X-rays of flowers

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X-rays of flowers by Hugh Turvey


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They say beauty is only skin deep - but Hugh Turvey's x-rays of flowers show they are captivating through and through. Hugh, who trained as a designer / art director before studying photography Gered Mankowitz, first used X-rays in 1996 to photograph a human skull as a favour to a musician friend who needed an image for an album cover. He has since used the technique to produce a series of coloured x-rays of everyday objects


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Hugh, 39, has been fascinated since childhood with getting underneath the surface of things. He said: "I'm driven by my curiosity. It's about discovering the world around us. As a kid I would take things apart to see what was inside and how they worked. I have an insane curiosity for how things work.
X-ray gives me a way to get that insight and turn it into art"



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Arum lilies


 

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A coloured X-ray of a rose


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A coloured X-ray of a lily


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Thistles


 

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A close-up of an X-ray of a thistle flower


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Stargazer lilies


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An orchid (Stanhopea hasselvoliana)


 

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A rose


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Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-mist) seed capsules


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Agapanthus


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Lisianthus flowers


 
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Thank you.
Made one of the pic as my desktop background.
 
Very nice. Thanks for putting them on.

I can't help asking - any X-rated X-rays?

Cheers!
 
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