NYTimes article on Nature shots done on a Colour Copier.

[heller_harris]

The NYTimes is running an <a

href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/science/10eisn.html"> article </a> on

the copier photos of evolutionary biologist Thomas Eisner, who was a colleague

of Edmund O. Wilson.

[unendingwonder]

I believe it was popular photography magazine that had an article about using your scanner to make similar images. I thought it was an interesting idea and plan on trying it once I unbury my scanner :)

[J.W. Wall]

Scanner images by Joseph Scheer are featured in an exhibit now running at the University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson. Scheer produced very large, detailed prints of mostly very colorful moths. http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/

[unendingwonder]

guess what I spent my day doing? experimenting with my scanner. Oh, so long...I'd rather take pictures with my camera I think...

[william_frucht]

Folks, what Eisner was using was not a photographic scanner but a scanning electron

microscope. This is a sophisticated scientific instrument that does indeed produce very

interesting images, but it takes up an entire room, and sample preparation is difficult. You

can get a used one for about $35,000 at the low end. There are a bunch of sites featuring

this kind of microphotography, which you can find by Googling "scanning electron

microscope."