Small World In Macro-Photos

17-fold increase in mouse embryo with the placenta in the last stage of development.

First place in the competition photographers Small World, conducted by Nikon. The competition includes photographs, visible only through the lens of the microscope.

Second place. Fetal brain-zebra fish (zebrafish) three days old. Increased 20 times

Third place. Rotifer - microscopic marine animal magnified 400 times. From a series of portraits of microorganisms.

In this photo marine diatom (type of phytoplankton) are connected to polysiphonia - red seaweed. Increase - 100x.

Marine microplankton in the sea water. Needle's eye - to scale.

Water scavenger beetle larvae. Complex water beetle's head says a lot about his predatory nature. Increase - 100x.

Frog embryos. This image was made to illustrate the distribution of the protein, known as Sox3, which plays a crucial role in the early stages of embryonic frog.

River leech. The abdominal nerve cord and muscles river leeches increased by 25 times.

Wheat cultivation increased by 20 times

Cut ivory. To show the structure of ivory, a photographer linked together 16 separate images.