Daniel Turrietta

Darkroom

Hidden worlds

Plants, animals and the small lives in pond water, photographed through my microscope in phase contrast and dark field.

A lengthwise section of a Selaginella cone glowing against black, a central stalk lined on both sides with round spore cases, several packed with spores.
Selaginella cone
Two egg-shaped slime mould spore cases on long, thin stalks, their walls a lattice of fine threads, lit gold against a dark ground.
Slime mould spore cases
Dozens of round Volvox colonies in deep red, crowded across a black field, each a sphere of tiny cells.
Volvox colonies
A cross-section of a beach grass leaf curled into a horseshoe, its ridged inner surface studded with veins, on black.
Beach grass leaf, in cross-section
Clusters of translucent Volvox colonies with daughter colonies inside them, drifting across a dark field speckled with small cells.
Volvox, asexual colonies
A section through a dandelion flower head, a row of pale blue-green florets, each with a small red-orange body at its base.
Dandelion flower head, in section