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Felice Frankel
"Here’s another example using still images to observe changes over time," Frankel says. The grid shows the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction taking place in a petri dish at 11-second intervals over a period of five minutes.
Cracked on the surface of a flatbed scanner, a raw egg is held in place by a bowl.
"Planning ahead for this photograph of a drop of water," Frankel says, "I anticipated and intended that the background of a color palette would be out of focus with my 105 macro lens. If you look carefully, you can see the focused color grid within the drop."
Frankel often uses background, like this color palette, as an element in composition.
A more magnified version shows even more detail of the blue morpho butterfly wings, which "appear blue because of the nature of their surfaces, reflecting mostly the blue wavelengths of light," Frankel says.
Frankel used a scanning electron microscope to take this color-corrected photograph of blue morpho butterfly wings.
How do you show the progression of time? In this series of images—each photographed separately and then assembled into one grid—a material called block copolymer changes color as the solvent it's suspended in evaporates.