Nature nominee

All images in this series are polarized light microscopy panoramas of crystalized amino acids (L Glutamine and Beta Alanine in this case). Acids were mixed with solvent and then crystalized on glass slides. The colors are the result of the interaction of polarized light with the birefringent properties of the crystals. All images are large panoramas and thus are well suited to large scale printing. I'm a bartender by night and a home science hobbyist by day so all of these were taken at home, in my bedroom with an old Olympus microscope!

Published in New Scientist Magazine, Professional Photographer Magazine, MyModernMet, New Atlas. Nikon Small World 2018 top 20. Ameteur home microscopy/science hobbyist by day, bartender by night.