This set of photographs are part of a project I have been working on for four years. They join my passion for photography and joy of amateur science. I bought a series of >50 year old research microscopes. Then a complicated process of connecting of my modern digital camera to them. The main microscope is set up with polarising filters and various homemade wave plates. The result is an unexpected array of beautiful vistas of shape and colour. Real photographs of microscopic crystals of mixtures of sweeteners and other chemicals in polarised light, made using a microscope that is older than me.
Born in London, but growing up in South Africa as the son of two working artists (painters), Bevil has been familiar with the art world, from a very young age. Since moving back to the UK at age 20, Bevil has worked as a computer programmer and IT consultant, living and working in London for the past 32 years. For all of this time, he has been an avid photographer, and taken many paid assignments to photograph products, people, events, and hobbyist forays into the wonders of nature, from astrophotography, to nature photography, landscapes, macro, extreme macro, and now photomicrography.
