The Cracks are Showing

[Pete Askew]

Again, just playing around, but this is the cross-sectional face of a piece of Ulexite taken using a 16x objective under incident DIC on the MeF2. When I have a proper camera on the system I will try to get an image that combines this with the mineral's own unique optical trick! The made for quite a pretty and absorbing image though I thought.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It is indeed pretty and absorbing. I'd offer it to Roger Waters for his next album cover. Strange new worlds are all around us, we just need to know how to view them, and now you do. I look forward to seeing more in a similar vein.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks, Rob. I'll give him a call!

I've recently bought some antique mineral sections that should be interesting and I have quite a few Victorian prepared slides which I think I'll revisit. I can feel some composite images coming on - "The Paramecium's Wedding", for example!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

How do you get hold of paramecia (if that's the plural), and how do you stop them conconjugating all over your studio?!

 

[Pete Askew]

You can usually find some decent, upstanding Victorian-principled ones in the saucer under the average Aspidistra!

 

[Brian Moore]

That's a Japanese tea biscuit!

 

[Pete Askew]

Have you not had breakfast yet?!

Again!!

 

[Dave Farnes]

Finally, proof of the existence of canals on Mars.