Macro photography – rona black photography

French Lilac Flower

October 29, 2017September 6, 2022 Rona Black Photography17 Comments

One of my photos is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Cell Chemical Biology. The article describes research into metformin, a drug derived from the French lilac (Galega officinalis), for the treatment of breast cancer. The research was done at the University of Minnesota, and was sponsored in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

This is especially meaningful to me because my grandmother was a cancer research scientist.

http://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/issue?pii=S2451-9456(16)X0011-6

Budding Lily of the Nile

April 19, 2016February 13, 2022 Rona Black Photography22 Comments

A macro photograph of a budding agapanthus with colorful bokeh at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Though not of the lily family, the beautiful blue flowers of the agapanthus plant are commonly known as lilies of the Nile and African lilies.

Sunlit Pink-orange Bougainvillea

April 10, 2016February 13, 2022 Rona Black Photography12 Comments

A close-up photograph of the colorful bracts of bougainvillea planted outside of the Getty Center Restaurant/Cafe building in Los Angeles, California.

Delicate Fern Frond Spiral

May 24, 2015March 27, 2016 Rona Black Photography28 Comments

The tip of one of the fertile fronds on a deer fern (Blechnum spicant). Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC

May 2015

The Beauty of the End

May 10, 2015May 24, 2015 Rona Black Photography14 Comments

I was taken with the delicate structure of this leaf at the end of its life.

Computer Memory

March 29, 2015May 3, 2015 Rona Black Photography16 Comments

An abstract macro photograph of a Ferrite Memory Core plane from an early IBM mainframe computer. This grid is made up of fine wire threaded through tiny magnetic ferrite rings (cores). Magnetic core memory, a type of random-access memory (RAM), was introduced in 1955 and succeeded in the 1970s by solid-state memory in integrated circuits.

The Museum of Modern Art has three in its permanent collection, but none on display.

Waltz of the Snowflakes

February 8, 2015April 15, 2015 Rona Black Photography25 Comments

Although it feels like spring in Salt Lake City today, here are a couple of images from our last snowfall.

Waltz of the Snowflakes by Rona Black — Waltz of the Snowflakes

A Jewel of a Snowflake by Rona Black — A Jewel of a Snowflake

Autumn Rosebud

December 23, 2014April 15, 2015 Rona Black Photography10 Comments

One last bud before winter.

Salt Lake City

December 2014

Busy Ladybugs

May 15, 2014April 15, 2015 Rona Black Photography12 Comments

Two pair of ladybugs practicing the rites of spring on a rose in Queen Mary’s Gardens, Regent’s Park, London. If you look closely, you can see an aphid looking on.

May 2014

Early Roses

May 12, 2014April 15, 2015 Rona Black Photography14 Comments

A preview of what’s to come in June.

Queen Mary’s Gardens, Regent’s Park, London
May 2014

Category: Macro photography

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Computer Memory

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