Methy Violet, an organic stain.

[The QCC]

The chemical Methyl Violet is frequently used as a stain for cloth (textiles) and some medical purposes.
When the dye is dissolved in alcohol and evaporated on a slide it produces beautiful crystal formations.
This photo

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[/url] is linked nine photos of Methyl Violet
The photos were taken with a Canon 5D MkII through a Nikon PL2.5x eyepiece on a Labomed LB-592 microscope.
Post processing was done in the Colour Science Image Editor.
The panorama image (#4) was stitched together with Microsoft's ICE.
The 50x & 100x photos (#8 & #7) were composited with the Lightroom Enfuse plugin.

[rnabholz]

Beautiful series.

The variety of textures is really intriguing.

Thanks for posting.

[Manfred]

Great images,colors and structures are fascinating,
did you use polarisation?

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Image #1 is in Plane Polarized light, all other images were with Crossed Polars.

[vasselle]

Bonjour
Très beau j'adore
Cordialement seb

[The QCC]

Merci.