All my microscopy articles.
I viewed another batch of Copper Sulfate crystals under a light microscope, this time aiming for greater complexity and detail. This one’s a bit overedited, especially with the color, but still fun, Both this and the previous image have been stacked and stitched. First, I took multiple images at different focus levels of different sections […]
Microscopy: More Copper Sulfate Crystals Read More »
Intricate and Mesmerizing Suppurations of Sodium Hydroxide at the Microscopic level Good evening. I wish ya’ll peace and blessings. Feeling a bit under the weather today, and that goes well with the theme. A few weeks back I had an amazing microscopy run; but every run, every family, every group has an outcast. I tried
Microscopy: Diseased Sodium Hydroxide Read More »
Colorful, vibrant, fake, and sometimes purple Saffron under the microscope I needed dye for a project; when I asked my mother if we had food coloring at home, she handed me a small box and said it was saffron (zafran, in Bangla). Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, but thankfully, you can
Microscopy: Fake Saffron Read More »
Exotic, otherworldly Copper Sulfate crystals under the microscope Crystals are amazing. They were the whole reason I took up microscopy in the first place. My very first microscopy specimens were homemade crystals of various compounds, and they were immensely rewarding. Since then, however, I’ve strayed quite a bit from crystal making and leaned into some
Microscopy: Flame-Dried Crystals Read More »
Exotic, Otherworldly, and Bizarre Images of Melted Sugar Under the Microscope Yesterday, I was graced by another extraordinary microscopy session with peculiar and baffling results. The goal was to make crystals of various solutions by placing a drop on a slide and boiling it quickly over a spirit flame. This isn’t the best way to
Microscopy: Melted Sugar Looks Like Aliens Read More »
Burnt Honey is Blazingly Marvelous under the Microscope Last week, I had one of the most wonderful and memorable microscopy sessions of my life where nothing went to plan, but everything turned out great in the end. I’ve told one part of that story already. This is part two, and it’s as sweet as the
Microscopy: Burnt Honey is Lava Read More »
Reviewing the Top Microscopy Images of the Month(s) I love these bi-monthly reviews. They help me get a grip on how far I have come and how far I can still go. I’ll go straight to the point. Here are the best microscopy images, as nominated by me, from my articles of the past two
Microscopy Highlights: April and May! Read More »
Enjoy the most marvelous and Awe-inspiring Microscopy Images of the Month(s) I love quiet reflection. It’s always good to sit back and reminisce (positively) on bygones, cherish the fond memories, and learn from the mistakes. To that end, I have curated a gallery of some of the best pictures and moments from the last two
Microscopy Highlights: February and March! Read More »
I focus stacked my images- the results were clear, vivid, and spectacular I just fixed the biggest (microscopy-related) problem of my life. One of my major pain points with microscopy is the low depth of field. Biological optical microscopes are simply not made for large or thick specimen, and some of the samples I was
Microscopy: Copper Sulfate Crystals and Foam (Revisited) Read More »
My (first) Experience with Focus Stacking for Microscopy Focus stacking is a technique used in photography where multiple images are taken, each focused at a different depth or point in the scene, and digitally combined to create an image with a greater depth of field. It is especially handy in microscopy, since microscopes are notorious
Focused and Unfocused: A Beginner’s Comparison of Focus Stacking Read More »
