dark radiolarians

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:16 am

I finally have some time to do microscopy. I hope to post some new results soon, although most of the stuff I make now is movies. But I also have a lot of images that still need to be archived or have been archived but not posted. Just a pick from a deep directory.

This is from 4 years ago. I am not sure if I ever posted one of them. It's a series of radiolarians with a combination of darkfield and rheinberg so the shells are coloured. I also made a series of more than 80 images of radiolarians that were turned into a movie by morphing. A bit hard to put this movie on the web. It is 12 minutes and the movement goes very slow. So it is a bit boring. But I used it in an exhibition and it is almost like they are growing. It gives a meditative effect.

Wim

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:20 am

beautiful

Fredlab · Post by **Fredlab** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:40 am

Exceptionnel

Thanks

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:17 am

Beautiful, Wim! Outstanding work!

Ernst Haeckel would be delighted, as am I!

--Betty

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:12 am

Wim, excellent images!

Planapo wrote:Ernst Haeckel would be delighted, as am I!

I fully agree with Betty but Haeckel would loved a bit more baroque image

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:31 pm

Great work on a notoriously difficult subject to image well.

Jean-marc · Post by **Jean-marc** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:52 pm

Very beautiful !

JM

canonian · Post by **canonian** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:13 pm

These are outstanding Wim, glad to have you back on this forum again.

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 4:25 am

Outstanding work Wim

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:17 pm

Thank you all. Of course these images were influenced by Haeckel. They are such amazing organisms. But it is funny to compare the images of Haeckel with subjects we know. Like desmids or rotifers. They are stylised. Perhaps it is the result of the translation into lithography. I am not sure if Haeckel did the drawings himself. Perhaps only sketches? The transfer to lithography was probably done by someone else.

Wim

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:50 pm

Beautiful set!

Rogelio

pierre · Post by **pierre** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:52 am

Impressive work

myriophyllum · Post by **myriophyllum** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:33 am

Hi Wim,

great photos, they deserved to be winners of the Administrators Appreciation Awards this month. :-)

Gratulations!

Jens