From BoingBoing

The Olympus Bioscapes International Digital Imaging Competition is an annual biological microscopy competition. First Prize is a selection of Olympus camera and microscope equipment worth $5,000. The contest is closed for this year, and the winners have been announced. The images are brilliant fluorescent miniature landscapes and portraits. 

The image shown is a water flea, photographed by  Dr. Jan Michels, from the University of Kiel in Germany.

You can view the full gallery here.

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Wired Science™ and Nikon™ hold an annual contest for the world's best microscopic photography, and this year's winners are truly amazing. There is a heavy slant towards flourescent or color enhanced microscopy for the vivid colors they produce, but there are some very nicely stained images in the historical winners categories.

From the Wired Science article:

" Winning the popular vote online out of 137 finalists was [this image]... by Dennis Breitsprecher of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Germany’s Hannover Medical School." 

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