Interesting desktop pictures and the like

Posted by: garyi on 04 November 2004

Well basically my lovely wife is very talented and has been working on some images for us to play with (Sheila is an Electron Microscopist)

I think they are rather cool, and thought some of you guys might like them as desktop wall paper or what ever.

The premise for Sheila was to come up with these images, and then adjust them to make funky photos for use in promotional material at work.

The images were produced on a scanning electron microscope, after being coated in 4nm of gold.

The images were bought home on a TDK blank cd and applied to our Mac!

From there we funked our funky stuff to come up with these images which you are welcome to download, please don't take the piss I am not charging for them!

Here is an example, the rest are links because I don't want to piss Adam off.



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.irwin/ROSEN.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.irwin/ROSEH.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.irwin/TSALT11.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.irwin/POLLEN3.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.irwin/SKINE.jpg

If you are interested I can tell you what they all are, but have a guess first!
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Maria vd K
Hi,

Lovely pictures, espescially the Pollen3.
Thank your wife please for me,


Maria
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by JonR
Nice pics, Gazza!

Tell Sheila well done from me.

Cheers,

jon
Posted on: 04 November 2004 by Edouard S.
I like that last one. Looks like a groovy bed of autumn leaves in some spaced out forest.

Am I right ?

Edouard S.
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Hawk
Top photos,

TSALT11 looks like one of those soft juggling balls that everyone got for christmas a few years back?

ROSEN looks suspiciously like something that came out of my little girls nose!

SKINE is a dead ringer for how i ended up within 30 seconds of my first attempt at Unreal 2004!

and finally id probably rub cream on POLLEN3...

awsome pics...

cheers

Neil
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by JBoulder
Nice.

But for some reason I feel a little sick now.... Red Face

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"the recognition of facts is the beginning of all wisdom."

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Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Alex S.
The first one is a picture of Gary's brain whenever it sees something with a half chewed apple on it.
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
Eduard the pictures are at around x20000 so no its not autumn leaves.

Alex at this magnification you are indeed correct it is my brain.
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by matthewr
The first two are roses. The third table salt. The fouth pollen. The fifth is a Skine (a sort of small rodent).

Matthew
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Martin Clark
Nice pics. So what is 'rosen'? Paper fibres?
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
Matthew basically bagged it, although not the last one!

Sheila tried to squeeze the rodent into the microscope chamber but it was very much against being placed into a vacuum and having all its moisture sucked out.

They never play ball them damn skines.
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Lo Fi Si
Gary

Any chance of posting the B&W EM originals? not meaning to cast aspersions on your photoshopping skills, of course.
Skine is the 5th skin, like 2nd skin only more so.


Simon
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
I'll get them up, miserable Winker
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by Maria vd K
Hi Garyi,

Can she put more on here, liked them very much
I have one on my desk top.

Maria
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
Maria et all, I will get them resized and wacked up on Sunday.

Maria, are you like... a girl or something?
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by JonR
Yup,

She suuuuuuuure is!

And she has an axe.

jon Winker
Posted on: 05 November 2004 by garyi
Ok....


Backing away slowly...
Posted on: 06 November 2004 by Maria vd K
quote:
Originally posted by garyi:
Maria et all, I will get them resized and wacked up on Sunday.

Maria, are you like... a girl or something?


Hi,
yes i am a girl, and nothing else!!!!
like audio and music.
I did like the picture very much.

Sorry i have no axe. (some one thinks i have Razz)

Maria
Posted on: 10 November 2004 by Maria vd K
Hi,

Will there be new pictures.?????

Maria