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MBL Image Places First in Photo Contest | Optics & Photonics News

Published on November 20, 2017
MBL Image Places First in Photo Contest | Optics & Photonics News
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An image of a living algae cell taken by MBL Associate Scientist Michael Shribak has won first place in the 2017 Optics & Photonics News photo contest. Shribak’s description of the image is below. See all the winning images here …

“This is a live image of the diatom Arachnoidiscus. The picture shows the diatom’s silicified cell wall, which forms a pillbox-like shell composed of overlapping halves that contain intricate and delicate markings. The picture was taken with a polychromatic polscope. Using that instrument, an eye or camera can directly see the colored polarization image through the ocular, with brightness corresponding to retardance and color corresponding to the slow-axis azimuth.”

Source: Winners of 2017 Photo Contest | Optics & Photonics News

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