Nikon Small World is widely regarded as the leading forum for recognising the art, proficiency and photographic excellence involved in photomicrography, or the art of photography through a light microscope. Each year, the competition attracts hundreds of vivid pictures revealing details of a world unseen by the naked eye. Founded in 1975, this year’s entries numbered almost 1,300 and were drawn from 72 countries.

First place
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Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis) (confocal, 63x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Grigorii Timin & Dr. Michel Milinkovitch/Nikon

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Fourth place
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Pholcus phalangioides, or the long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (image stacking, 3x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Andrew Posselt/Nikon

Honourable mention
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A butterfly egg (image stacking, 10x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Zhang Ye Fei/Nikon

Sixth place
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Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down (brightfield, image stacking, 2.5x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Ole Bielfeldt/Nikon

10th place
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A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle (image stacking, 3.7x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Marek Sutkowski/Nikon

Fifth place
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A slime mould of the Lamproderma genus (image stacking, reflected light, 10x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Alison K Pollack/Nikon

Ninth place
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Portrait of a man in uniform made with liquid crystal mixture (image stacking, polarised light, 40x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Marek Sutkowski/Nikon

17th place
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Tail fin of a zebrafish larva with peripheral nerves, seen in green, and extracellular matrix, seen in violet (confocal, 10x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Daniel Wehner & Julia Kolb/Nikon

13th place
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Agatised dinosaur bone (image stacking, 60x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Randy Fullbright/Nikon

16th place
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Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip (fluorescence, 10x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Olivier Leroux/Nikon

19th place
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Bacterial biofilm on a human tongue cell (confocal, 63x objective lens magnification). Photograph: Dr. Tagide deCarvalho/Nikon





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