Nikon has announced the Winners, Honorable Mentions, and Images of Distinction for the 2021 Small World Photomicrography Competition. More than 1,900 entries were received from 88 countries in 2021, the 47th year of the competition.
Nikon’s Small World Celebrating 47 years of images captured by the light microscope. Nikon’s Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography. The video competition, entitled Small World In Motion encompasses any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope.
Submit your work for the 2022 Photomicrography Competition, the deadline is Apr 30, 2022.
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#1 1st Place by Jason Kirk

Trichome (white appendages) and stomata (purple pores) on a southern live oak leaf
#2 3rd Place by Frank Reiser

Rear leg, claw, and respiratory trachea of a louse (Haematopinus suis)
#3 10th Place by Sébastien Malo

Vein and scales on a butterfly wing (Morpho didius)
#4 13th Place by Dr. Felice Placenti

Cotton fabric with pollen grains
#5 17th Place by Martin Kaae Kristiansen

Filamentous strands of Nostoc cyanobacteria captured inside a gelatinous matrix
#6 Honorable Mention by Álmos Becz

Water flea swimming near a bell animalcule (microscopic ciliate)
#7 Honorable Mention by Dr. Andrew Mark Posselt

Hind leg of a male frog-legged beetle (Sagra buqueti)
#8 Honorable Mention by Marco Retana

Robber fly (Asilidae)
#9 Honorable Mention by Dr. Fred Terveer

Red forest ant (Formica rufa)
#10 Image of Distinction by Charles B. Krebs

Pollen grain on a crocus flower petal
#11 Image of Distinction by Daniel Knop

Clownfish (Amphiprion percula) embryos in several developmental stages
#12 Image of Distinction by Dr. Guillermo López López

Hibiscus flower anther
#13 Image of Distinction by Dr. Enno Merivee

Mosquito wing (Culiseta annulata)
#14 Image of Distinction by Dr. Dimitrios Zampelis

Eurasian Copper Underwing moth caterpillar (Amphipyra pyramidea) hatching and eating the shell of an empty egg
#15 Image of Distinction by Dr. Razvan Cornel Constantin

Red velvet mite (Trombidiidae)
#16 Image of Distinction by Thorben Danke

Sleeping cuckoo wasp (Crysis sp.)
#17 Image of Distinction by Oliver Dum

Eye of a horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus)
#18 Image of Distinction by Jacek Myslowski

Algae (Netrium and Micrasterias jenneri)
#19 Image of Distinction by Nathan Renfro

Surface texture of a synthetic sapphire crystal with a triangular platinum crystal contaminant
#20 Image of Distinction by Ye Fei Zhang

Butterfly eggs
#21 Image of Distinction by Dr. Marcel Clemens

Antenna of a moth (Catocala fraxini)
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