2025 hit me with a lot more BS than I was expecting, but with the semester winding down now, I'm starting to get back to creative things on the internet 🔬🔌🎹📡

Rotating the polarizer under some vitamin-c crystals looks lovely up close

#photography #microscopy #sciart

Fun with polarizers and baking soda. Grains of sodium bicarb are birefringent, so the crystal disappear and reappear as the angle between the optic axis and plane of incidence changes

#photography #microscopy #sciart

Soap bubbles reflected inside soap bubbles, 100x

#microscopy #sciart

Finally convinced keyboard cat to join the band (via spectraphon) #synthsky