BioScapes - Internation Digital Imaging Competition
Olympus BioScapes 2004 Winners Gallery
The Olympus BioScapes 2004 winners and honorable mentions are displayed in this gallery. In order to view a larger version of the images (or to play videos), please click on the individual links.
- 1st Prize - Mr. Donald Pottle
Specimen: Healthy arteriole in eye, with tough, flexible elastin wall (pink), red blood cells (red) and supporting collagen fibers (web-like "netting," and yellow & green areas)
- 2nd Prize - Dr. Phillip Wharton
Specimen: Fungus rupturing surface of blueberry, 32 composite images, each made by combining 90 optical sections
- 3rd Prize - Mr. Daniel Kirilly
Specimen: Mutant follicle cells (green) expanding on the surface of fruit fly egg chamber
- 4th Prize - Dr. Jim Haseloff
Specimen: Horsetail fern sporangia
- 5th Prize - Mr. Thomas Deerinck
Specimen: Rat cerebellum, imaged with quantum dots (nanocrystals)
- 6th Prize - Mr. Ron Oldfield
Specimen: Hairs on Tilia americana (basswood)
- 7th Prize - Mr. Michael Dingley
Specimen: Micrasterias, each one-celled Desmid consists of two half cells that are mirror images of one another
- 8th Prize - Mr. Wim van Egmond
Specimen: Living Volvox colony (green algae)
- 9th Prize - Mr. Harold Taylor
Specimen: Poppy flowerhead showing immature seeds
- 10th Prize - Mr. Werner Zuschratter
Specimen: Hippocampal neurons
Prize Winners
- Dr. Paul Andrews
Specimen: Kidney cell in mitosis, showing actin
- Dr. Roger Bick
Specimen: Skin follicle
- Dr. Nicolás Cuenca
Specimen: Monkey retina showing cones
- Mr. Thomas Deerinck
Specimen: Rat hippocampus
- Mr. Stefan Eberhard
Specimen: Palmitic acid
- Mr. Brian Ford
Specimen: Head louse
- Mr. Brian Ford
Specimen: Flea
- Dr. Jim Haseloff
Specimen: Composite image of a bamboo plant stem
- Dr. Jan Huisken
Specimen: Muscles in a Medaka embryo
- Mr. Daniel Kirilly
Specimen: Two Drosophila ovarioles
- Dr. Ales Kladnik
Specimen: Glandular hair on leaf of carnivorous plant Drosera (sundew)
- Dr. Michael Klein
Specimen: Osteoporosis in vertebra showing 3 microfractures
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Water boatman hind leg, showing the bug's specialized hairs and spines for swimming
- Dr. Brian Matsumoto and Mr. Will Casavan
Specimen: 3D rendering of Obelia, a common but little-known ocean organism
- Mr. Jeffrey Mellott
Specimen: Negative image of Pyramidal cells stained for the SMI-32 antibody
- Mr. Joshua Nordberg and Mr. Christopher English
Specimen: Human epithelial cell in mitosis, fluorescently labeled for alpha tubulin, gamma tubulin and DNA
- Mr. Ron Oldfield
Specimen: Bone section, ground thin
- Mr. Ron Oldfield
Specimen: Lily anther
- Mr. Mark Ross
Specimen: Gut of transgenic GFP rat showing actin (red) and nuclei (blue)
- Dr. James Sanzo
Specimen: Human retina with rods (red), cones (green), nuclei (blue)
- Dr. Carl Simon
Specimen: Osteoblast cells adhering to polymer spherulite showing nuclei, cell membranes
- Mr. Harry Taylor
Specimen: Dahlia flowerhead
- Mr. Spike Walker
Specimen: Cat flea
- Dr. Torsten Wittmann
Specimen: Dividing rat kangaroo kidney epithelial cells in metaphase
- Dr. Torsten Wittmann
Specimen: Actin and microtubule cytoskeleton and cell nucleus in differentiating rat pheochromocytoma cells