gooseberry

This image larval sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia sp.) 500x scale was removed by a technique known as differential interference contrast. The picture won the eighteenth place in Nikon Small World competition for Gerd A. Guenther from Dusseldorf, Germany.

14. 7th place: Eye Heart

Michael John Bridge, the University of Utah shot wide 60x optical body Drosophila fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), using confocal microscopy. Photo won seventh place in the competition Nikon Small World.

15. 6th place: Seaweed on the loose

This colorful image of algae Cosmarium near sphagnum leaves in polarized light at 100x scale was removed Marek Mis of Suwalki, Poland. The picture won the sixth place in the competition of Nikon Small World

16. 5th place: Huge balls of fire in

tiny spheres kakoksenita mineral from the mines of La Paloma in Spain shows a fiery glow in the photograph on the scale 18x with transmitted light provided by Honorio Cocker la Parra from the University of Valencia. This is a winner from the fifth place contest Nikon Small World.

17. 4th place: Eye flies

This confocal image at 1500x focuses on the visual system of the fruit fly, located almost halfway out of the pupa. The retina is shown golden, photoreceptor axons in blue, and the brain tissue of green. The picture earned fourth place in the competition Nikon Small World W. Ryan Williamson of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

18. 3rd place: bone cancer

This image at 63x shows human bone cancer, where actin shown in purple, the mitochondria - the yellow and DNA - blue. The picture, which finished in third place, was done using a structured illumination microscopy and presented Dylan Burnett, of the National Institutes of Health.

19. 2nd place: Newborn spiders

The focus of this photo from the second place Walter Piorkowski Bilotta from Southern Illinois, are living newborn spiders. In micrographics 6x zoom uses reflected light, fiber optics and docking images.

20. 1st place: Brain fish zebrafish

Heads Top 20 Nikon Small World competition is a confocal image of the blood-brain barrier in zebrafish embryos scale 20x. Photo was taken by Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor from the Children's Research Hospital St. Jude in Memphis, Tenn., and is considered the first image shows the formation of the blood-brain barrier in live animals.