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Derek Christie
Great Britain site url: http://www.microview.org.uk/medicinechest
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I was born in 1943 in Edinburgh, Scotland and have been an enthusiastic
amateur microscopist since an early age but only discovered the
extraordinary beauty of crystals, when viewed using polarised light,
within the last two years. I experimented with the medicines I found
in my home medicine cabinet and subsequently exhibited a photomicrograph
of paracetamol in the Annual Staff Art Exhibition, held in the hospital
where I work. After the exhibition, I was encouraged to mount a
solo exhibition showing photomicrographs of a wide range of common
domestic and prescription medicines . This was very successful and
let to two further exhibitions. The exhibitions were conceived as
celebrations of the healing powers of medicines whether they be
natural or the products of the great pharmaceutical laboratories.
Most of us who have benefited from the pain relief afforded by aspirin
or paracetamol but few have any idea of the hidden, secret landscapes
of joyful colours and mysterious forms that are revealed through
the eyepiece of the microscope. The fact that most medicines consist
of several ingredients means that the results of crystallising them
on a slide are often unpredictable as each element competes for
space and interacts with its neighbour. I will continue to experiment
with new medicines as the opportunity arises as my fascination with
this aspect of polarised light photomicrography continues unabated.
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Doug
Craft
USA site url: http://www.dougcraftfineart.com/
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I am a Colorado artist who creates collages and other art featuring natural abstract images. I began photographing petrographic thin sections and chemical crystals in 2000 using a Zeiss polarizing microscope with a Leitz-Wild 35-mm film camera, and have completed several newer series of microphotos using a Nikon polarizing scope with a Nikon D-70 digital camera. My artwork is inspired by Sacred Geometry and features compositions based on the Golden Ratio and the Golden Rectangle, as seen in my recent series of collages, The Elements in Golden Ratio. -
Jean
Michel Derochette
Belgium site url: http://jm-derochette.be/
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Born in Vielsalm (Belgium) in 1953. I studied chemistry and made
a PhD in surface chemical-physics using the Field Electron and Field
Ion Microscope. Now busy in industrial analytical chemistry. One
of my hobby is optical microscopy of rocks and minerals. I make
thin and polished sections of rocks for the determination of minerals
and structures. Techniques used are: transmission and reflection
microscopy, phase contrast coupled with monochromator and spindle
stage for determination of refractive index and optical properties
of crystals, stereo photography. -
Gabriele Diekert
Germany site url: http://www.gdiekert.de/microscapes.htm
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She was born 1952 in Gelsenkirchen. Today, she is teaching and researching
at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena as a full professor
for microbiology. Her major private interests are polarisation microscopy,
photography and 3D computer graphics. With respect to these hobbies,
aesthetics is more important for her than the scientific aspect.
She grows crystals from solutions or from melt. She is performing
polarisation microscopy as a hobby since about 25 years.
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Stefan Dittmann
Germany site url: http://www.faszination-mikrokosmos.de/
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Born in 1965 in Muennerstadt, Lower Franconia. Someone who loves
nature since his childhood with an interest in minerals, fossils,
as well as photography and astronomy. Beginning to deal with microscopy
in the year 1989. Since 1992 polarization microscopy with crystals.
Inspired of the beautiful colours and forms of crystalline nature,
he experimented with different substances and light-microscopic
techniques and photographed these artworks of nature. Since 1995
different exhibitions and workshops in the area of Lower Franconia.
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Eli Finkelstein
USA site url: http://www.pbase.com/elif/microscope_photography
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I live in New Jersey, USA. I try to capture the beauty in of the
undersea and microscopic worlds. I was introduced to the beauty
of bifringent materials under polarized light by a high school science
teacher. My brother and I took many photos using a borrowed microscope.
This led me to a career first in research, then in medicine. I stopped
taking these photos after high school. After a 30 year hiatus, I
rediscovered photography. I use common household items such as vitamin
C, an old microscope and chemicals I picked up on ebay, and a digital
camera. Some of my images are digitally enhanced for artistic effect.
Wherever I have altered images, it is stated on the caption of the
photo. I have already benefitted from the expertise on this website,
and have used some of the tricks of the trade listed here. Thanks
also to Mike Shaw for his helpful advice. -
Manfred Friedrich
Germany site url: http://www.abyssal.de/manfred-friedrich/gallery.html
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Born in Potsdam in 1936, biochemist and nutrition physiologist,
worked till 1991 as a medical chemist at the Central Institute for
Nutrition, GDR Academy of Sciences. Started photography in 1963,
experimental photomicrography in 1994. Since 1995, over 35 exhibitions.
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Youichi Hatakeyama
Japan site url: http://www1.tcn-catv.ne.jp/hatake113/index_mg.html
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Born in Tokyo in 1933. The first time I saw the photomicrographs
is about 15 years ago. At that time Mr. Minoru Akiyama showed me
his works and let me watch the same through the microscope, and
then I was very impressed on a beautiful crystal figure itself.
Since then, I have been keen interested in and learnt the photomicrography
with Mr . Akiyama's help. As for me, I will further continue my
photomicrographs as one of my life works. For your information,
Mr Akiyama is a senior friend of mine and both he and myself were
a member of the College Alpine Club during our college-days. He
is now a noted archititectural photographer in Japan as well as
one of the pioneers of the polarization microphotography in Japan. -
Edy Kieser
Switzerland site url: http://www.edykieser.ch/index.htm
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Born in 1947 in Glarus (Switzerland), working as a laboratory technician.
Among other things, I examine a wide range of materials under a
stereomicroscope. In my spare time, I am playing in a Dixieland
band. Photography has always been a hobby of mine, and digital technology
opens up entirely new possibilities. For quite some time now, I
am fascinated by the world of micro crystals. Thus, I bought a time-honored
"Orthoplan" microscope, with which I try to capture the colorful
and bizarre motifs which are "bred" from various materials.
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Jerzy Lech
Poland site url: http://jerzylech.w.interia.pl/index.htm
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Photography has been my passion since my childhood. I came across
microphotography while I studying at Bialystok Institute of Technology,
Poland. I was spellbound by the micro world in the interference
contrast in the reflected light and transmitted light. I am a proud
owner of a state-of-the-art darkroom. I have developed a number
of methods of precise imaging of colour tones observed through microscope
and processing images for the purpose of assessment of qualities
of observed objects. I specialize in microscope photography utilized
in scientific studies as well as the application of photography
as a research tool. I am an illustrator as well as co-author of
scientific publications containing microphotography processed by
tone-distributive methods. I am also a winner of photography competitions.
And there's still much more to it. For me micro world is a fascination
with the microscope-accessible beauty which represents the infinity
of existence. That cannot be defined by means of scientific notions
but only through spiritual experience. I have completed post graduate
studies of Photography and Image Information at Warsaw University.
I live in Augustow, Poland. I am a member of the editorial staff
of a leading Warsaw-based Polish photography monthly FOTO. Visit
my website and find my micro fascinations with citric acid observed
in the interference contrast. I will gladly accompany scientists
requiring high definition photography. -
Marek Miś
Poland site url: http://www.mismicrophoto.com/abstract.php
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I graduated biology in 1986 at Mikolaj Kopernik Univeristy in Torun,
but now my job isn't related with biology. My favourite subject
of photography is macrophotography and microphotography. In that
last area I won some awards in Olympus BioScapes and Nikon Small
World. If about microphotography I like the most abstract one -
microcrystals. I try to find something like microlandscapes or patterns
resembling those things from our regular world. -
Nemat
Nemati
Germany site url: http://www.gesteinsbilder.de/
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Born in the Iran. He has lived since 1978 in Berlin where he studied
geology. In his leisure time, he is taking photographs of thin slices
of rocks with a polarizing microscope with 250 times enlargement.
The method of the photography of rocks serves primarily science.
Beyond the settlement of facts he is interested in the optical discovery
trip into the empire of the invisible. He began eight years ago
with photomicrography and presented his photos until today in five
exhibitions. -
Giuseppe Poeta Paccati
Italy site url: http://www.wix.com/poetag/polarized-microphotography#!
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Giuseppe Poeta Paccati is a laboratory teacher of chemistry and
microbiology at ISIS Giulio Natta di Bergamo (Italy). His numerous
scientific interests include: history of chemistry and pharmacology,
study of the causes of the chemical accidents and of the disasters,
and ecotoxicology. He has published some scientific articles and
he participates as lecturer at conferences and training courses
in these fields. Winner of the first prize in an photomicrography
competition, his photos have appeared in many books and magazines.
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Siegfried Platzer
Germany site url: http://landsberger-lichter.jimdo.com/portfolio/mikro/
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My name is Siegfried Platzer. I was born in Halle/ Saale in 1958.
Since 1983 I have been working in my hometown Halle for the Martin-Luther-University
Halle-Wittenberg in the field plants and animal physiology. Photography
became my hobby 5 years ago. People shall be inspirated by the photos,
feeling as if being a part of it. Just keep your mind going! I made
the experience that visitors of my exhibitions all felt very different
about the pictures. I hope I will find time to take new fascinating
images. Finally, I can only agree with Mr. Paccati: "... if an image
catches the eye, it catches the mind and arrives to the heart".
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Jürgen
Schleicher
Germany site url: http://www.mikro-bilder.de/
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Study of electrical engineering, many years of activity in the area
of cable-development. Now, I am retired. Nearly 20 years ago, an
illustrated book about microcrystals awakened my interest. I process
the photos only regarding cutting and contrast at the PC. I refuse
in addition well-doing picture-changes; I would like to get the
actual impression of a moment in its natural beauty.
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André
Wieringa
Netherlands site url: http://www.howifoto.nl/
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In my profession as a histological and pathological analist I was
interested in scientific research. This interest brought me into
the world of micro- and macrophotography. I had the possibility
to work with hightech microscopic equipment. All techniques in microscopy
I did to get most information from the object. Polarisation microscopy
is used to show crystals in human and animal tissue. What first
was my profession later became business. Since 1994 I started to
experiment with crystal photography. That resulted in making fatastic
slides with beautiful colours and shapes. I became a junk of this
technique. Over more than 400 slides I have in stock. Many of the
slides found there way to be walldecoration at many people's houses.
On demand I now work for advertisers, publishers and photostock
agencies. If you want to see more of these or others of my pictures
you can go to www.howifoto.nl. The picture shown herewith is a human
flee shown by polarisation light. -
Peter Woitschikowski
Germany site url: http://www.fotomagier.de/
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As a qualified photographer‘s master I remembered approx. 20
years ago the fantastic crystal pictures of Prof. Manfred Kage which
have shown in the 70s me absolutely unknown picture worlds. I looked
for my examination for the master‘s certificate after new expression
means in the photograph and found them in the employment by means
of the microphotograph. When pure hobby pursued, fascinate me till
this day the unusual colour variety and form variety of the crystals
as well as to bring to bear the challenge them as a photo in a good
composition. Exhibits, Beamershows, talks and a contribution in
FotoTV accompany my work with which I would like to make the fascination
to microphotograph of a wide general public accessible.
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Wilfried Zirkel
Germany site url: http://www.photozirkel.de/
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Wilfried Zirkel, born in 1939. I have been pursuing photography
for 40 years. Since 1996, I am doing microphotography. My photos
of crystals are taken on filmstrip 6X9. The images I strive for
are not meant to be scientific documents, but are created according
to aesthetic criteria.