And between my fingers, I hold the three parts of a small intestine.
Date: July 2008
Where/What: microscope slide at Ocean County College, NJ
Camera: Fuji S700
Shutter: 1/50
Aperture: f 3.5
ISO: 200
Listening to: Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult)
Thankful for: not breaking my foot and not having a concussion
13 comments:
That is a nifty picture of a nifty slide. I'm actually kind of intrigued by the background: what is it?
To wander further off-topic, I find it interesting that slides can be misshapen. I know, sounds dumb, but when I was a kid, all the slides I saw were perfect rectangles, obviously cut very precisely by machine. (And the cover plates were of course perfect as well.) I didn't know they came any other way. This slide has a very "homemade" look to me.
Finally, on the most (photographically) off-topic but personally most important note, I am also very thankful your foot isn't broken and you don't have a concussion! What happened? Sounds like a fall. Inline skating on broken pavement or rickety bridges again?
The background is a lab table.
The "homemade" quality that you see in this slide is actually barrel distortion, which is purely an effect of my camera, not the slide itself. (Remember how flat horizons can look curved? Same principle here.)
And two unrelated incidents just happened to happen on the same day. I stepped off a curbing and sprained my ankle (didn't realize it was that bad until I couldn't walk later in the evening). And in the afternoon, when my dissection group and I went to study in the anatomy lab, the cadavers got to be a bit much for me; I stumbled out of the lab and passed out alone on the bathroom floor.
Apparently.
Because I hit my head on something and I don't remember what or how.
I had not forgotten about barrel distortion. I just didn't think that was enough to account for the shape of the slide here because the top edge doesn't look smoothly curved to me (looks more like there's a kink between two straightish lines) and doesn't seem to match the top edge of the cover plate, which definitely doesn't have a perfect upper right corner, even accounting for distortion.
Well, chalk it up to more of my inexperience.
I don't know if I would have fared any better at your anatomy lab. I hope it gets better. I do think it's something that you'll get acclimated to.
i really, really like this image... or a number of reasons...
first, the hands... (of course)... second, great color... fourth, great sharpness... and fourth, the use of photo to document fact/science... which is a significant part of the history of photography (e.g., muybridge) and a fundamental part of how a photos are seen and understood currently (i.e., as evidentiary)...
that this image, in many ways, is more about your personal narrative than any real scientific record makes it only more interesting... and adds an odd tension... if that makes any sense...
that should be "for" and not "or"...
and please be more careful... an ankle and a knot?... yikes...
Smaller then a thought. AND SHORTER!
That should be 'than' not 'then'. ;)
Interesting and yet... creepy.
John- Okay, maybe some edges got a little chipped, and maybe the cover slide isn't glued on PERFECTLY. Fine! You win.
m and j- You two and your apparently obsessive needs to correct typos! ...make me giggle.
m- Thanks for the comment, as always. Seriously. I don't often thank you.
What kind of odd tension?
Side note- I was actually documenting the slide to help me study for a test. When I noticed how nifty it was all on its own, I tried to set up a few artier shots... they didn't work as well as this one, though.
j- I dunno about you, but I think BIG thoughts. Small-town thoughts are for folks in small towns.
(And small-intestine thoughts are for folks in....?)
Adam- You think THIS is creepy? Man oh man, if I could take photos in the cadaver lab...
oh, I love it! Great idea and a very good picture.
That is totally a winner.
This is very nice! Very nerdy! Great colors with a beautiful background. I knew it was a microscope slide immediately, but never would have guessed of what. Watch those formaldehyde fumes!
I would appreciate more visual materials, to make your blog more attractive, but your writing style really compensates it. But there is always place for improvement
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