The World of the Small

The winners for the 35th Annual Nikon Small World Competition are in

Since 1974, Nikon has been given annual awards to the best photomicrographs -- that is, photographs of things taken through a microscope.

From flower stems to fish ovaries, from cotton fibers to magmatic rock, the winning images of the 35th Annual Nikon Small World Competition give just a "tiny" indication of the vastness of the microscopic world.

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