Nikon Celebrates Our Tiny World

Nikon’s International Small World Competition is on and open for submissions. The photography competition – which kicked off in 1974 – serves as a showcase for photomicrographers from the scientific discipline to share and celebrate their work through a light microscope. According to Nikon;

A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science or industry. But a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension and appreciation.

The competition accepts entries from international contributors, both professional and recreational — the photos need only be taken through the microscope. Subject matter is unrestricted, as is light microscopy technique. Entries are judged by an expert panel, and will be accepted through April 30, 2012.

We love this brand-supported competition for celebrating a not often-regarded specialty within photography — one that benefits the scientific community and humankind (microscopy is inclusive of medical research), and that surprisingly captures an astonishing beauty. And of course, it subtly emphasizes the brand’s role in facilitating photomicrography – without requiring that the entries be Nikon-based.

Nikon Small World