--- title: Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition Microscopic Images description: Every year, the scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of natural subjects, shot under a microscope to the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. canonical: https://time.com/3630900/olympus-bioscapes/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-16T15:00:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:43.039Z article:section: Health og:title: Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition Microscopic Images og:description: Every year, the scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of natural subjects, shot under a microscope to the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. og:url: https://time.com/3630900/olympus-bioscapes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31beda034008359f/69876e6335ba6f480fc05f11/olympus-bioscapes-microscopic-029.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: olympus-bioscapes-microscopic-029 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition Microscopic Images twitter:description: Every year, the scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of natural subjects, shot under a microscope to the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31beda034008359f/69876e6335ba6f480fc05f11/olympus-bioscapes-microscopic-029.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 30 Images Of Life Under A Microscope > Sponsored content. 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Every year, scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of life science objects shot under a microscope to the [Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition](www.OlympusBioScapes.com%20). Artists from 70 countries send in about 2,500 images to the competition every year to be judged by a panel of experts in the field. Here are this year’s honorees.  Part of the front foot of a giant diving beetle at 100x magnification. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz  A leg of a hoverfly at 20x magnification. Dr. Jan Michels  A beetle head seen with confocal microscopy. Dr. Joseph Parker  Barnacle appendages at 100x magnification. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz  Weevils seen with stereo microscopy. Dr. Csaba Pintér  A green cone-headed planthopper at 200x magnification. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz  A horsetail stem stained white. Olivier Leroux  Worm larva at 10x magnification. Dr. David Johnston  A butter daisy at 2x magnification. Oleksandr Holovachov  A probiscis of a vampire moth at 10x magnification. Dr. Matthew S. Lehnert; Ashley L. Lash  Paramecium Arturo Agostino  A louse fly with its eggs Yousef Al Habshi  A kidney showing microvasculature. Ruben Sandoval  A spurge flower showing five nectaries. Dr. Somayeh Naghiloo  A retina. Thomas Deerinck  A mosquito larva at 100x magnification. Charles Krebs  A diatom at 500x magnification. Robert Lavigne  Bamboo seen with a 3D projection of a z-stack of confocal images. Fernan Federici  A dandelion at 10x magnification. Thomas Deerinck  A spore cluster known as Polypodium aureum. Anatoly Mikhaltsov  A Rat brain cerebellum at 300x magnification. Thomas Deerinck  Micri algae showing chloroplasts. Rogelio Moreno Gill  A geranium wildflower. Karl Gaff  Two mosquito pupae. Jerzy Rojkowski  A liverwort at 125x magnification. Magdalena Turzańska  Sections of a leaf from an orchardgrass. Gerd A. Guenther  An earth-boring dung beetle. Dr. Helle Juel Martens  Motoneurons in the brain of a mouse at 60x magnification. Dr. Katie Matho  The underside of an isopod made seen with fluorescence and image stacking. Waldo Nell  A moss specie called Tortula ruralis. 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