A Melbourne researcher has won third prize in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®, the world’s foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects.
Now in its sixth year, the Olympus BioScapes competition honours images and movies of human, plant and animal subjects as captured through light microscopes. Any life science subject is eligible, and entries are judged based on the science they depict, their aesthetics (beauty and impact of the image), and their technical merit.
Third Prize this year went to a movie called 'Sexual Attraction in Spyrogyra', by Dr Jeremy Pickett-Heaps of the University of Melbourne, Australia. It depicts reproduction in simple algae captured in time-lapse video over two hours.
Other winning and honorable mention images reflect a never-ending fascination with the influence of science in everyday life, including surprising views of fossils, jellyfish, spiders, flowers, mosquitoes and dinosaur bones.
The BioScapes Competition had entries from 62 countries and winners from five continents.
All images, including Dr Pickett-Heaps' movie, and the names of all honourees may be viewed online at www.olympusbioscapes.com.
Pictured here is the first prize image - a glowing, eerily beautiful image of a water flea with its radiant green “crown of thorns” by Dr Jan Michels, a zoologist at the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany.
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