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<span>Feature</span> <span class="fa fa-unlock-alt"> </span> OPEN </h5> <h1 class="mb-1">2024 Photo Contest Winners</h1> <p class="lead"><p>Congratulations to the winners of OPN’s 19<sup>th</sup> annual After Image photo contest!</p> </p> <div class="articleBody"> <div> <p>For this year’s contest, OPN received 63 remarkable entries. We thank the panel of judges who provided insight on those images and helped select the winners: <strong>Alvaro Casas Bedoya</strong>, <strong>Mihaela Dinu</strong>, <strong>Antigone Marino</strong>, <strong>Anca Sala</strong>, <strong>Susanna Thon </strong>and <strong>Joel Villatoro.</strong></p> <p>You can see all of this year’s contest entries online at <a href="/home/gallery/photo_contests/2024/"><strong>optica-opn.org/contest/2024</strong></a>.</p> </div> <div class="caption caption_fullpage"> <p><img alt="" src="https://opnmedia.blob.core.windows.net/$web/opn/media/images/articles/2024/1224/features/202412-p20-contest-img1.jpg" /></p> </div> <div class="media-body"> <h4 class="media-heading">FIRST PLACE</h4> <p>Pseudo Schwarzschild radius: Two superimposed images of a randomly oscillating color-illuminated string, which were then subjected to rotations and polar coordinate transformations.</p> <p>—<em><strong>Dan Curticapean</strong></em><em>, Offenburg University, Offenburg, Germany</em></p> </div> <div> </div> <div class="caption caption_fullpage"> <p><img alt="" src="https://opnmedia.blob.core.windows.net/$web/opn/media/images/articles/2024/1224/features/202412-p20-contest-img2.jpg" /></p> </div> <div class="media-body"> <h4 class="media-heading">SECOND PLACE TIE</h4> <p>Soap bubbles glimmer with lightwaves reflected from the back and front surfaces of the bubble that interfere with one another, thus concentrating the light to give a dynamic rainbow-color appearance.</p> <p>—<em><strong>Sritam Kumar Sethy</strong></em><em>, Berhampur University, Balasore, Odisha, India</em></p> </div> <div> </div> <div class="caption caption_fullpage"> <p><img alt="" src="https://opnmedia.blob.core.windows.net/$web/opn/media/images/articles/2024/1224/features/202412-p20-contest-img3.jpg" /></p> </div> <div class="media-body"> <h4 class="media-heading">SECOND PLACE TIE</h4> <p>Section of mouse calvarial bone days after injury imaged through second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, revealing changes in collagen organization and tissue remodeling. The SHG signal of fibrillar collagen is displayed in green, while blue shows the autofluorescence of primarily organic, non-collagen components in bone tissue.</p> <p>—<em><strong>Maria Alice Paularie</strong></em><em>, <strong>Bruno Henrique Costa</strong>, <strong>Emerson Alberto da Fonseca</strong>, <strong>Leandro M. Malard</strong>, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Minas Gerais, Brazil; <strong>脡rika Lorena Fonseca Costa de Alvarenga</strong>, <strong>Bruno Henrique Costa</strong>, Universidade Federal de S茫o Jo茫o del-Rei, UFSJ, Minas Gerais, Brazil</em></p> </div> <div> </div> <div class="caption caption_fullpage"> <p><img alt="" src="https://opnmedia.blob.core.windows.net/$web/opn/media/images/articles/2024/1224/features/202412-p20-contest-img4.jpg" /></p> </div> <div class="media-body"> <h4 class="media-heading">THIRD PLACE TIE</h4> <p>A 405-nm laser is shone through the marble ball from a Codd-neck bottle of the Japanese soft drink Ramune, which focuses the beam into a glass table. The yellow and green fluorescent responses likely arise from dopants such as uranium, manganese, cadmium or other elements or molecules in the glasses excited by the near-UV emission.</p> <p>—<strong><em>Michael A. Gachich</em></strong><em>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA</em></p> </div> <div> </div> <div class="caption caption_fullpage"> <p><img alt="" src="https://opnmedia.blob.core.windows.net/$web/opn/media/images/articles/2024/1224/features/202412-p20-contest-img5.jpg" /></p> </div> <div class="media-body"> <h4 class="media-heading">THIRD PLACE TIE</h4> <p>Energy transport in diffusive waveguides (Nature Physics, 2024). Light can propagate as a true waveguiding mode through diffusive materials, such as fog, tissue and resin (pictured). This is analogous to optical fibers, except the mechanism is diffusion using a contrast of scattering parameters to create localization. Image taken with a Nikon D750 using three colored diode lasers.</p> <p>—<em><strong>Kevin J. 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