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Scientific American presents a supplemental selection of outstanding images entered in the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest by the great masters of the microscope
November 17, 2010
This portrait of dung fungi growing on a cow pile won Mike Crutchley, of Pembrokeshire, Wales, an honorable mention in this year's Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition....[More]
M. Reza Dadpour of the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Tabriz, Iran, placed fifth in the competition with this image of a weedy flower's bud (genus Tribulus )....[More]
This azalea lace bug ( Stephanitis pyrioides ) was photographed by Charles Krebs of Issaquah, Wash., using reflected illumination and 120 shots with different focal planes....[More]
Robert Lavigne of Montréal was awarded an honorable mention for this image of a polycystine radiolarian (a protozoan that produces a mineral skeleton), which he created using oblique illumination with deconvolution....[More]
The mouth of this living lancelet (not a vertebrate, but a close relative) is protected by a sieve of buccal cirri, filaments that sense the environment and capture food particles....[More]
This flower cluster bud belongs to an Astragalus compactus . Somayeh Naghiloo, of the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Tabriz in Iran, assembled this image from 80 shots he took with epi-illumination....[More]
Gerhard Rohringer of Santa Barbara, Calif., photographed a live, unstained Epistylis plicatilis protozoan (with its stalk) using differential interference contrast, earning an honorable mention....[More]
Mike Samworth of Catterick Garrison, U.K., received an honorable mention for this image of the inside of a sterile wound dressing, captured using polarized light....[More]
This differential interference microscopy (at 100x magnification) image shows the surface of a paramecium protozoan, with three water vacuoles in the process of contracting....[More]
Spike Walker of Penkridge, England, received an honorable mention for this image of Prosthogonimus macrorchis , a poultry flatworm parasite. Walker used Rheinberg illumination, a variant of dark-field microscopy in which the subject is shot against a blue screen....[More]
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