BioScapes - Internation Digital Imaging Competition
Olympus BioScapes 2008 Winners Gallery
The Olympus BioScapes 2008 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. Spike Walker
Specimen: "Fairy Fly" Wasp
- 2nd Prize - Mr. Thomas Shearer
Specimen: Agatized Petrified Wood
- 3rd Prize - Dr. Stephen Nagy
Specimen: Actinoptychus heliopelta
- 4th Prize - Dr. Albert Pan
Specimen: Larval "Brainbow" Zebrafish
- 5th Prize - Dr. Shirley Owens
Specimen: Silphium perfoliatum
- 6th Prize - Mr. David Walker
Specimen: Snail Radula
- 7th Prize - Dr. Neal Melvin
Specimen: Adult Mouse Hippocampus
- 8th Prize - Mr. Gerd Günther
Specimen: Trichodina pediculus
- 9th Prize - Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Chrysochroa fulgens (Jewel Beetle)
- 10th Prize - Dr. Petr Znachor
Specimen: "Star-like" Colonial Diatom
Prize Winners
- Mr. David Almquist
Specimen: Utricularia (Bladderwort)
- Dr. Clelia Baccari
Specimen: Grape Stem
- Dr. Page Baluch
Specimen: Morus alba (White Mulberry)
- Dr. Page Baluch
Specimen: Moss
- Ms. Tora Bardal
Specimen: Lobster Eggs
- Dr. Sondra Barrett
Specimen: White Wine
- Mr. Massimo Brizzi
Specimen: Copepod Female with Eggs
- Dr. T. Bromage & Dr. A. Perez-Ochoa
Specimen: Human Molar Tooth
- Dr. J. Bussador do Amaral & Dr. G. Machado-Santelli
Specimen: Ant Thoracic Salivary Glands
- Dr. Sherry Clendenon
Specimen: Podocyte Network of Whole Glomerulus
- Dr. Constantin Constantinoiu & Dr. Bronwyn Venus
Specimen: Tick Feeding on Cattle Host
- Mr. Karl Deckart
Specimen: Soap Bubbles
- Mr. Karl Deckart
Specimen: Soap Bubbles
- Mr. Thomas Deerinck
Specimen: Cortex Vasculature
- Dr. Angel Manteca Fernandez
Specimen: Streptomyces antibioticus Hyphae
- Ms. Michael Franklin
Specimen: Cross Section of Young Pine Stem
- Mr. Christian Gautier
Specimen: Cat Tongue
- Mr. Raul Gonzalez
Specimen: Heliocarpus apendiculatus Seeds
- Mr. Ralph Grimm
Specimen: Eye of Honeybee
- Mr. Gerd Günther
Specimen: Arcella
- Mr. Gerd Günther
Specimen: Mosquito Wing Scales
- Mr. Gerd Günther
Specimen: Volvox Aureus with Daughter Colonies
- Dr. Patrick Hickey
Specimen: Neurospora crassa
- Dr. Patrick Hickey
Specimen: Growing Mycelium of Neurospora crassa
- Dr. Jeffrey Holt
Specimen: Sensory Epithelium of Mouse Utricle
- Dr. Ke Hu
Specimen: Toxoplasma gondii
- Dr. Ke Hu
Specimen: Toxoplasma gondii
- Dr. Eric Kalkman
Specimen: Neurospora crassa
- Dr. Eric Kalkman
Specimen: Hyphae of Neurospora crassa
- Dr. Daniel Kalman
Specimen: E. coli Actin Pedestals
- Dr. Aleš Kladnik
Specimen: Coral Skeleton
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Chrysochroa fulgens Ventral Side
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Campanella umbellaria Colony
- Mr. Edwin Lee
Specimen: Adhesive Droplets on Orb Weaver Web
- Dr. Sara Lindsay
Specimen: Muscles in Marine Worm Head
- Dr. Steve Lowry
Specimen: Palmitic Acid
- Dr. Steve Lowry
Specimen: Mature Larch Wood
- Dr. Ana Macias
Specimen: Drosophila Genital Discs
- Dr. David McDonald
Specimen: Fibroblast Expressing Ebola Virus
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Mantis Shrimp Larva
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Brachiolaria Larva
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Pelagosphera Larva
- Dr. Carlos Alberto Muņoz
Specimen: Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds
- Dr. Carlos Alberto Muņoz
Specimen: Denisiella colombiana Head
- Mr. Earl Nishiguchi
Specimen: Live Daphnia
- Dr. Shirley Owens
Specimen: Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Ragweed)
- Ms. Alexandra Pendjiky
Specimen: Yellow Ant Head
- Mr. Aaron Quyn
Specimen: Human Adenoma
- Dr. Greg Rouse
Specimen: Flatworm
- Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya
Specimen: Soap Film
- Mr. Brenton Short
Specimen: Donor Myogenesis in Muscle
- Mr. Victor Sýkora
Specimen: Ulmas glabra Seed
- Mr. Victor Sýkora
Specimen: Echinocystis lobata Detail of the Fruit
- Mr. Victor Sýkora
Specimen: Valeriana dioica Seed
- Mr. Victor Sýkora
Specimen: Aurinia saxatilis Seeds
- Mr. Anand Krishna Tiwari
Specimen: Sensory Neurons in Drosophila Larva Eye
- Dr. Michael Veeman
Specimen: Juvenile Ascidiella aspersa
- Mr. Bruno Vellutini
Specimen: Skeleton of Clypeaster subdepressus
- Mr. David Walker
Specimen: Arrow Worm (Sagitta)
- Mr. Spike Walker
Specimen: Peacock Feather
- Mr. Spike Walker
Specimen: Braula
- Dr. Bernd Walz
Specimen: Living Zoothamnium pelagicum Colony
- Dr. Bernd Walz
Specimen: Living Radiolarian
- Dr. Bernd Walz
Specimen: Living Rotifer
- Mr. Erik Weidling
Specimen: Rotifer Brachionus quadridentatus
- Dr. Giuliano Zanchetta
Specimen: Liquid Crystalline DNA
- Mr. Solvin Zankl
Specimen: Chironomidae Fly
- Mr. Solvin Zankl
Specimen: Euchirella
- Mr. Tong Zhang
Specimen: Xenopus Tadpole
- Dr. Petr Znachor
Specimen: Colonial Freshwater Diatom