2022 Photomicrography Competition

I love these so much, there are so many cool geometrical patterns and the colorization makes everything look very psychedelic. They also make amazing desktop wallpapers, I think the majority of mine come from here.

Interestingly, all the submissions of circuits dropped off after 2009.

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/circuit

I'm thinking that has to be because features shrank too much with process nodes to be able to take a photograph without something like an electron microscope, since the rules require light microscopy only.

My favourite is the close up of an ant face

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrogra...