Article 53991 Look at this photo printed on algae in a petri dish

Look at this photo printed on algae in a petri dish

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Xeni Jardin
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Okay, now THAT is a selfie.

This is such a cool photography/biology experiment.

Says IMGURian @MxMarx, I put a petri dish filled with algae under my enlarger and left it on for a week. The algae grew thicker and greener where the image was brighter, so it formed a positive image in the petri dish!"

Scroll through the entire gallery to see how this was done.

Printing photographs on algae

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