First Place, Photography: "The Glass Forest"
Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts. Mario De Stefano of the Second University of Naples, Italy, captured this miniscule "jungle" from the Mediterranean Sea with a scanning electron microscope.
The image earned first place in the photography category of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

(às vezes uma rapariga lembra-se de se informar sobre coisas da ciência - e não é só ver documentários na televisão ao domingo de manhã)