Micro-photos can be so Beautiful!

Carin Rutherford-Creel
November 20, 2010

ALGAE

Sinewy filaments within squirming

microscopic diatoms (algae)

Cat tongue (31x) Plant?

CELLS

Epithelial cell in anaphase

(stage of cell division) (100x)

Differentiating neuronal cells

(actin, microtubules and DNA) (1000x)

CHEMICALS

Crystallized monomethyl-p-aminophenol sulfate (50x)

Deformation of a polyethylene folio (40x)

DL-acetylleucine monoethanolamine

melted with p-nitrophenol (30x)

CRYSTALS

Photochemical bleach crystal (50x)

Surface of titanium carbide crystal (64x)

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) crystals (125x)

Hexanitrodiphenylamine high-explosive crystals (35x)

FLOWERS

Phalaenopsis sp. (Orchid) aerial root (600x)

SUGARS (GLUCOSE)

Crystallized saccharine (25x)

Glucose crystals (16x)

SOAPS

Crystallized caustic soda (cleaning agent)

 Glaubers salt (multi-purpose chemical)

 and D76 (a photochemical) (40x)

Interference image of a microscopic

flow-pattern in draining soap film (15x)

Soap Film

WATER (SNOW)

Snow crystal (20x)

Snowflake (7x)

Snowflake (35x)

MEDICINE

Acetaminophen crystals (20x)

antibiotic powder mitomycin

OCEANIC LIFE

Squid Suckers