Local Pollen

By Dan Murphy

• I started by collecting flowers from different trees and flowers in my neigborhood. After removing the stamens I made slides by rubbing them in glycerine.

• Most of the samples yeilded either poor amounts of pollen, or were uninteresting to look at.

• Surprisingly my best samples came from an unlikely source.

• “Bee pollen” collected by honey makers and sold as a nutritional supplement yielded many of my best pictures.

• Unfortunately it is impossible to know what flower each grain came from

Raw Images

Renunculs vicaralia40x phase contrast

Raw Images

Horse Nettle 40x Dic

Marigold 10x darkfield

Marigold 10x darkfield

Bee pollen 40x UV

Marigold 100x phase

Bee pollen 40x combined UV/brightfield

Bee pollen 40x DIC

Pink Magnolia 40x DIC

Convolutions

Pink magnolia 40xBackground subrtactedUnsharp maskedContrast adjusted

Grape Hyacinth 40x phase

Look up table

Grape Hyacinth 40x phase with modified

LUT

Blue atlas cedar 100xConfocal DIC

Overlays

Overlayed with contrast adjusted red channel

Overlayed with false -color red channel

Blue Atlas Blue Atlas CedarCedar

Blue Atlas CedarFalse-color 3d projection

Tulip magnolia

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