Scale detail of Tench fish (Tinca tinca) from Russian lakes. This image was captured using oblique transmitted light. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Gloeotrichia, a colonial cyanobacterium. Filaments arrange themselves in starlike colonies. Large numbers of colonies can collect in freshwater lakes, forming blooms. Sixth Prize, 2005 Olympus BioSc...

Detail of a pod of flowering legume Scorpius muricatus. Stereomicroscopy, darkfield illumination. Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Prosthogonimus macrorchis, a flatworm poultry parasite, imaged with Rheinberg illumination. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®. Prosthogonimus macrorchis has a com...

Light micrograph of Volvox taken using Rheinberg illumination. Volvox form large (approximately 500 µm) spherical colonies that can contain up to 15,000 biflagellate, photosynthetic cells embedded i...

Nucleated erythrocytes from chicken were spread on water, the dispersed chromatin picked up on carbon-formvar grids, fixed with paraformaldehye, critical point dried and shadowed with platinum. Image...

Nucleated erythrocytes from chicken were spread on water, the dispersed chromatin picked up on carbon-formvar grids, fixed with paraformaldehye, critical point dried and shadowed with platinum. Image...

Nucleated erythrocytes from chicken were spread on water, the dispersed chromatin picked up on carbon-formvar grids, fixed with paraformaldehye, critical point dried and shadowed with platinum. Image...

Desmid Micrasterias, a chlorophyceae alga of extraordinary beauty, beginning to divide. Micrasterias have bilateral symmetry, with two mirror image semi-cells joined by a narrow isthmus containing th...

Nucleated erythrocytes from chicken were spread on water, the dispersed chromatin picked up on carbon-formvar grids, fixed with paraformaldehye, critical point dried and shadowed with platinum. Image...