Psychedelic look into a rat’s eye wins microphotography competition

A psychedelic image of the spider web-like network of tiny vessels in the back of a rat’s eye has won this year’s Nikon’s Small World photography competition.

Hassanain Qambari, a diabetes researcher at the Lions Eye Institute in Australia, was awarded first prize for the detailed image of a rodent’s optic nerve head. Along with Jayden Dickson, Qambari submitted the image to the competition “to showcase the complexity of retinal microcirculation,” Qambari said in a statement.