Amazing Fish Specimens Photographs
Washington-based professor adam summers uses marine specimens collected from fishing operations as the medium in an artistic project revealing the anatomical structure of sea creatures. using two dyes – alcian blue to stain cartilaginous elements and alizarin red to turn tissue a shade of crimson — summers then lightly bleaches the species to remove dark pigments, leaving a snow-white fish.
Amazing Fish Specimens Photographs‘lampsucker’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘greenling’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘butterfly’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘carp’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘bonnethead’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘little skate’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
(left) ‘scalyhead’
(right) ‘sculpin’
images © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
(left) ‘electric’
(right) ‘little skate’
images © adam summers
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Washington-based professor adam summers uses marine specimens collected from fishing operations as the medium in an artistic project revealing the anatomical structure of sea creatures. using two dyes – alcian blue to stain cartilaginous elements and alizarin red to turn tissue a shade of crimson — summers then lightly bleaches the species to remove dark pigments, leaving a snow-white fish.
Amazing Fish Specimens Photographs‘lampsucker’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘greenling’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘butterfly’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘carp’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘bonnethead’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
‘little skate’
image © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
(left) ‘scalyhead’
(right) ‘sculpin’
images © adam summers
Amazing Fish Specimens
(left) ‘electric’
(right) ‘little skate’
images © adam summers
Via
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