For the past 30 years, Nikon has held a contest for the year’s best microphotography images, and competition has been fierce. In 2011, they brought those still images to life, creating a separate category for videos, called the Nikon Small World In Motion competition.
This year, the competition was judged by Paul Maddox, a biology professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He had to choose from videos of a killer T-cell, a fruit fly’s locomotion, and stunning crystal formation to pick a winner that was original, informational, technically proficient, and visually striking. Today, Nikon announced the winning videos for the 2014 competition—check out all the finalists here.
