The world exaggerates through a microscope

A leaf, drops of water on a soap cake or white snowflakes that are seen through a microscope lens are impressive and beautiful.


Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya at Metropolitan Tokyo University, Japan, was awarded the photo of a watery soap cake taken from a microscope.


Martin Spitaler and Anna Schnitger at the Immunogenomics Laboratory of Imperial University London, England, captured the enlarged image of a mosquito.


Dr. Jorge Bernardino de la Serna at the University of Southern Denmark has recorded images of different membranes.


The electronc gas image was taken by Pedro Barrios-Perez at the Microstructure Science Institute in Canada.


Photo of Daniel Pregibon at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, about molecules in DNA research.


Photographs of snowflakes were magnified 10 times and viewed under polarized light, captured by Jesper Gronne in Silkeborg, Denmark.


Dr. Jeffery Bowen at Bridgewater University, USA, recorded an image of an exaggerated dragonfly and transformed it through computer software.


Christian Gautier from Avignon, France, showed a cross-section of a cedar tree leaf.


Dr. Stephen Lowry of the University of Ulster, England, won the award with an impressive image of a snail's tongue.