One of the world's most popular camera, Olympus, is doing its best to support the hobby of avid photographers as they initiated the BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition, which celebrated its ninth year in sponsoring the event.
The competition, Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition recognizes outstanding images of life science specimens captured through light microscopes, using any magnification, any illumination technique and any brand of equipment.
Shown below are the images of 20 winners and honourable mentions from the competition:
1. Detail of a pod of flowering legume Scorpius muricatus
2. Trout Alevin
3. Tintinnid ciliate of the marine plankton, Petalotricha ampulla
4. Cross-section of bulrush (Juncus sp.)
5. Stink bug eggs
6. Two damsel bugs (Nabis sp.)
7. Protozoan Elphidium crispum
8. Living diatom Mediopyxis helysia
9. Eye of a damselfly
10. Hydroid collected from kelp sample
11. Sporangium of the slime mold Craterium minutum
12. Sporangium of the slime mold Physarum leucophaeum
13. Spherical colonies of Nostos commune
14. Live green brain coral (Goniastrea sp.), under water
15. Rotifer Floscularia ringens feeding
16. Protozoan Elphidium crispum
17. Young sporangia of slime mold Arcyria stipata
18. Weevil Eupholus, dried thorax scales
19. Fruity ovaries and uterus
20. Cat tooth in cross section
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