Beautiful element photography on Wikimedia Commons

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Beautiful element photography on Wikimedia Commons
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I have been reading the Picture of the Day feed from Wikimedia Commons for about a month, now, and it is fast becoming one of the best parts of my daily newsreader experience. Every day there’s a gorgeous new publicly-licensed photograph pre-selected for quality by a vote amongst Wikimedia community members.

That’s how I happened upon the work of German inorganic chemist and photographer alchemist-hp (English-language page). She or he takes amazing photographs of element, mineral, and chemical samples and has a stated goal (badly translated by yours truly) “to create special pictures of all naturally occurring elements.”

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2 thoughts on “Beautiful element photography on Wikimedia Commons

  1. mightyohm says:

    My favorite element in his collection:

    Dominostein:
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Dominostein_edelherb.jpg

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