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The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition honors the world’s most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects captured through light microscopes, using any magnification, any illumination technique and any brand of equipment. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today, work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world. via Olympus BioScapes

Credits for image above:
1st Place – Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology
Munich, Germany
Specimen: Frontal section of Phalangium opilio (Harvestman/Daddy longlegs) eyes
Technique: Confocal

2nd Place – Mr. Thomas Deerinck
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
Specimen: Rat Hippocampus
Technique: Multiphoton

3rd Place – Mr. James Nicholson
Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility, Fort Johnson Marine Lab
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Specimen: Solitary coral, Fungia sp
Technique: Reflected illumination/epifluorescence without barrier filter

4th Place – Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer
Kiel, Germany
Specimen: Licmophora juegensii on red alga
Technique: Differential interference contrast

5th Place – Dr. M.R. Dadpour
Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Specimen: Flower primordium of Tribulus sp
Technique: Epi-Illumination, 100 z-stacked images

6th Place – Dr. Jerzy Gubernator
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw, Poland
Specimen: Spirogyra
Technique: Brightfield

7th Place – Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology
Munich, Germany
Specimen: Eye of a common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)
Technique: Confocal, series projection

8th Place – Dr. Jan Michels
Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Institute of Zoology
Kiel, Germany
Specimen: Adhesive pad of the first leg of a beetle (Clytus sp.)
Technique: Autofluorescence

9th Place – Ms. Yanping Wang
Beijing Planetarium
Beijing, China
Specimen: Seeds of wild flowers
Technique: Brightfield reflected light

10th Place – Mr. Laurie Knight
Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
Specimen: Weevil (poss. Curculio nucum or Curculio glandium)
Technique: Episcopic illumination

All images and text are courtesy of Olympus BioScapes.