
20 stunning microscopic photos from the Nikon Small World 2020 competition
We’ve chosen our favourites from this year’s winners.
The Nikon Small World Photography Competition is an annual celebration of all things teeny-weeny tiny, and gets us science photography fans very excited. Open to entries from professionals and amateurs alike, the subject matter is diverse and always a visual treat.
This year's crop of winners from the competition have just been announced, and there are some truly stunning images from a wide-range of visual disciplines. Here are some of the images that stood out for us.
Take a look at some of our other picture stories:
See-through Zebrafish - Overall Winner

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- Gotta scan 'em all: 9 other-worldly CT scans of fish
- The see-through frog and 6 other transparent animals that are stranger than fiction
Send In The Clowns - Second Place Overall

Salty Snail Tongue - Third Place Overall

Chameleon Embryo - Top 20 Images

Crystal Vision - Top 20 Images

Human Hair - Top 20 Images

Roller Weevil - Top 20 Images

Tight tights - Top 20 Images

Moth To A Microscope - Top 20 Images

Plain Batty - Top 20 Images

Phantom of the Larva - Honourable Mention

LCD Phone Screen - Honourable Mention

Shiver Me Timber Beetle - Honourable Mention

Vinyl countdown - Images of Distinction

Horse Fly - Images of Distinction

Into the Sunset - Images of Distinction

A Budding Photographer - Images of Distinction

Heads Up - Images of Distinction

Moth to a Flame - Images of Distinction

Authors

James Cutmore is the picture editor of BBC Science Focus Magazine, researching striking images for the magazine and on the website. He is also has a passion for taking his own photographs
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