POSTAGE STAMPS, 2022 & 2023
We have published two emitions of the postage stamps - the minerals and chemical elements! I am so lucky about that!
THE MINERALS, 2021
These are some new images I did in the Mineralogical museum of our faculty. I am like a kid in a sweet shop there! :-)
THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS, 2020
Just the elements in their purest fashion we can produce! All of these beautiful objects have been displayed in out interactive Periodic Table at our faculty…
SAND GRAINS, 2014 - 2020
Do you understand, what are you looking at right now? Well, this is not common! So, what do you see? This is a microphotograph of the sand! However, each grain was shot with the optical microscope approximately 100 times at various focus depth to merge these shots down. Then, we moved each grain under the scanning electron microscope to get awesome sharpness and together with my students Maruška and Šárka we merged all these data together! So here, in this one particular shot you observe an area of the size about 1 x 1 cm, being shot with approximately 3,000 images, whose post-process took us more than few days in the Photoshop. Finally, we got this “one Instagram snapshot”! :-) You really have to love the science to make this… :-)
LIGHT MICROSCOPY, 2019
This is a freshwater jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbii, one of many models posing under my light microscope. For those understanding Czech there is a short movie about the techniques I am using at Mall.TV.
THE COLLECTIONS, 2018
This series took me a few month to produce, from the initial discovery of absolutely insane depository of the Czech National Museum, to shooting and finally, pos-process. Several students helped me with the lighting as well as with the preparation of the biggest photography exhibition both me and the museum ever had. You can explore the Czech Republic National Museum's Natural History Collections at Google Arts & Culture web, or, if you understand Czech, fully enjoy interactive exhibition tour here. Shots got the silver medal at Tokyo International Foto Awards 2018.
PALEOECOLOGY - WHAT YOU CAN FIND IN VERY OLD (~12K BC) SEDIMENTS? 2017
MINERALS AND ELEMENTS, 2014 - 2015
THE SNAILS, 2015
PLANT SEEDS, 2014
I get these awesome seeds from the Umweltzentrum Dresden, with ask to take some shots. So I did ;-)
SAND GRAINS, 2014
Have you ever imagined, how the sand looks under the microscope? :-) Here are just few examples of the structures. Do not be afraid of clicking on this link
Five sand grains from Crete - each shoot by light microscope as well as SEM and merged together...
LUMINISCENCE, 2014
TAJEMNÁ EFIPIA, 2014 (Science communication video, in Czech)
CRUSTACEAN EGGS, 2013
Thanks to these small objects, crustaceans can survive absolutely extreme conditions...
THE HUMAN HEAD, 2013
PLANTS ON THE MOVE, 2012
Not really scientific, but also not too traditional views on the plants. Series taken for an occasion of the International Plant Fascination Day.
BUTTERFLY WINGS, 2011
The tiny scales covering both the butterflies’ wings and body are modified hairs providing various fundamental functions including insulation and thermoregulation and aiding gliding flight and colouration. Most scales are lamellar, while other forms may be hair-like or specialized as androconia exuding sexual pheromone. The lumen or surface of the scales has a complex structure. It induces colour either due to the pigmentary colours contained within or due to optical phenomena based on its three-dimensional structure. The various scales display a large diversity of vivid or indistinct patterns helping the butterfly to protect itself by camouflage and mimicry, as well as helping it to attract mates.
This series I did for the invited exhibition in the National Museum in the Prague. It was awesome work with great people, and I was really amazed by the butterfly wings. Finally, with these shots I won the gold medal at International Photography Awards, something like an Oscar for the movie makers.
FOSSIL CRUSTACEANS, 2011
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
SEM! CRUSTACEANA, 2010
It was like a dream. I just finished my masters at the University and received a call from the editor in chief - of the best (maybe for me, personally) Czech popularization journal - Živa. She offered me my own exhibition in the centre of Prague. Topic: Crustaceans of the World. Well, there was nothing to think about and I did it. Worked hard on the shots, post process, labels, prints, advertising. And results? It worked! :-) The exhibition became known quite well and was shown to public on about ten different places in the Czech Republic until now! Thanks to the support of the journal as well University I printed with the best possible technology - with the LightJet. It still lives. And maybe... there will be a book on this topic as well. I left them here with merged labels (in the Czech), as they are an essential part of it. Enjoy!
