Micrographia

If it hasn’t been obvious from looking at these images, I have been making a number of microphotographs as a side effect of my lab work. For those wanting the technical details, most of these images have been made using a Leica 1-8x stereomicrosope and a Hamamatsu digital camera. I’m still learning how to make photographs using these tools.

I don’t know, is nature photography usually dismissed by the hardcore street photo crowd? We might think of a middle aged guy who has way too much gear taking telephoto shots of birds or macro closeups of flower petals. If you like cameras then nature photograph is easy: it seems to just wait there for you and you are pretty much guaranteed results of easily digestible beauty (because nature sure is pretty, right?).

Microphotography is mostly the province of science; the results of injecting artistry cluster around the cool, colorful, abstract, and freaky. But what draws me is the possibility of new visual relationships and delicate composition.

I’m just trying to understand what avenues of problems these techniques have to offer photographically.