Trending Now - 2017 Nikon Macro Photo Contest Winners Show The World Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Sometimes bigger is better, but other times it’s all about the details, and as you can see from the winners of Nikon’s 2017 Small World Photomicrography competition, it doesn’t get more detailed than this.
The competition, which is now in its 43rd year, attracts doctors, scientists, and macro photography enthusiasts from all over the world, and over 2000 people from 88 countries submitted their work for consideration this year. For those of you who don’t know, photomicrography is the practise of taking a photograph through a microscope or similar magnifying device in order to capture the intricate details of things invisible to the human eye.
This year’s top prize went to researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, BioImaging Facility & Department of Cell Biology, who captured immortalised human skin cells expressing fluorescently tagged keratin. Scroll down to see the rest of the winners. The categories are divided into winners, honorable mentions, and images of distinction, and you can find the full list on the Nikon Small World website.
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Immortalized human skin cells expressing fluorescently tagged keratin, Amsterdam, 1st place
Image credits: Dr. Bram van den Broek, Andriy Volkov, Dr. Kees Jalink, Dr. Reinhard Windoffer & Dr. Nicole Schwarz
Senecio vulgaris seed head, Israel, 2nd place
Image credits: Dr. Havi Sarfaty
Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies, Nantes, 3 rd place
Image credits: Jean-Marc Babalian
Taenia solium (tapeworm) everted scolex, New York, 4th place
Image credits: Teresa Zgoda
Mold on a tomato, Netanya, 5th place
Image credits: Dean Lerman
Lily pollen, Southampton, 6th place
Image credits: Dr. David A. Johnston
Individually labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion, Nagoya, 7th place
Image credits: Dr. Ryo Egawa
Newborn rat cochlea with sensory hair cells (green) and spiral ganglion neurons (red), Bern, 8th place
Image credits: Dr. Michael Perny
Growing cartilage-like tissue in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red), Southampton, 9th place
Image credits: Catarina Moura, Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr. Richard Oreffo & Dr. Rahul Tare
Phyllobius roboretanus (weevil), Keszthely, 10th place
Image credits: Dr. Csaba Pintér
Plastic fracturing on credit card hologram, Texas, 11th place
Image credits: Steven Simon
Opiliones (daddy longlegs) eye, Washington, 12th place
Image credits: Charles B. Krebs
Exaerete frontalis (orchid cuckoo bee) from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Ramsbury, 13th place
Image credits: Levon Biss
Common Mestra butterfly (Mestra amymone) eggs, laid on a leaf of Tragia sp. (Noseburn plant), Texas, 14th place
Image credits: David Millard
3rd trimester fetus of Megachiroptera (fruit bat), Colorado, 15th place
Image credits: Dr. Rick Adams
Parus major (titmouse) down feather, Podlaskie, 16th place
Image credits: Marek Miś
Dyed human hair, Steinberg, 17th place
Image credits: Harald K. Andersen
Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin, Le Mans, 18th place
Image credits: Christian Gautier
Embryonic body wall from a developing Mus musculus, Tennessee, 19th place
Image credits: Dr. Dylan Burnette
Aspergillus flavus (fungus) and yeast colony from soil, New York, 20th place
Image credits: Tracy Scott
Jumping spider, Istanbul, honorable mention
Image credits: Emre Can Alagöz
Dye-injected hippocampal interneuron in mouse brain section, Budapest, honorable mention
Ciliated respiratory epithelial cells (yellow) and mucus producing goblet cells (cyan), containing tight junctions (red) and nuclei (blue), Rotterdam, honorable mention
Image credits: Alwin de Jong, Dr. G.J. Kremers & Dr. R.L. de Swart
Neurons derived from a Parkinson patient, Seongnam, honorable mention
Image credits: Dr. Regis Grailhe, Nasia Antoniou & Dr. Rebecca Matsas
Ganglion cells expressing fluorescent proteins in a mouse retina, California, honorable mention
Image credits: Dr. Keunyoung Kim
Traxacum officinale (dandelion) cross section showing curved stigma with pollen, Nottingham, honorable mention
Image credits: Dr. Robert Markus
Broccoli, Washington, honorable mention
Image credits: Dr. Nathan Myhrvold
Human tongue blood vessels injected with lead chromate, New York, honorable mention
Image credits: Frank Reiser
Liquid crystal, Colorado, honorable mention
Image credits: Michael Tuchband
Warp knitted curtain fabric, Zwijnaarde, honorable mention
Image credits: Marc Van Hove
