2013 Photomicrography Competition

Raphigaster nebulosa (stink bug)

Kurt Wirz

Location
Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Technique
Image Stacking

Dried egg white

Yanping Wang

Affiliation
Beijing Planetarium
Beijing, China
Technique
Nomarski Differential Interference Contrast
Magnification
25x

Diatoms

Peter Woitschikowski

Location
Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Technique
Darkfield
Magnification
625x

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.