A beautiful oak leaf portrait won the 2021 Nikon Small World photography contest

Annual competition features snapshots of the world hidden from the naked eye

A closeup of a southern live oak leaf, shown at 60 times magnification, with the leaf's trichomes in white, vessels in cyan and stomata in purple

In this closeup view of a southern live oak leaf, shown at 60 times magnification, protective structures called trichomes are colored white, vessels are in cyan and stomata in purple.

Jason Kirk/Baylor College of Medicine, Nikon Small World

A closeup view of even the most common objects can make the mundane look spectacular.