Winners of Nikon's 47th annual Small World Photomicrography competition Nikon Instruments recently announced the winners and finalists for its 47th annual Small World Photomicrography competition.
Thousands of images were submitted from around the world. A panel of judges including Hank Green, Dr. Nsikan Akpan of New York Public Radio, and Dr. Hesper Rego from Yale School of Medicine selected the pool of 100 winners and honorable mentions.
The First Place prize was awarded to Jason Kirk. Kirk captured around 200 images of a southern live oak leaf's trichromes using a custom-made microscope system that combines color filtered transmitted light with diffused reflected light. He then stacked them to produce the final result.
'The lighting side of it was complicated,' he reveals. 'Microscope objectives are small and have a very shallow depth of focus. I couldn’t just stick a giant light next to the microscope and have the lighting be directional. It would be like trying to light the head of a pin with a light source that's the size of your head. Nearly impossible. ' Jason admits he edited the color temperature and hue in post-production to help illustrate the different elements in the image.
Nikon Small World was created to show how the world of art and science unite under a microscope. All winning and honorable mentions can be viewed in the competition's website.
1st Place: Jason Kirk
School: Baylor College of Medicine
Department: Optical Imaging & Vital Microscopy Core
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
About the Image: Trichome (white appendages) and stomata (purple pores) on a southern live oak leaf.
Techique: Image Stacking
Magnification: 60X (Objective Lens Magnification)
2nd Place: Esmeralda Paric & Holly Stefen
School: Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie University
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Location: Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia
About the Image: A microfluidic device containing 300k networking neurons in 2 isolated populations. Both sides were treated with a unique virus and bridged by axons.
Technique: Fluorescence
Magnification: 40X (Objective Lens Magnification)
3rd Place: Frank Reiser
School: Nassau Community College
Department: Biology
Location: Garden City, New York, USA
About the Image: Rear leg, claw, and respiratory trachea of a louse (Haematopinus suis).
Technique: Darkfield, Image Stacking
Magnification: 5X (Objective Lens Magnification)
4th Place: Paula Diaz
School: MinusPain, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Department: Physiology
Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
About this Image: Sensory neuron from an embryonic rat.
Technique: Fluorescence
Magnification: 10X (Objective Lens Magnification)
7th Place: Dr. Tong Zhang & Dr. Paul Stoodley
School: The Ohio State University
Department: Campus Microscopy & Imaging Facility
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
About the Image: Head of a tick.
Technique: Confocal
Magnification: 10X (Objective Lens Magnification)
8th Place: Dr. Amy Engevik
School: Medical University of South Carolina
Department: Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
Location: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
About the Image: Cross section of mouse intestine
Technique: Fluorescence
Magnification: 10X (Objective Lens Magnification)
10th Place: S
Location: Saint Lys, Haute - Garonne, France
About the Image: Vein and scales on a butterfly wing (Morpho didius)
Technique: Image Stacking, Reflected Light
Magnification: 20X (Objective Lens Magnification)
12th Place: Jakub Sumbal
School: Masaryk University
Department: Histology and Embryology
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
About the Image: Breast organoid showing contractile myoepithelial cells (blue) crawling on secretory breast cells (red).
Technique: Confocal
Magnification: 40X (Objective Lens Magnification)
13th Place: Dr. Felice Placenti
Specialty: FP Nature and Landscape Photography
Location: Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy
About this Image: Cotton fabric with pollen grains.
Technique: Darkfield, Image Stacking
Magnification: 10X (Objective Lens Magnification)
14th Place: Dr. Joern N. Hopke
Location: Waban, Massachusetts, USA
About this Image: Snowflake
Technique: Image Stacking
Magnification: 4X (Objective Lens Magnification)
17th Place: Martin Kaae Kristiansen
Location: Aalborg, Nordjylland, Denmark
About the Image: Filamentous strands of Nostoc cyanobacteria captured inside a gelatinous matrix.
Technique: Image Stacking, Polarized Light
Magnification: 4X (Objective Lens Magnification)
19th Place: Billie Hughes
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
About this Image: Calcite crystal inclusion suspended in a spinel gemstone.
Technique: Darkfield, Image Stacking
Magnification: 40X (Objective Lens Magnification)
20th Place: Alison Pollack
Location: San Anselmo, California, USA
About this Image: Slime mold (Arcyria pomiformis).
Technique: Image Stacking, Reflected Light
Magnification: 10X (Objective Lens Magnification)
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