Good luck sleeping tonight. This photo of a small, carnivorous sea plant, captured by VA resident Igor Siwanowicz, opening what seems like a giant mouth to consume single celled prey looks more like an artist’s rendition than an actual photo. However, that’s true of every shot in the  2013 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, in which all 2100 entrees came through the lens of a microscope.

This is the 10^th year for the competition, which is regarded as “the world’s foremost showcase for outstanding images and movies of life science subjects captured through light microscopes,” according to the website. Four renowned experts in microscopy and imaging selected the winning photograph from over 70 countries.

Siqanowicz is scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburg, VA, and the humped bladderwort he captured is actually a little out of the ordinary for him. Typically, he concentrates most of his time analyzing dragonfly anatomy. He’s kept quiet as to what led him to photograph the bladderwort, but this isn’t his first foray into microscopic image capturing:  The researcher has an entire online gallery of what he considers his best microscope shots.

The carnivorous plant is found on every continent but the United States, but it’s not nearly as imposing as it seems in the photo. It stretches to about two inches in length with a flower about a quarter of an inch, according to botanical-society.org. Small bladder systems (this one is magnified 100 times) dangle underwater and trap and ingest microorganisms like the ones in the photograph. As evidenced in Siganowicz’s picture, the bladder acts like an enormous mouth and sucks in tiny prey.

The bladderwort placed first among ten recognized winners and a host of honorable mentions. Second place might be even more unsettling. Rather than a colorful photo of a microorganism like the humped bladderwort, it’s simply a photo of a bat embryo, bizarrely arranged to look like a human baby.  Click here for all winners, honorable mentions, past winners, and past honorable mentions.

Sweet dreams.