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It's sunrise again! |

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Laser beam on a screen |

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apparent camera spectroscopy effect with salt crystals |



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Diwali fireworks! |

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Firecrackers ( with Sony-Ericsson w700i and digital zoom) |


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single hair magnified ( 15X & 45x with 3X digital zoom) |

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laser light travels through a material |

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laser illuminated sugar crystal |

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sugar crystal under laser pointer light |

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mustard seeds magnified (not grapes!) |

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bee - shows its sting |

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house fly specie petrified by house spider |

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"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the spider to the fly |

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house spider- still alive and kicking!(till the housemaid ended its innings with mopping operations) |

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Surface topography of a butterfly wing-magnified, projected, then photographed with mobile camera |

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dragon-fly wing image magnified and projected (shows fracture in wing) |

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money-plant leaf showing cells - projected on wall (~12X) & photographed |

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moneyplant leaf showing cells attached to the midrib vein |

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the same money-plant leaf cells with 3X digital zoom |

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image shows onion-skin cells |

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onion-skin cells magnified |


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same onion skin cells ( 15X &45X commercial Ambala,Indian Microscope) |

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Optical 15X & 45X and Digital zoom 8X |

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Optical 15x & 45X and Digital 16x zoom |

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15X & 45X Optical and 32X Digital zoom |

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hen egg's albumin image |


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1 cm scale magnified ~80X to 80 cm projected on wall |

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tip of syringe magnified ~80X and projected & photographed |

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giant bee image - approx. 75 cms. across |

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Inscribed rice grain ~ 8 cms. across |

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illuminated syringe with hand microscope |


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magnified blood smear |

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image from Projector Aperture |

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aerial view of Grundig projector,modified, some lenses not shown |
Short duration laser produced from a sugar crystal |

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The oscillatory transients of the laser followed by a standing wave due to boundary reflection. |

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laser light from a pointer travels through sugar crystals. |

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Computer monitor with hand microscope |

Polarisation of laser light by sugar crystal |

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Laser pointer light |
Laser pointer speckle (some modes partially seen ) |

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Fraunhoffer diffraction? - from apertures on projector top cover |
Light - Diffraction and Interference effects |

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light diffracts through a butterfly wing! |

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Dragon-fly wing diffracting light |

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bird plume diffracts light |

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air bubbles in water dispersing light |
Light going in straight lines,waves and whorls!?? |

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(A mysterious photo taken by me that i could not repeat again.) |

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Brush bristles magnified , projected and dig photographed. |

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Computer monitor with hand microscope |

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image with light source and pin-hole detector |

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bee image with point source and pin-hole detector |

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Pin-hole image |


Tina and Hena try fancy-dress! Picture by Aunt Isabella

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In loving memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Iyadurai who went to be with the Lord on May7,2006 |
Mrs. Elizabeth wrote the entire Bible in the Tamil language,inspired by her daughter Stella,who accomplished the same
feat (1987-1994),when a resident Lecturer.

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horizon at Uvary beach |

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ant specimen preserved in gum drop |

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Grandpa's old house at Idaiyangudi |

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Remembering the good ol'days - Normans |

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Dharma Singh poses at Dr. Robert Caldwell's house |

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Late Mrs. Elizabeth Iyadurai |

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UTC Library, Bangalore |
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