Photo Gallery It's a Small World
There are a million photography contests out there. But not many of them deal with images of objects normally invisible to the naked eye. SPIEGEL ONLINE shows the winners of this years microscopic photography contest.

Foto: Dr. Heiti Paves / University of TechnologyTallinn

Foto: Gerd A. Guenther / Düsseldorf Germany Sonchus

Foto: Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez / Institute for Microstructural Sciences

Foto: James Hayden

Foto: Bruno Vellutini / VellutiniCentro de Biologia Marinha Universidade de São Paulo

Foto: Dr. Havi Sarfaty / Israel Veterinary Association / Ramat-Gan

Foto: Dr. Shirley Owens / Michigan State University

Foto: Dr. Lloyd Donaldso / Donaldson / Scion, Next Generation Biomaterials Rotorua

Foto: Dr. Bernardo Cesare / Dipartimento di Geoscienze Università degli Studi di Padova

Foto: Dr. Arlene Wechezak / Anacortes, Washington

Foto: Dominik Paquet / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Adolf Butenandt Institute

Foto: Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya / Metropolitan UniversityTokyo

Foto: Dr. John Hart / Hart 3D Films / Boulder, Colorado

Foto: Tora Bardal / Department of Biology / NTNU Center of Fisheries and AquacultureTrondheim

Foto: Fabrice Parais / DIREN Basse-Normandie

Foto: Massimo Brizzi / Microcosmo Italia

Foto: Dr. Rebekah Helton / Department of Biological Sciences / University of Delaware

Foto: Dr. Julia Sero / Children¿s Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School

Foto: Yanping Wang / Beijing Planetarium

Foto: Dr. Havi Sarfaty / Israel Veterinary Association