The underside of a common tree mushroom captured using stereomicroscopy with 11 X magnification. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Hydroid collected from kelp sample captured using epi-illumination and an image stack. Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

This image set consists of five differential interference contrast (DIC) images of red bood cells (approximately 8 microns in diameter). Each image in the set contains a DIC image and a thresholded i...

Unlike humans and animals, plants use separate systems to transport food and water - the heavily reinforced xylem for transporting water and the phloem system, with its own built in filters (sieve pla...

A light micrograph of a thin slice through a cup fungus called Peziza. It grows on decaying wood and organic matter and reproduces itself by producing ascospores. This section shows the fungus' spore ...

These Closterium algae are elongate desmids formed by two hemicells that are mirror images of each other. Although there is only a single central nucleus, each semicell has one or two axial, ridged c...

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...

Brightfield image of stink bug eggs. Stink bugs are agricultural pests that exist throughout the world and emit a characteristic foul-smelling odor when disturbed. Eggs are laid in clusters (averagi...

Brighfield and polarized light of Spirogyra (a filamentous green algae). Spirogyra is unbranched with cellular cells connected end to end in long green filaments. Sixth Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes...

A brightfield, multi-focus stack image of a sorus of Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort), a small fern. A sorus is a cluster of sporangia, which produce and contain spores. Honorable Menti...