Through the lens

I love my microscope at work, but it’s a bugger to keep the dust off!

Years back I took some photography classes at my local community college and fell in love with taking pictures and working in the darkroom.  I really enjoyed the process of taking pictures, the “in the moment” mind that you need to get a nice shot. I tried recapture that feeling at work by stealing an old microscope from another lab so that I could look at color samples during the day just for the joy of it.

Maybe I can convince the boss to get me an actual digital set up so that I can photograph some slides.  Some of the samples look amazing through the lens, abstract and full of stories in miniature. It would be interesting to tell those stories.