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Post by gr on Jul 5, 2013 23:23:00 GMT -5
Ocean sand magified 250 times. Dibs on the purple one California Red-Sided Garter Snake Breed, Akhal- Teke; from Turkmenistan. Listed as the most beautiful horse in the world. Couldn't get the pics any bigger, sorry
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 5, 2013 23:31:17 GMT -5
Snake would make a nice belt or hat band.
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Post by helens on Jul 6, 2013 0:21:11 GMT -5
Awesome pix!! I have seen the horse one before... champagne colored horse... but the snake I had to look up to make sure you didn't find a pix of a bead necklace or basket. How neat is that? Magnified sand pix always knock my socks off... here's a few more from an article about them: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2011471/Pictures-sand-Close-photographs-reveal-incredible-beauty.htmlSaw a contest a few years ago for best microscopic pictures... that was incredible. The most incredible were the COLORS. How could such teensy things have colors like that when no one can see them?
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Post by gr on Jul 6, 2013 0:38:29 GMT -5
Those are cool pictures Helen, Thanks for posting them
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Post by Geoff on Jul 6, 2013 1:15:09 GMT -5
I don't think that's regular beach sand. I think that's what is called agate sand. Not sure though. That snake is cool. That horse looks like a tall, short hair Afghan hound.
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Post by vegasjames on Jul 6, 2013 2:36:20 GMT -5
Wow, that snake is great. I thought is was Photo Shopped at first.
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Post by helens on Jul 6, 2013 2:44:38 GMT -5
Ahhh! I FOUND THEM!!!! There's a microscopic competition every year put on by Olympus cameras... and here's the site with all the winners and honorable mentions. Every single picture is almost like a gut punch... they are simply breathtaking!!! olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2012/index.htmlHere are a few honorable mention from 2012 (The 'places' go from 1-10): Mr. Pierre Mahou, Dr. Emmanuel Beaurepaire, and Dr. Karine Loulier (Mahou, Beaurepaire) Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (Loulier) Institut de la Vision, Paris, France Specimen: 3D rendering of Brainbow-labeled cerebral cortex of a mouse brain, showing multicolor pyramidal neurons. Brainbow is a process by which individual brain neurons are distinguished from one another. Neurons randomly express different colors, making it possible to flag each neuron with a distinctive color and follow its pathway through brain tissue. Technique: Microscopy by wavelength mixing Mr. Frederic Labaune Auxonne, France Specimen: Grape hyacinth (Muscari) flower. Technique: Brightfield image stack Ms. Joanne Marrison Department of Biology University of York York, UK Specimen: Three-dimensional reconstruction of an embryonic Arabidopsis thaliana root. At left, a cut-away revealing cell files; at right, the reconstructed root surface. Technique: Confocal microscopy The 1-10 of each year are so stunning, I think I sat there for minutes examining each one. It's a pretty incredible contest.
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Post by Toad on Jul 6, 2013 5:46:46 GMT -5
I don't think that's regular beach sand. I think that's what is called agate sand. Not sure though. That snake is cool. That horse looks like a tall, short hair Afghan hound. Exactly what I was thinking on the horse.
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Post by Toad on Jul 6, 2013 5:47:21 GMT -5
Love that snake.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2013 8:27:52 GMT -5
Hmmm I used to catch those snakes and sell them and that pic looks a little enhanced to me. They are quite beautiful but I've handled dozens and I don't remember ever catching one quite that colorful. Maybe that's actually got blue color added.
I've seen that horse pic too and love the color but find the horse a little too grayhoundish in body shape for my tastes. I'm a big fan of the Conan the Barbarian horse body shape that you see in good quarter horses. Nice athletic builds that are more stocky and muscular and built more for go than for show. Hothouse flower like that wouldn't last five minutes round here. Love those sand pics. The one seems to be all fossils like radiolarian skeletons etc. Very cool....Mel
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Post by Pat on Jul 6, 2013 16:08:09 GMT -5
All beautiful! Makes me want to take a goooood look at our sand, and a closer look at my sand collection. Both horse and snake are stunning, too. Thanks!
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Post by panamark on Jul 6, 2013 16:54:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I think the colors on that snake have been really jacked around. At least I know most other Red-Sided Garter Snakes are not that color blue and bright green (you can google and see what regular ones look like.) The super vibrancy of the grass is a give away. Still, they are cool pictures.
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Post by texaswoodie on Jul 6, 2013 17:28:15 GMT -5
Believe it or not, people collect those micro fossils. They are neat as heck but sure wouldn't want to try to keep up with a collection of them. I have a hard enough time keeping up with the one pounders.
Curt
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Post by helens on Jul 6, 2013 17:34:32 GMT -5
Well heck... collecting microfossils wouldn't take up much space:).
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Post by kk on Jul 6, 2013 17:51:01 GMT -5
Love the sand pics.
But,....... is that horse for real? To me, it looks like that body (length) would not support even a medium build child.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2013 19:39:19 GMT -5
Microfossil collecting, cool idea. You're entire collection would fit in a little box. Reminds me of when I went on the CFMS fieldtrip to Stone Canyon. We had to car pool up so as not to have to many vehicles go to the site and I met this guy who asked me " wanna see my rock collection?" I said yep and he puled a pouch from his pocket full of type specimens done as 3/4 inch marbles. Very cool, whole collection fit in a pouch in his jacket pocket. Saw another collection once done as two inch tiles and another done as one inch cubes. The tiles fit in a recessed coffee table top. Made me think how fun it wold be to have a tile collection like that made from the best 2" square you could get of each material. been meaning to do that some day but never seem to get around to it *L*....Mel
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Post by helens on Jul 6, 2013 20:01:46 GMT -5
Microfossil collecting, cool idea. You're entire collection would fit in a little box. Reminds me of when I went on the CFMS fieldtrip to Stone Canyon. We had to car pool up so as not to have to many vehicles go to the site and I met this guy who asked me " wanna see my rock collection?" I said yep and he puled a pouch from his pocket full of type specimens done as 3/4 inch marbles. Very cool, whole collection fit in a pouch in his jacket pocket. Saw another collection once done as two inch tiles and another done as one inch cubes. The tiles fit in a recessed coffee table top. Made me think how fun it wold be to have a tile collection like that made from the best 2" square you could get of each material. been meaning to do that some day but never seem to get around to it *L*....Mel Wow... that's exactly what I was thinking actually. Not square tiles, but once I'm 'done' with some of every rock I can possibly want, to make geometric shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids) of every type and fitting them into a big picture. At first, I wanted to do it with circles too, but then cutting would be too complicated. I thought I'd make a wooden tray mount with borders and just a plywood bottom, and have all my pieces assembled in the 'tray', labeled on the back, and I could pick each one up and look at it individually. I've been moving in that direction with my cabs already, but keep making rounded edges too often, which messes me up:). I am not collecting by region or types... just by the rocks that I like to look at best, and without the less interesting rocks, my current collection would be a RIOT of colors. I haven't started doing it yet... can't figure out how I'd want to organize them, but my entire collection is definitely moving in that direction. As for the sand collection... that would be interesting to have a small box next to a small microscope to show off your 'collection' . Labeling might be a problem tho.
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Post by robsrockshop on Jul 7, 2013 8:50:28 GMT -5
Cool im gona build a 'Honey I shrunk the kids' machine and shrink myself and all my equipment in the middle of my sandbox. I'll worry about formalities such as the cats later.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 7, 2013 8:54:05 GMT -5
That garter snake is pretty! Around here they're just brown...... and mean. lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 15:55:31 GMT -5
Mel, that snake was collected on the campus at Stanford University. That locality is very special for that taxon. Bright blue stripe and deep black background with bold red checks on the sides. I have seen those snakes in person, at a show in Florida! These images are somewhat overexposed. Notice the paper towel is too white?
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