Broken

[Saul]

Crystallized soy sauce under DIY Lucigen polarized oblique illumination + EPI pol, at 10x magnification. A total of 2x178 photos were stacked and stitched together in PS.
Nikon Labophot-2, MPlan 10x

[PeteM]

That's a gorgeous image, Saul. Thanks for creating and sharing it.

[MichaelG.]

That's a gorgeous image, Saul. Thanks for creating and sharing it.

Agreed !!

… at first glance, it made me think of a corroded piece of wrought iron.
Your rendering of the detail is superb.

MichaelG.

[ADi]

very nice !

[apochronaut]

Really interesting and carefully constructed image, potentially created millions of times per day. Yes, thank you for taking the time to post it.
One question I have is that the fully illuminated circle , appears to be somewhat oval, conforming more or less in it's length by width ratio to the principle feature of the crystallization. Sm I seeing correctly?

[macnmotion]

Very cool!

[Saul]

Thank you all for the kind comments !

... One question I have is that the fully illuminated circle , appears to be somewhat oval, conforming more or less in it's length by width ratio to the principle feature of the crystallization. Sm I seeing correctly?

Not 100%, because of the stacking/stitching/post-processing artifacts, I had to use content-aware fill in Photoshop.