Any one from the Nikon Small World Photography Competition
The competition has been going on for 50+ years now, but here are the 10 most recent winners (as of April 2026)
2016: A four-day-old zebra fish embryo
2017: Immortalized human skin cells expressing fluorescently tagged keratin
2018: Eye of a Metapocyrtus subquadrulifer beetle
2019: A Fluorescent turtle embryo
2020: Dorsal view of bones and scales (blue) and lymphatic vessels (orange) in a juvenile zebrafish
2021: Trichome (white appendages) and stomata (purple pores) on a southern live oak leaf
2022: Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko
2023: Rodent optic nerve head
2024: Mouse brain tumor cells
2025: Rice weevil on a grain of rice