Nikon Small World winners announced: these are the best microphotographs of the year
Miscellaneous / / October 18, 2023
From close-ups of a lighting match to heart-patterned checkered patterns and caffeine crystals.
Jury of the international photo competition Nikon Small World determined 20 winners for 2023. This award selects the best images taken through a microscope. This allows us to magnify and demonstrate details of the world around us that are usually hidden from human eyes.
The Grand Prix
This year's best image shows the optic disc of a rodent. The yellow areas that dominate the photo represent astrocytes - cells of the central nervous system. Proteins are shown in red, and retinal vessels are shown in blue.
2nd place
Silver was awarded for the image of a lighted match. The photographer managed to capture a process that lasts only one eight-thousandth of a second.
3rd place
Third place was taken by a microscopic portrait of breast cancer cells, in the center of which you can see a clear heart-shaped pattern.
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