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Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012 16:00
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Nikon International Small World photography contest was launched in 1974. In this contest amazing pictures are captured using microscope known as photomicrographs. The results of the competition held in 2012 were announced on October, 23. In this competition every year a panel of judges select top 20 photographs plus some honorable mentions.

  •  This picture contains the development of bat embryos of the species Molossus rufus, the black mastiff bat which was clicked by Dorit Hockman. In this image the photographer placed the embryos of different ages side-by-side that received the 20th place in the competition.
  • 20 Place 21440 1 Hockman.jpg1351000919 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012   The photo clicked by Dr. W. Ryan Williamson received the fourth prize. It is a space-y photo of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) visual system halfway through pupal development. Image is showing the fruit fly’s retina represented by golden color, photoreceptor axons represented by blue color and brain is represented by green color. 04 Place 21756 1 Williamson.jpg1351000268 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012
  • This photograph was clicked by Dr. Jennifer L. Peters & Dr. Michael R. Taylor which was awarded as the first prize. It is the photograph of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebra fish embryo.  01 Place 21844 1 Peters.jpg1351000176 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012
  •  Geir Drange’s picture which received the seventh prize was clicked using Reflected Light and Image Stacking Techniques at five times magnification. It is the picture of a Myrmica sp. (ant) carrying its larva captured using.

09 myrmica ant jpg 162007 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012

  • Dr. Michael John Bridge of University of Utah HSC Core Research Facilities – Cell Imaging Lab captured the picture of Eye organ of a Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) third-instar larvae pictured in the Confocal technique at 60 times magnification, received seventh place.

07 eye organ jpg 162006 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012

  • The image clicked by Honorio Cócera-La Parra from University of Valencia Museum of Geology of Geology Department showing Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, Spain in the Transmitted Light technique at 18 times magnification received fifth place.

05 cacoxenite jpg 162007 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012

  • This image is clicked with the Structured Illumination Microsopy (SIM) technique at 63 times magnification received the third prize. It is the picture of a Human bone cancer (osteosarcoma) showing actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (yellow), and DNA (blue) captured by Dr. Dylan Burnette of National Institutes of Health.03 human bone cancer jpg 162007 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012
  • This is the image receiving second prize was captured by Walter Piorowski clicked at six times magnification using Reflected Light, Figer Optics and Image Stacking Techniques. It is the picture of a live newborn Lynx spiderlings.

  02 newborn spiderlings jpg 162006 Nikon International Small World Photography Contest 2012

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