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X-rays of flowers

Cory Doctorow at 8:12 am Tue, Mar 20, 2012

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Avi sez, "Brendan Fitzpatrick has made a beautiful series of x-ray photographs of flowers." And he's selling prints!

Floral X-rays (Thanks, Avi!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Palomino

Audubon at the airport.
snowmentality

Lovely! It reminds me of the glass flowers at Harvard.
RichSPK

My employer did this a couple years ago to market the Selenia Dimensions 2D Digital Mammography System. This isn’t the link I had in mind, but it does show flowers under the Selenia system:
http://mdimaging.net/mammography-flowers.php

I used to have a Hologic calendar in my office with pictures of x-rayed flowers.
prof_jellis

I saw similar work, equally haunting in monochrome, at the River Gallery in Chattanooga TN. The artist is Don Dudenbostel, who was a student of Ansel Adams. Lovely things
http://www.river-gallery.com/artist.php?artistId=37#statement
- prof_jellis
  
  a deeper more direct link:
  http://www.x-rayarts.com/
Guest

Really cool!