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Scanner Magic

A scanner is basically a camera too.  There's more to a scanner than just scanning documents and photographs, it can be used as a camera to record any number of objects.  Here's one example....

Out walking one day, I found this decaying leaf looking like a skeleton.  The best and easiest way to record this was by using a flatbed scanner.

Any number of things could be scanned and this was once a subject of discussion on a photo forum one day.
The subject of Kirlian Photography came up, a subject I have been interested in for years.  Kirlian Photography is where images are formed on photographic paper (or film) by passing a high voltage over the photographic material creating an aura-like image.  It was suggested we could attempt to achieve a similar effect using a scanner.

I decided to have a go, placing a small bottle on the scanner, some grains of sugar and a cheese knife.

It was a fun to do and produced an effective result.

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