Through the lens of a microscope - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

genuinegirly · 02-19-2009, 03:39 PM

I sectioned these plants by hand.
I stained them by hand.
I looked at them with various microscope settings.
I snapped the shutter
Super-up-close plant-guts.
Hope you enjoy.

red pepper

potato

ginkgo flourescence

ginkgo polarized light

pond weed

pond weed, stained

yucca

pseudotsuga stained

pseudotsuga 2 stains

pseudotsuga vasculature

fig paradermal

fig x-section

celery

celery vasculature

celery pink

celery x-section

snowy · 02-19-2009, 03:49 PM

Very interesting stuff, genuinegirly. I enjoyed it very much; thanks for sharing!

lostgirl · 02-19-2009, 03:50 PM

This is fun! Thanks for posting these.

I asked for a microscope for my 9th birthday. I've always been a nerd.

mixedmedia · 02-19-2009, 04:15 PM

These are absolutely awesome! I love them. Great job.

Thanks, gg!

Anormalguy · 02-19-2009, 04:30 PM

Who knew that the insides of plants were so cool? Thanks, GG, for posting those.

Cynthetiq · 02-19-2009, 05:29 PM

thanks gg! You brought back many memories of my childhood...

fresnelly · 02-19-2009, 06:09 PM

Hello new Wallpaper!

Tully Mars · 02-19-2009, 06:32 PM

Very cool, thanks.

inBOIL · 02-19-2009, 11:08 PM

You've just reminded me of one of the reasons I miss having easy access to a biology lab.

dlish · 02-20-2009, 08:55 AM

wow gg!

puts the fun back into veggies!

anyone for brocolli?

C4Fan · 02-22-2009, 08:10 AM

Wow, man!!!!!!!

I just had a flashback to all those biology (whatever) 101 classes I struggled through my freshman year in college.

OK,,,,,al better now.

BTW, nice pics.

Cheers,
dan

genuinegirly · 02-22-2009, 08:43 AM

C4Fan - your username isn't a reflection of your undying love for C4 photosynthesis? Aw man, I was excited to run into someone who studies that funky method of metabolism.

Thanks everyone for your sweet comments. It made my week!
As you can imagine, this kind of project takes a lot of time and energy. I'll try to update this thread as I come up with more images this semester.

ring · 02-22-2009, 08:47 AM

The microscope I got for christmas when I was 10,
was the best present ever!

Beautiful images, GG, thanks for sharing.

Fotzlid · 02-22-2009, 09:07 AM

Nice!

Did those shots require any type of adapter or just a steady hand held over the eye piece?

Those pics brought back some memories.
Back in the day, when I was a cubicle worker, I had a bunch of ties where the patterns were based on color enhanced electron microscope images of different types of crystalline structures. One of the patterns looked like the ginko slide.

C4Fan · 02-22-2009, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genuinegirly

C4Fan - your username isn't a reflection of your undying love for C4 photosynthesis? Aw man, I was excited to run into someone who studies that funky method of metabolism.

genuinegirly,

I'm so sorry to rain on your parade, but my user name reflects my undying love for the forth generation of the Corvette, America's sports car. I've owned Corvettes for over 34 years and have two now.

I started college in pre-veterinary medicine but ended up with a degree in Managemant.....go figure. Additionally, I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and at one time could diagram out the Kreb's Cycle.

Cheers,
dan

fnaqzna · 02-22-2009, 03:22 PM

Awesome work. Really interesting.

genuinegirly · 02-22-2009, 05:35 PM

[QUOTE=Fotzlid;2599078]Nice!

Did those shots require any type of adapter or just a steady hand held over the eye piece?
QUOTE]

I was working with a couple of different microscopes for the images.
A setup similar to this:

Where the camera is pretty much built in.

Then some of the stuff comes from my work with the student scopes, which are pretty much like this:

For those, I use a camera similar to this:

With a specialized piece of plastic that links it to the ocular, which looks like this:

genuinegirly · 03-25-2009, 02:27 PM

More plant guts. I'm having fun with textures.

pea

Fagus bud trichomes

Fagus leaf scar

Coleus leaf with trichomes

Pelargonium leaf cross-section with trichomes

Pelargonium leaf

telekinetic · 03-25-2009, 04:46 PM

Hah, great stuff! All my microscope pictures are of metal grain structure. I'll see if I can find some...

JamesB · 03-25-2009, 06:59 PM

Oh the horror. The horror.

This is a throw-back to plant physiology labs where we did micrographs and drew circles for 5 hours on end. Not bad sections

genuinegirly · 03-26-2009, 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesB

Oh the horror. The horror.

This is a throw-back to plant physiology labs where we did micrographs and drew circles for 5 hours on end. Not bad sections

Heehe. I got carpal tunnel from a course like that. It comes back to haunt me every now and again.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by twistedmosaic

Hah, great stuff! All my microscope pictures are of metal grain structure. I'll see if I can find some...

I'd love to see them!!! Please do share!

kramus · 03-26-2009, 06:27 AM

Very beautiful and evocative images genuinegirly

I can see why you would explore these worlds of images and processes. It makes one want to doodle and paint and such.

Xerxys · 04-09-2009, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genuinegirly

Coleus leaf with trichomes

This is great. I can't beleive I only just saw this!!

hokieian · 04-10-2009, 05:45 PM

As a microbiologist, I saw well done. I've always meant to take by D80 to the lab and capture some fluorescence microscopy suitable to hang on the wall.

little_tippler · 04-11-2009, 09:37 AM

I totally missed this. These are really beautiful gg, thank you!

02-19-2009, 03:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	Through the lens of a microscope I sectioned these plants by hand. I stained them by hand. I looked at them with various microscope settings. I snapped the shutter Super-up-close plant-guts. Hope you enjoy. red pepper potato ginkgo flourescence ginkgo polarized light pond weed pond weed, stained yucca pseudotsuga stained pseudotsuga 2 stains pseudotsuga vasculature fig paradermal fig x-section celery celery vasculature celery pink celery x-section __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy Last edited by genuinegirly; 02-19-2009 at 03:42 PM..

02-19-2009, 03:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	Very interesting stuff, genuinegirly. I enjoyed it very much; thanks for sharing! __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

02-19-2009, 04:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	These are absolutely awesome! I love them. Great job. Thanks, gg! __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

02-19-2009, 04:30 PM	#5 (permalink)
Anormalguy After School Special Moralist Location: Large City, Texas.	Who knew that the insides of plants were so cool? Thanks, GG, for posting those. __________________ In a society where the individual is not free to pursue the truth...there is neither progress, stability nor security.--Edward R. Murrow

02-19-2009, 05:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
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02-19-2009, 03:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
lostgirl lightform Location: Edge of the deep green sea	This is fun! Thanks for posting these. I asked for a microscope for my 9th birthday. I've always been a nerd.

02-19-2009, 06:09 PM	#7 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	Hello new Wallpaper! __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

02-19-2009, 06:32 PM	#8 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Very cool, thanks. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

02-19-2009, 11:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
inBOIL I have eaten the slaw	You've just reminded me of one of the reasons I miss having easy access to a biology lab. __________________ And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

02-20-2009, 08:55 AM	#10 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	wow gg! puts the fun back into veggies! anyone for brocolli? __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

02-22-2009, 08:10 AM	#11 (permalink)
C4Fan Upright Location: Mid Florida	Wow, man!!!!!!! I just had a flashback to all those biology (whatever) 101 classes I struggled through my freshman year in college. OK,,,,,al better now. BTW, nice pics. Cheers, dan

02-22-2009, 08:43 AM	#12 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	C4Fan - your username isn't a reflection of your undying love for C4 photosynthesis? Aw man, I was excited to run into someone who studies that funky method of metabolism. Thanks everyone for your sweet comments. It made my week! As you can imagine, this kind of project takes a lot of time and energy. I'll try to update this thread as I come up with more images this semester. __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

02-22-2009, 08:47 AM	#13 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	The microscope I got for christmas when I was 10, was the best present ever! Beautiful images, GG, thanks for sharing.

02-22-2009, 09:07 AM	#14 (permalink)
Fotzlid Junkie Location: Greater Boston area	Nice! Did those shots require any type of adapter or just a steady hand held over the eye piece? Those pics brought back some memories. Back in the day, when I was a cubicle worker, I had a bunch of ties where the patterns were based on color enhanced electron microscope images of different types of crystalline structures. One of the patterns looked like the ginko slide.

02-22-2009, 03:22 PM	#16 (permalink)
fnaqzna Meat Popsicle Location: Left Coast	Awesome work. Really interesting.

04-11-2009, 09:37 AM	#25 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	I totally missed this. These are really beautiful gg, thank you! __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918

02-22-2009, 05:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	[QUOTE=Fotzlid;2599078]Nice! Did those shots require any type of adapter or just a steady hand held over the eye piece? QUOTE] I was working with a couple of different microscopes for the images. A setup similar to this: Where the camera is pretty much built in. Then some of the stuff comes from my work with the student scopes, which are pretty much like this: For those, I use a camera similar to this: With a specialized piece of plastic that links it to the ocular, which looks like this: __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy Last edited by genuinegirly; 02-22-2009 at 05:39 PM..

03-25-2009, 02:27 PM	#18 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	More plant guts. I'm having fun with textures. pea Fagus bud trichomes Fagus leaf scar Coleus leaf with trichomes Pelargonium leaf cross-section with trichomes Pelargonium leaf __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

03-25-2009, 04:46 PM	#19 (permalink)
telekinetic zomgomgomgomgomgomg Location: Fauxenix, Azerona	Hah, great stuff! All my microscope pictures are of metal grain structure. I'll see if I can find some... __________________ twisted no more

03-25-2009, 06:59 PM	#20 (permalink)
JamesB Insane Location: Ottawa	Oh the horror. The horror. This is a throw-back to plant physiology labs where we did micrographs and drew circles for 5 hours on end. Not bad sections __________________ -- apt-get install spare_time --

03-26-2009, 06:27 AM	#22 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Very beautiful and evocative images genuinegirly I can see why you would explore these worlds of images and processes. It makes one want to doodle and paint and such. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

04-10-2009, 05:45 PM	#24 (permalink)
hokieian Crazy Location: Saratoga Springs, NY	As a microbiologist, I saw well done. I've always meant to take by D80 to the lab and capture some fluorescence microscopy suitable to hang on the wall.