Striking Images From The Nikon Microscopy Small World Competition

Nikon Microscopy has published the top twenty entries from its 2006 Small World contest. There are a lot of beautiful shots in the set, and the two below should give you a sense of the range of the work presented there. Recommended!

Two m-plane sapphire substrates (200x)
Melissa K. Santala, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Brightfield

Seed of a Clematis vitalba shrub (a.k.a. Traveller's Joy) (2x)
Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
Darkfield