Nikon has announced the winners of its 52nd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s winning photos celebrate the world’s best and most captivating images captured through a microscope, showing the world in an up-close and unique way.

This year, photographers from 69 countries submitted 1,803 photos for consideration, a large pool of highly specialized, exceptional microscope images. The judges certainly had their work cut out for them picking the best shots.

Ole Bielfeldt’s Grand Prize-Winning Photo Shows an Inkjet Printer Up Close

This year’s first-place prize goes to Ole Bielfeldt, a student and experimental photographer based in Cologne, Germany. Photographers should definitely print their photos, and if they can capture microscopic photos of the process, even better. In fairness, Bielfeldt’s photo shows text being printed, but the principle remains intact.

Bielfeldt used a custom imaging rig he built himself, helping him showcase an everyday process in an entirely new way.…