The winners of the 2008 Olympus BioScapes competition have been announced and M. I. “Spike” Walker of Staffordshire, England, took the first place with his image of a fairy fly, and earned $5000 worth of Olympus equipment. This year, twenty of the 2008 winning and Honorable Mention images will be displayed in San Francisco at an event on December 14, and then will begin a national tour.

You can find the 2008 BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition winners gallery here.

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