Microscope experiments: Bismuth

Everyone loves Bismuth, and who can blame them? Just look at this, taken with the usual point-and-shoot in daylight:

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Rocks that look like other things: alien autopsies

I'm noticing trends amongst my rock pictures, which may say more about my object recognition skills than I imagine. It may also say more about my traumatic childhood than I imagine.

For exery inspiring starscape, landscape, face or bunny shape I see, I seem to come up with an equal selection of gory pathology slides. Tonight is no exception, and so I present to you some alien autopsies in Rhyolite:

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Rocks that look like other things: cats

Still on the rhyolite, I've found a good opportunity to compare the best that the normal camera can do, versus what the microscope can come up with.

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