New snowflake wallpaper: forget-me-not

Small and beautiful snowflake Forget-me-not now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 x 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 x 2160 (Ultra HD 4K).

Another brick in the wall

1872 x 752

Cells in onion layer (used iodine to make cell cores visible).

Gear: "snowflake" macro setup (i described it in article about snowflake macro photography). Glass background with back light, averaged 64 identical shots.

Details in 1:1 scale:

Strawberry fields

Up close surface of strawberry (2695 x 2695)

Surface of strawberry at high magnification looks weird. I never thought that strawberries are hairy, and their seeds have sprouts. I had just one problem when took source photos for this picture: strawberry is too glossy. I placed white plastic bag around berry to diffuse daylight, and this makes reflects acceptable. However, we clearly see surface cell structure only with reflects.

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Cell structure of strawberry surface, scale 1:1

Cell structure visible on seed's surface, too:

Details of seed on strawberry surface, scale 1:1

For this picture, i used my "snowflake" setup (you'll find detailed description of this simple macro rig in article about snowflake macro photography), and combined averaging and focus stacking techniques: 10 groups of shots with different focus was captured; each group contained 8 identical photos for averaging (80 source RAW photos total).

Interesting: Google's Deep Dream sees it that way. :)

When this picture was finished, i've started new interesting topic - pollen grains: