{"id":247367,"date":"2025-10-29T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247367\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:18:09","slug":"nikon-small-world-competition-announces-2025-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247367\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Small World Competition Announces 2025 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that, sometimes, less is more. That would certainly apply to photomicrography, where you want to take pictures of tiny things. Nikon agrees, and they sponsor the Small World contest every year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 winners<\/a> are a big \u2014 or not so big, maybe \u2014 deal.<\/p>\n<p>This photomicrography competition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/galleries\/photomicrography-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dates back to 1975<\/a>, so this is the 51st set of winners. First place went to [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/masters-of-microscopy\/zhang-you-on-turning-decay-into-wonder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zhang You<\/a>] for his photograph of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/galleries\/2025-photomicrography-competition\/rice-weevil-sitophilus-oryzae-on-a-grain-of-rice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rice weevil (sitophilus oryzae) on a grain of rice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[You] is an entomologist from the Entomological Society of China. He says, \u201cIt pays to dive deep into entomology: understanding insects\u2019 behaviors and mastering lighting, a standout work blends artistry with scientific rigor, capturing the very essence, energy, and spirit of these creatures.\u201d We can\u2019t argue with the results.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in Nikon and photography, you might also be interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/12\/25\/nikon-resurrection-repairing-a-broken-lens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">repairing a broken lens<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/05\/23\/repairing-a-nikon-d3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Nikon D3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They say that, sometimes, less is more. That would certainly apply to photomicrography, where you want to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-247367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}