Microscope Photography II

It's that time of the year again! Submissions are in and the 2011 winners are due to be announced soon. Amongst many photo competitions this is my favorite. While I wait for the judges to browse through the candidates I wanted to share few of last year's winners.

18th Place: Soap film (150x). Incident brightfield microscopy by Gerd Guenther (Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany).

20th Place: Crystallized melt of sulfur and acetanilide (10x). Transmitted light, crossed polars by Dr. John Hart (Hart3D Films and Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sci. Univ. Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA).

12th Place (left): Juvenile bivalve mollusc, Lima sp. (10x). Darkfield microscopy by Dr. Gregory Rouse (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA).

7th Place (right): Endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibers, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei (2500x). Fluorescent confocal microscopy by Yongli Shan (The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA).

1st Place: Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100x). Fluorescent microscopy by Jonas King (Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee, USA).