Having managed to create some pleasing images from the tester slides available in the uni lab, I’ve been keen to get on with taking my own swabs to create new slides and images.
With the DIY kit I’ve been supplied with, I’ve taken a couple of swabs for testing: vaginal and urine.
Once the swabs are taken, methylene blue dye is added to highlight any cells etc to view.
The image below is of a few slides I prepared the evening before the lab session.
Home Slide Creator Workspace
Back into the laboratory to get on with creating images of slides made from my own swabs.
Obligatory Lab Coat and Gloves
Images from the slides I prepared at home were ok but just not as interesting as I had hoped. At this point I began experimenting with different chemical dyes (regardless of chemical properties and uses) to try and create more exciting, colourful images.
Slide Creation Workspace
The process went on for hours but mainly because it was so exciting being able to mess about (pretty literally as seen in the images above) with the different dyes to see what came out.
The slides in themselves are a pretty attractive by product of the image experiments.
Resulting Slides
Now to get back to the ‘editing suite’ (my study) to have a proper look at what’s been done……..
