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Nikon Small World Competition ends 30 April 2008

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This prestigious annual contest promoted by Nikon Instruments has been running since 1977 and is a celebration of both the technical excellence and artistic expression involved in creating scientific imagery. Images must have been taken through a microscope using any of the techniques of light microscopy.

Nikon made clear that any commercial opportunities that may arise with regard to the winning entries will be passed to the submitting photographer and negotiated without Nikon's involvement. This is an excellent policy that we would urge all competition sponsors and promoters to adopt.

Winning images only in this contest will be retained by Nikon Instruments solely for the purposes of promoting this contest and will be exhibited in various exhibitions in North America.

Pro-Imaging have excercised an exception to the normal two year usage rule for this contest in line with the exception guidelines in the Bill of Rights condition 2.

The majority of the entrants to this competition are not professional photographers but rather scientists who are capturing images for the purposes of their research. In this community, non-commercial open access image sharing (with proper credit) is considered a normal practice and an important part of scientific collaboration. 

The participants in this competition expect their imagery will be shared and welcome the added publicity and the benefits such publicity brings to their careers.  A critical factor in scientific research is to be published in the scientific journals that recognize the winners of the Small World competition. This recognition can be very important to a scientist's career development since it brings greater awareness to his/her research.

There is a top prize of $3,000.00 and the competition is open to entrants over the age of 18

Organisations; Nikon Instuments

Judges; Judging is done anonymously for the current year to ensure independence, the previous years judges were -

Thomas Deerinck

Research Scientist at the National Center for

Microscopy and Imaging Research and the

Center for Research on Biological Systems

University of California, San Diego

 

Nicole Dyer

Senior Editor

Popular Science

 

John Hart

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Professor

University of Colorado, Boulder 

Malcolm Ritter
Science Writer
Associated Press

Daniel Sieberg

Science & Technology Correspondent

CBS News

 

Judges Consultant

Michael W. Davidson

Director of the Optical and Magneto-Optical

Imaging Center at the National High Magnetic Field

Laboratory

Florida State University

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© 2008 Pro-Imaging; Last updated on 27 May 2008

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