Anatomy and Art

Science, Education, and Living with a Disability, a blog by Sara Egner

Microscopic Photography

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Today I got to take pictures with a microscope.  I’d been given the overview of how it all worked once before, but today was the first time I ever really got to play with one.  Everything I shot was off of the same slide.  I’m told it was a mouse cochlea, but it looked like art to me.

This one was my favorite image of the bunch…

mouse cochlea

The rest can be seen here…
http://snapshotgenius.com/gallery/rodentcochlea

These were fun to take!

note: further conversation with the histologist who stained the slides in the first place, Dr. TK Bhattacharyya, revealed this to actually be the cochlea of a guinea pig.  Live and learn.

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October 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

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