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Updated: July 8th, 2008 05:26 PM GMT-05:00

Krebs 'Flies' Away with Grand Prize

Charles B. Krebs/Courtesy of Nikon
The wining entry was Charles B. Krebs’ picture of a common house fly magnified at 6.25x under reflected light.
Hank Russell
Charles B. Krebs (right) explains the techniques he used in capturing the image.
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By Hank Russell, Managing Editor

New York — Oct. 6 — Nikon Instruments (Melville, NY) announced the winner of its Small World 2005 Annual Competition at the Hudson Theater. The honor went to Charles B. Krebs of Charles Krebs Photography (Issaquah, WA), whose picture was of a muscoid fly (house fly) magnified at 6.25x using reflected light.

Rounding out the top five were:

Thomas J. Deerinck of the National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research, University of California – San Diego (La Jolla, CA), quantum dot fluorescence image of a mouse kidney section (240x), fluorescence (two-photon).

Stefan Eberhard, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia (Athens, GA), crystallized vitamin A (40x), polarized light.

Edy Keiser, Ennenda, Switzerland, crystallized succinic acid and urea (50x), polarized light.

Neil J. Egan, PPG Industries (Cleveland), bacteria growth in petri dish (30x), stereomicroscopy.

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