White Doodles

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These white doodles are moisture on the surface of a freshly sliced California strawberry.

Captured Using:
Nikon SMZ-1500 Stereo Microscope
Nikon DS-L3-Fi2
Excel Technologies Fiber Optic Ring Light

Scratchy Fusion

What scrapes your face when it gets old?

It's the wear on the razor blade. Look closely at the top center center/right of the edge of this blade.

You can see just a slight variation, which is blade wear and makes my face red!

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 If you can't see it under the microscope at 10X, good luck trying to see it with the naked eye!

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Used Gillette Fusion Razor Blade (about 2 weeks) old.

Captured Using:
Nikon SMZ-1500 Stereo Microscope
Nikon DS-L3-Fi2
Excel Technologies Fiber Optic Ring Light

Brooks Brothers Blue

I got some olive oil on a Brooks-Brothers Non-Iron shirt and figured it might show some variation looking at the fibers. Surprisingly the difference was only visible at low magnification.  At high mag and through the scope it was difficult to impossible to see a difference in the oil stained fibers.

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Images captured using:
Nikon SMZ-1500
DS-L3-Fi2
Fiber Optic Ring Light

Set no. 2 - Grey Ridges

Images will appear in reverse order, can you figure out what you are looking at before you get to the bottom of the post?

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So what are you looking at?

It's the head of a socket head black oxide 1/4-20 machine screw.

Images captured using:
Nikon SMZ-1500
DS-L3-Fi2
Fiber Optic Ring Light

Set no. 1 - Green Blue and Red

Today is the first post in a set of images of life's surfaces as seen under the microscope.

Images will appear in reverse order, can you figure out what you are looking at before you get to the bottom of the post?

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The images are of the active pixels in the blogger icon on the screen of a Motorola Droid X phone!



Images captured using:
Nikon SMZ-1500
DS-L3-Fi2
No additional lighting!