beard stubble

[lothman]

Hi,
this is kind of a selfie, at least a very tiny portion of a selfie some beard stubbles from me.

Mitutoyo 20x; 3µm steps, 170 shots, backlight and LED from left and right.

best regards
Lothar

(link to larger version)

[rjlittlefield]

Lovely -- and admirably free of fine debris!

How did you collect and prepare the specimen?

--Rik

[lothman]

How did you collect and prepare the specimen?

I rinsed my saftey razor in a bowl, the stubbles sank down. I poured the shaving soapy water off. Rinsed with very strong soap solution, then several times with water and finally Isopropanol.

For taking the shots I put the stubbles on a microscope slide and cleaned out some debris using a stereo microscope.


regards
Lothar

P.S.: by the way is there a new approach for the transparent foreground problem in conjunction with slabbing?

[MarkSturtevant]

That is surprisingly interesting! One detail is that different hairs look to have different cross-sectional shapes.

[rjlittlefield]

"safety razor" -- that also explains the cleanly cut ends, versus the crushing I might expect from an electric razor.

"new approach for the transparent foreground problem in conjunction with slabbing?" -- no, sorry, not yet.

--Rik

[PeteM]

As intriguing a self portrait as I've seen. Looks to have been painted by an abstract artist.

[AlP]

Very coooool.

[lothman]

on request here a link to a bigger file

best regards
Lothar

[rjlittlefield]

Lovely! The larger version shows great details of the scaly surface of the hair.

--Rik