Extreme close up

Thanks for that Kitsmumma, it’s certainly not a photo you’d see much. Wild plant sex with multiple players flushed red lol!

Precisely the reason why you should endeavour to create more of these wonderful other worldly images in order to give those of us with less facsinating day jobs a small glimpse into the wonderous microscopic world of biology. Hope you enjoy your weekend Damian.

Hey Damian, I actually really enjoy these kind of microcosmic images. The idea that there are so many of these processes going on at other levels, and that there is a unique aesthetic to them is a great path to explore.

nice work Damian. as you say… extreme close up

Thanks again Kitsmumma! You’re making me think about what else I have sitting around overlooked LOL. It may be partly that the images are taken to serve a function, so you stop seeing past the function?

Thanks Chris, you can certainly get into these things at many different levels of magnification and find something different. I’ve also been thinking of the images on RB that I’ve been enjoying a lot – usually they’re so far removed from what I do, image wise. Do we all see everyone elses work as more facinating than our own?

Thanks Devan, it is pretty close, but we can get even closer… lol

if i had money and my own place to put it up.. its going up in my room so i can stare at it in confusion.. the flower tubey things looks like its embossed onto the image… great work~ can you take a picture of some blood cells? would love to see how they turn out…

LOL, thanks rawbun! You give me laughter, I give you confusion, an excellent trade!
That embossed look you mention was hard to get, so that’s partly why I like this image over others I took that day. Depth-of-field is a killer at these magnifications.
And a quest – a quest for blood! Cool, I’m on it. Now for a donor…

I find it fascinating too, but the fact is that, no matter what the subject is, the end result looks so good and even pretty, with those subtle and strong colours and almost jelly-liquid-like movement (am I the only one seeing that? heh) and energy … definitely ‘put-up-on-wall’ able!

ooo me me me pick me.. i’ll donate some blood in the name of art…

I think you’ve produced an awesome picture here, Damian! This is something most of us wouldn’t even know existed, so seeing it here is fabulous! This is art, don’t you worry about that!! Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks mrana! I know what you mean about the liquid look. I like the colours too. It didn’t actually work the way I wanted it to, but it does look interesting.

You watch out rawbun, I’ll come collecting, LOL!

Thank you Mel. Your coment has made me feel like less of a spectator and more of a player on RB, thanks heaps!

• waves finger * tsk tsk tsk… such a player!!

Wow, I feel somewhat privileged to have witnessed such amazing beauty of the mysterious ‘Invisibles” (If there is such a word!)

Oh Damian, I’m so jealous! This is exactly the sort of thing my household would enjoy on the living room wall! :) Fantastic image and I love the details you’ve supplied. Post more, please :)

aww rawbun, I didn’t mean player like that grin

Thanks Olga, I’m definately getting the message that I’ve become desensitised to the beauty of what I see through the microscope! If you guys like this, you’d love what can be done using a fluorescent microscope (special stains that make certain parts glow; you use a special microscope in a dark room). That is cool, and makes me smile to watch.

Thanks Alison! I glad you like the image and the info. This thread has made me think of lots of interesting things I can do, and things that even people with microscopes wouldn’t usually see either ;)

so so fasinating…love this kind of imagery

Thanks Kat :)

Gosh, your work is LOVE. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Thanks Melissa, love the excitement LOL!

I’d have it in my living room – it would match my red couch for a start! Lots of old stock photo books (used before online photo libraries for graphic designers who needed pre done shots) had a few of this sort of thing. I think it would look amazing blown up huge and would llike to see it photoshopped too….

Thanks Neroli, glad you like it! You’re right, this image hasn’t seen the inside of Photoshop, but prior to RB, there hadn’t been a need LOL!

I was thinking the same thing with Photoshop this could jump right off the page and on to many walls. There have been other people making a fortune out of this type of work. I am facinated in the process, would love to hang over your shoulder while you are making this type of stuff.

Keep on Going there is another world for you to play in, and share with us.
xkc

Thanks Karen, interesting ideas! When I get set up with some more microscope work I will be keeping RB in mind (a lot of the work goes in seasonal cycles).

You have my thumbs up Damien. Hope your hearing all these voices. I also would love to see more of this type of work.

Thanks Adrian, yep, hearing the voices for sure!

I like it! And from the looks of all the comments I see I’m not the only one that enjoys extreme close-ups in general :) Can’t wait to see more like this.

Thanks karolina :)

Botanical kamasutra!

Haahaa! That’s for sure Elena!

cool, im study a few biomed subjects this year… and for one of the projects we used research grade microscopes to take images (is there a scraps section where you can upload?) > anyway some stuff came out really nice.

Cool Steven. What were you looking at? No scaps section here lol, you’d need to add them to your gallery.

Damian, this is a lovely picture. More please!

Thanks Rose! I’m only missing one piece of gear to be able to get decent microscopy images again, then I’ll have another run!

love the transparent quality you have captured here, and the story behind the work is so interesting!
its a really beautiful image. and the name made me think of wayne’s world!! he he

Thanks Sharon, glad you found it interesting!
Haha – Wane’s World! There’s a flash back. Yep, the title wasn’t one of my most inspired moments, I was being too literal, not thinking of it as a creative venture when I threw it up. Oh well, I’ve decided to leave it as is, as a lesson to myself!

You’ve obviously gone to a lot of effort…keep it up!

Thanks a lot Mugsy, will do!

Cool abstract!.

Thanks Biswajit (not exactly an abstract, but the tiny details of plant life), cheers!

That really is an extreme macro! Its nice to see the art in science.

Thanks Mark! There are some fantastic sights to be seen under the microscope. Makes me take a lot longer to get my microscope work done because I’m going too slow looking at everything haha! I just need a microscope mount now, as I’ve bought a DSLR for my work (I wanted a dedicated digital capture system, oh well!), then I’ll be able to get more images, hopefully of good quality, but it’s not ideal.

very cool shot damian, art is about offering up a different perspective, and this is way differnt to what most of us see.

Thanks for that Vansk, great of you to say so!

What a fantastic idea, you are already an artist because you are seeing the art in everyday life no matter what you are doing…thats it ‘D’...way to go….I used to Live in Toowoombah, well Cabala really as a kid..god it was hot….keep these insights coming, I just love this shot, a part of life we would never see, thanks for your eyes….

Hi Jewd, thanks for your comments, I appreciate them! Glad you like the shot, I will do more :)

Excellent, I like this idea.

Thanks Pauline!

Actually Damien – this is the sort of thing I’d hang up in my living room – precisely because of its obliqueness!!!! – love it and the idea and thought you into it!!!

Haha – thanks Suzanne! Glad you like it!

You know, I have looked through the microscope so many times and thought, “Wow, this is some amazing abstract art.” It really made me smile to see that a fellow sciencey-type thought the same thing. Science and art really aren’t so far removed from one another, are they?

Thanks EC, I know exactly what you mean, and can spend a long time lost in the microscopic world I’m looking on. There are definately times where I think there is art in science!

Just discovered this marvel, Damian, on someone’s Favorites list. I think it is wonderful and agree with all the positive comments. Keep up such delights in abstract, microscopic art. It’s great!

Thanks Basil, glad you like it!

This is really interesting Damon, Thanks – it gives us a chance to see things that we wouldn’t normally.
Lisa x

Thanks Lisa, glad you like it!

This is a super cool pic Damian. I love the idea of finding a creative application from your day job. Its got me thinking I should/could do the same.

Thanks Kev! If you can, go for it! I’ve certainly got the idea that your boring day-to-day stuff can be interesting to others who don’t do that sort’ve thing (not that I get to take shots like this every day though LOL!)

Cool, thanks for sharing!

It’s like a peek into the Mysteries.

Very cool. I thought it looked like something found under a microscope. I click it and up there it is. Cool Cool Cool.

Thanks Mundy, memory and Jennifer, I’m glad you like the image :)

Great shot

Thanks Trace!

lol it’s still sex man. it’s a great photo, I spend a lot of time staring down a microscope and I agree, there is so much beauty at this biological level that most people don’t get to see (although you don’t always appreciate it for 8 hours straight…). LOL some my friends would give me heaps for putting up a photo like this (or my microscopic algae that I spend time with), that’s true (but I do have some framed microalgae… I’m a science nerd there’s no getting away from it)

Hey, postgrads unite! The novelty definately gets lost when you’re staring for hours, weeks (god, dare I say months!) at the same thing! I got so burnt out scoring pollen viability that I had to take a week and do some stuff in the glasshouse, because I couldn’t face the lab LOL. It seems interesting again now, in hindsight.

No, chuck up some algae pics! These things are facinating to people not directly working on them.

superb macro

this is the most wonderful image well done you.

Cool in the extreme.

Thanks DawsonImages, Juilee and Helen! I’m glad you like this one!

Bravo Damian. Very interesting.

Thanks a lot Alan!

fanx for the kind words brother…i have studied biology and this reminds me of the internal micro cosmic universe that surrounds us im a surreal way…

Thanks giovanni, glad you like it (and good to hear there’s another wayward biologist here lol!)

Thats amazing :)

oh lord i had to draw pages and pages and pages of this kind of thing in nursing school!!! ech!!!
i’m glad there are people in the world like you who enjoy science and exploration under the microscope!!! cuz it ain’t for everybody!
very nice photo btw =D

Thanks saynothing!

LOL, thanks Regina! Sounds like you got burnt out by microscopes!

I love stuff like this…

Excellent santakaoss!

Wow, beautiful photo! Reminds me of my Microbiology days, years ago. I should unpack my microscope and give it a try ;-) Not that it can get in this close!

That is definitely something you wont find very much of here. You rock.
Great job.

I would love to see more of these.

Thanks Leoni, glad you like it! Hehe, I wouldn’t have thought from my microbiology pracs that I’d end up working in it!

Thanks for that Colin, and you’re right, there isn’t much of this here (I’d have thought there would be some too). You’ve reminded me that I promised to do some more photomicroscopy too LOL! I’ll have to get off my butt and do it!

This is unreal. This is macro to the absolute atomic extreme … ok maybe not that far, but far enough to interest people of science and medicine all over the world. Your work is unique and rare to say the least.

It’s fabulous.

Thanks RoughDiamond, really awesome comment – I appreciate it!

This is very cool. It reminds me of the cells I sometimes see floating across the surface of my eyeballs. Except your pic is much cooler, and red. :D

LOL, thanks Stacey! Sounds like the view from your world is an interestng one!

Fascinating

Thanks Ann!

Wow! I love this. I paint macros but I’ve often wondered about taking it one step further. This looks so beautiful.

well this is just fascinating…
plant porn huh?
great image, hope to see more…..(not necessarily the debauchery, but….such microscopic worlds that we never get to see…..)

Thanks Cathy, glad you like it! You could find so much to paint if you were looking at the world microscopically :)

Thanks Wendy! Glad you like it, debauchery and all :)

Nice image and colours. I get a bit geeky over biology images.

Thanks jellie, feel free to geek out :)

Awesome shot!!! I agree – you could have your niche here! It’s fantastic! If you don’t mind a quick critique though – I would clone out the spots on the glass (the grey area) Brilliant capture!

Wonderful, great idea! I’m not an artist by profession, too, but a pharmacist, and I really have inclination towards this sort of images. I just wanted to say that I love this one!

Thanks Jan :)
And I should feed this through Photoshot, you’re right. This is straight out of the microscope, and before I ever owned PS :)

Thanks azzza, glad to find another sciency type here! Glad you like the pic!

Wow! This is groundbreaking abstract art! Genius!

LOL, cool Kimberly, glad you think so!

Fascinating, love it

Thanks pryere!

This is a truly beautiful image. well done and very creative. continued success.

this is gorgeous, are you going to do more of these? Makes a great abstract.

Thanks Joey, I’m glad you think so!

Thanks Genevieve! I will do more along this line! LOL, I know I’ve been saying that for a little while now :)

This is a fantastic image – right up my alley of abstract art. Very interesting to read about your approach… Finding out how your current skills can be applied. To me, this is what creating your own, totally unique art is all about, and you have done it admirably.
A fave for sure!

Thanks mare, I appreciate your comment, and very glad you think so :)

Let others be the judge of what they’l put on their walls. The subject and image is fascinating and effectively achieves both a very attractive and interesting image.

LOL, thanks EdgeOfReality :)
Glad you find it interesting as a subject as well as image.

When I was a kid in science class, I always loved drawing what I saw in the microscope, I think this is an awesome picture, and hopefully you either have done more of these, or will in the future, I would love to see them.

Great work, worth the effort

Not sure if anyone’s mentioned this before (I didn’t read all the comments) but, on my screen, and with my eyes, the whole image has a very tangible 3D effect. The pollen grains seem to stand proud of the screen in relation to the bits around them.

Very odd.

And very cool.

It’s absolutely mesmerizing. It’s a whole other universe. Loved your description also.

wow, that’s a very nice photograph and as a composition quite bequtifull too, wether you intended it to be that or not. Fun to see that we are pretty much looking at the same stuff through out microscopes, except that my pollen are hopefully 2000 years old.

i’m looking at numerous species. i am a palynologist, trying to reconstruct the vegetation changes that took place during the last 2000 years around an ancient city called Sagalassos in Turkey. My pollen comes from soil cores drilled up in various places around the site. You can understand that my pollen does not look as fresh as the ones in your picture :-D

i didn’t know grass pollen could be so pretty. thanx for posting this :)

looks amazing to me …

as a biology student I can appreciate the work and the effort it took to share it with the world … great work …

Scientific explanation apart, this is the most beautiful abstract and I would happily put it on my wall.

wings and rubies…
stunning shot! I hope you post more of this type of image. I have found that folks-me included love looking at things they can not see with their eyes alone. It enlivens a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world we live in.
Gorgeous image!

NIce job.

it is highly framable – just coz you know what it is doesnt preclude enjoying it for its abstract qualities – great texture, colour and design ! Look at abstracts long enough and you will find the painterly/photographic qualities of this particular piece – lucky you to get the opportunity to take many of these types ! >>> Gina