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Nikon's Small World Gallery
1999 Competition Prize Winners
Utilizing contrast enhancing techniques such as fluorescence, differential interference contrast (DIC), polarized light, darkfield, oblique and Rheinberg illumination, the 1999 contest winners provide an exciting glimpse of an unseen world. The panel of judges for the silver anniversary of the Small World contest were Todd James (National Geographic), William K. Barnett (American Museum of Natural History), Michael W. Davidson (Florida State University), Martin L. Scott (Scientific Imaging), and Daniel Farkas (University of Pittsburgh).
First Prize
Alexey Khodjakov
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Albany, New York, USA
Newt lung cell in mitosis (5 different structures) (240x)
Fluorescence Second Prize
Lars Bech
Naarden, The Netherlands
Sildenafil (Viagra ®) dissolved in ammonia (50x)
Polarized Light Third Prize
Daphne Zbaeren-Colbourn
Bern, Switzerland
Rhizophora mangle (mangrove) leaf (40x)
Fluorescence Fourth Prize
Christian Frie
Institute of Biochemistry II
Koln, Germany
Chilodonella uncinata (parasite) (100x)
Differential Interference Contrast Fifth Prize
Daphne Zbaeren-Colbourn
Bern, Switzerland
Cross section of Liana stem (climbing tropical plant) (40x)
Brightfield and Fluorescence Sixth Prize
Jennifer Waters Shuler, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Mammalian epithelial cell (120x)
Fluorescence Seventh Prize
Jean-François Gonnet
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Villeurbanne, France
Water droplet on a Salvinia natans leaf (aquatic plant) (10x)
Darkfield Eighth Prize
Carlos Jiménez Pérez
Entorno S.L.
Madrid, Spain
Red ink mixed with acid, heated (100x)
Mixed Technique Ninth Prize
Carlos Jiménez Pérez
Entorno S.L.
Madrid, Spain
Mixture of natural oils (100x)
Mixed Technique Tenth Prize
Anna S. Teetsov
McCrone Associates, Inc.
Westmont, Illinois, USA
Polypropylene (a plastic) melted with phthalocyanine blue pigment (50x)
Polarized Light Eleventh Prize
Stefan Eberhard
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, USA
Crystallized cyanocobalamin ( Vitamin B12 ) (16x)
Polarized Light Twelfth Prize
Norm Barker
Department of Pathology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Fossil cast of wood with replacement silicates (20x)
Brightfield Thirteenth Prize
Alexey Khodjakov
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Albany, New York, USA
Newt lung cell in mitosis (3 different structures) (240x)
Fluorescence Fourteenth Prize
Jacques Arthaud
E.N.I.T.A.
National School of Agronomy
Gradignan, France
Crystallized Glucidoral® (diabetes medicine) (36x)
Polarized Light Fifteenth Prize
Margaret Oechsli
James Graham Brown Cancer Center
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Crystallized Niacinamine (Vitamin B3) (8x)
Polarized Light Sixteenth Prize
Darwin Dale
Lansing, Michigan, USA
Oligochaete (water warm) (5x)
Rheinberg Illumination Seventeenth Prize
Guillermo Guzman Barbosa
CIAT-Light Microscopy
Laboratory
Cali, Colombia
Chrysalis butterfly exuviae (2x)
Oblique Incidence Eighteenth Prize
Göran Ocklind
Division of Pharmaceutics
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
Various species of freshwater algae (115x)
Confocal Reflection and Fluorescence Nineteenth Prize
Karl E. Deckart
Eckental, Germany
Metal surface used in watch making (2.5x)
Brightfield Twentieth Prize
James E. Hayden RBP
Bio-Graphics
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA
Danio rerio (zebrafish) head (4.5x)
Darkfield
The Nikon Small World Competition is open to anyone with an interest in photography through the microscope. Truly international in scope, entries have been received from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Winners have included both professionals and hobbyists.
The subject matter for this year's contest is unrestricted and any type of light microscopy technique is acceptable, including phase contrast, polarized light, fluorescence, interference contrast, darkfield, confocal, deconvolution, and mixed techniques. Entries submitted to Nikon are then judged by an independent panel of experts who are recognized authorities in the area of photomicrography and photography. These entries are judged on the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.
For the first time, entries may be submitted either on film (in 35 millimeter transparency format) or uploaded digitally through your web browser. The links below provide options for entering the contest.
Digital Entries - Entrants may enter Nikon's Small World Competition by uploading digital images directly to our servers. Before you begin, read the Contest Rules and prepare your images for uploading according to the instructions. You may also download a 2008 Competition Entry Form in portable document format for submission of entries by mail.
Prize List - Winners will receive one of 20 prizes, sorted according to rank in the competition. First place is a vacation trip valued at $5000 (US) or the equivalent amount of photographic, scientific, or industrial equipment and accessories at their suggested retail selling prices in the USA. Honorable mention winners will receive an 16 x 20-inch print of their entries.
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