Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Just stunning

From: Mother Nature Network (MNN)



14 beautiful X-ray images that shed a unique light on nature

Take a regular X-ray image, invert it and add color. What do you get? Gorgeous art.
X-ray image of a chameleon
All photos: Arie van ’t Riet
Seeing nature through a different lens
Arie van 't Riet's intriguing art was inspired through his work in the medical field. After a friend of his asked him to X-ray a painting — something much thinner than the human body X-rays van 't Riet was familiar with — he was inspired to move on to an even thinner object: flowers. Now, his photographs portray insects and even large animals. Rather than exposing living critters to the radiation, van 't Riet uses animals that have already died from one cause or another.
But somehow, the final compositions are vibrant with life.
The X-ray images don't start out like the bright and colorful final products. He takes a regular X-ray image, sometimes using X-rays of different frequencies, inverts it and adds new hues.
"I add color to my images to bring back some of the surface," van 't Riet said in a TEDx talk he gave in Groningen in the Netherlands. He says that he tries to combine the external surface with the inner world exposed by X-rays.
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X-ray image of pansies
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X-ray image of turtles in a pond
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X-ray image of a monkey in a tree
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X-ray image of a bouquet of wildflowers
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X-ray image of a frog in a pond
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X-ray image of a snake and a lizard
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X-ray image of a chicken
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X-ray image of a coot in Iris flowers
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X-ray image of butterfly and fauna
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X-ray image of mushrooms
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X-ray image of snake and flowers
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X-ray image of chameleon
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X-ray image of tulips
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Anna Norris is an associate editor at Mother Nature Network.

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