Nikon Small World Photo Contest 2011

A few days ago have been declared winners of Nikon Small World Photo Contest, 2011. The photographs, sent to the contest this year, an amazing variety of living beings and natural phenomena, ranging from the eyes of freshwater shrimp to fine scales on butterfly wings, snowflakes, and cancer cells.

Head and eye freshwater shrimp, photography Jose R. Almodovar from the center of Microscopy, Department of Biology, University of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

 Eyes Spider-horse,  made ​​a photo of Walter Piorkovski  Illinois.

 Dr. Douglas Clark, of San Francisco, California, presented to the contest this picture of a butterfly wing  scales (Cethosia Biblis)  in the light of incandescent lamps.

 Cancer cells, photographed with a magnification of 3,000 times. Photo of Thomas Dirinka of the National Center for Microscopy in La Jolla, California, took twelfth place.

 Ranked fourth  in the competition, a photograph taken by Dr. Robin Young of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the photo depicted liverworts (Lepidozia reptans)  with increased twenty-fold.

 Crystal  leucite crystals from volcanic rock, photo taken by Dr. Michael M. Wright from the Institute Steinmann, University of Bonn, Germany.

 Water flea  (Daphnia sp.) Among the green algae, photo taken by Dr. Ralf Wagner, from Dusseldorf, Germany.

 Pekka Honkanoshi, Finland, took this photograph of elongated flakes.

 Embryonic  pectoral fin Chiloscyllium plagiosum, spotted bamboo  shark, photographed Dr. Andrew Gillies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

 Which took  place in the competition  twentieth Douglas Moore of the University of "Wisconsin-Stevens Point" in Stevens  Point, Wisconsin. Moore in the photo - a sample of bone cells dinosaur fossil cell structure of animals that lived about 150 million years ago, photographed  with a magnification of 42 times.

 Charles  Krebs, and Washington,  took a picture of a water  boatman (Corixidae sp.), The reflected light.

 The eyes  of the male mosquito-tolstonozhki black  (Bibio Marci), the picture presented by Dr. David Maitland from Feltvella, UK.

 Formed  naturally by frost crystals that formed overnight on a fence at a temperature of -15 degrees  Celsius. Photo taken from Jasper GROENEWEGEN Silkeborg, Denmark.

 Fish louse (Argulus), photographed with a magnification of 60 times by Wim van Egmond Micropolitan Museum of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

 Dr. Torsten Wittmann of the University of California, San Francisco, presented to the contest this photo to  the endothelial cells of bovine pulmonary artery

 Close up of  velvet mite-photographed krasnotelka  (Eutrombidium rostratus), Photo  of Dr. David Maitland Feltvella, UK.

 Received  tenth place in the competition made ​​ with increasing 100-fold picture of freshwater flea (Daphnia Magna), presented by Joan Roll of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany.

 James H.  Nicholson Research Center  of the NOAA / NOS / NCCOS / CCEHBR in Charleston, South Carolina was 15th place with a photo of coral (Porites Lobata).