PETER JUZAK
Microcrystals in polarized light, Ascorbic acid in a magnification scale of 20x / magnification approx. 250:1.

The picture was taken with a polarizing microscope JENALB from Carl Zeiss Jena. A Sony Alpha 6500 with the MF photo adapter APO for digital microphotography from BW-Optik is connected to the microscope, a GFPApo 25x/0.65/oo/0.17/-A from Carl Zeiss Jena was used as microscope objective.

Some ascorbic acid is sprinkled on a slide and covered with a coverslip, then everything is placed on a hot plate and melted. After everything has cooled down, crystals will form on the slide after some time. If the slide is placed under the microscope and the crystals are viewed in cross-polarized light*, they reveal a fantastic world of colors and shapes to the observer.

*The slide is placed between two linear polarizing filters that are offset by 90 angles and illuminated from below.

Author
Peter Juzak (62) is a bookbinder as well as a graphic and desktop publisher. He has been conducting experimental photo studies on micro crystals for more than 30 years. He has worked for Bayer Vital GmbH and was author and photographer for Medicalpicture GmbH.

I'm the winner of The Big Picture Competition 2016 in the category Art of Nature.
https://www.bigpicturecompetition.org/2016winners

I'm a finalist of The Big Picture Competition 2021 in the category Art of Nature.
https://www.bigpicturecompetition.org/2021-winners

Nikon Small World HONORABLE MENTION, 2016 SMALL WORLD IN, MOTION COMPETITION
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/people/peter-juzak

Exhibition in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture April - June 2018
Hannover Medical School, November 27-February 2014 "The fascination of microcrystals"

Pictures of me are published in the book "Wonders: Spectacular Moments in Nature Photography", published by the California Academy of Sciences.
http://mikrokristalle.org/spectacular-mome

Website
https://mikrokristalle.org/

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