Nikon Small World Competition celebrates ‘tiny things’
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Nikon Small World Competition celebrates ‘tiny things’
We have read about different photo contests, that celebrate funny animals or beautiful birds. The Nikon Small World Competition is also a photo contest. But it is slightly different. It awards photos taken of tiny things through microscopy—the use of microscopes to view objects.
This is the 47th year of the contest, and it is organised by Nikon. Nikon is a Japanese company that is well known for making products such as cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, and microscopes.
The first prize winner of the Nikon Small World Competition this year is a man named Jason Kirk. He used a special microscope to capture 200 individual images of a southern live oak leaf. Then, he combined them to create a single amazing image. (See the image above)
Neuroscientists Esmeralda Paric and Holly Stefen from Australia won the second prize. Their photo is of 300,000 networking neurons (nerve cells of the brain and nervous system), split into two populations.
What does a neuroscientist study?
Neuroscientists study and research the nervous system. The nervous system is composed of the brain, spinal cord and nerve cells.
Other winners
The third place went to a photo of the left side of an individual hog louse, a type of lice insect.
Moreover, one of the images at the contest even shows a stained-glass slice of meteorite under the microscope.
See all the winners of the Nikon Small World Competition here.
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