Gallery of ultra-beautiful micrographs won "Olympus BioScapes 2010" prize

Microscope / major endoscopeOlympusSponsored byOlympus BioScapes Digital Imaging CompetitionIs the world's largest microscopic photography contest for the subjects in the field of life sciences such as human beings and plants and animals.

We will introduce the top prize-winning works of the contest which became seventh year this year.

Pictures are from the following.Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition | Image Gallery - 2010

First place:The house beetleEyes (Munich ·Max Planck Institute of NeurobiologyPhotographing by Dr. Igor Siwanowicz)


Second place:RatofHippocampus(University of California, San Diego· Thomas Deerinck)


3rd place:CoralofFungia(Fort Johnson Institute of Oceanography, Mr. James Nicholson)


4th:Red algaeAboveLicmophora juegensii(diatomA kind of) (Germany ·keelMr. Wolfgang Bettighofer residing)


5th place:HAMABISHIFlower primordia (Iran ·University of TabrizDr. M. R. Dadpour)


6th place:Ao midoro(Poland·Wroclaw University· Dr. Jerzy Gubernator)


7th place:IttomboA kindCommon Blue Damselfly(Dr. Igor Siwanowicz of Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology who also won first place)


8th place:Lady beetleA kind of fore paw (Germany ·University of Kiel· Dr. Jan Michels)


9th place:Wild grass seeds (Beijing Planetarium· Yanping Wang)


10th place:WeevilProbablyCurculio nucumOrCurculio glandium)(England·KentMr. Laurie Knight living in)