King captured the photograph using a technique called fluorescence microscopy. The winning image looks like a two-toned modern art piece, but is actually a mosquito heart with muscles magnified 100 times. Judges awarded first prize to Jonas King, a Vanderbilt University graduate student. Entries ranged from the simple (an image of a snowflake 40 times its original size) to the bizarre (the photo of a female black aphid - a sap-sucking insect known as a plant louse - with multiple offspring visible inside its transparent body). Open to hobbyists and researchers, Nikon received more than 2,000 photo entries for this year’s contest. The contest’s subtext is that a high-powered lens can reveal an unseen natural world in breathtaking detail. The subject matter is tiny, but the winning images pack a punch. Then behold the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. Want to see a mosquito heart? A starfish embryo? The crystals in crystallized soy sauce?
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