This photo shows a very attractive graphics composition of a diatom as a round shape and two cruciform superimposed fragments of the spicules of sponges. These forms come from a strewn slide from Oamura, New Zealand. Diatoms are microscopic, unicellular algae whose cell wall is hard shells, designed as a glassy silicate.
2013 Photomicrography Competition
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Image of Distinction
Peter Woitschikowski
- Location
- Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Technique
- Magnifaction
- 625