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This polypore fungus is found growing from the rotting wood on the forest floor. It's integrate pattern shows the diversity of nature's art. These are easily found in the fall in oak and hickory forests.

I am a mentor taught/self taught photographer with an interest in photography for over 50 years. During summers, while in undergraduate school, a professional landscape photographer and a professional studio/wedding photographer mentored me in basic photographic and in developing techniques including process and wet plate. While in graduate school, I used photomicrography of chromosomes to describe cell division during reproduction and development and electron microscopy combined with biochemistry and molecular biology to answer questions of the development of parasites during the host-parasite interaction. During my academic career I continued to use these techniques along with photo-image analysis to further my work. My interests in...