Nikon Small World has announced the winners of their 51st photomicrography competition. First Place goes to the photo above of a rice weevil perching on a grain of rice. It was taken by Zhang You of China at 5X magnification using image stacking. I was also impressed with the Third Place winner.
These are grains of pollen caught in the web of a garden spider, by John-Oliver Dum of Medienbunker Produktion in Germany. This is at 20X magnification with image stacking. Notice how tiny the dew drops are! You can browse the ranked top twenty images in this gallery, plus the honorable mentions and images of distinction. Click on a photo to bring up its information.
By the way, there is a difference between photomicrography and microphotography. Wikipedia explains that photomicrography is the art of photographing very small things through a microscope, and microphotography is the art of shrinking photographs down to microscopic size. Google's AI thinks they are the same thing.