Blaschka Glass Flower Collection

I have first heard of Blaschka Glass Flower collection in a small article from Scientific American. Irrespective of my late acquaintance with them, they apparently have attracted considerable  popular and scholarly attention  for almost a century so I had to go. And I didn’t have any excuse for postponing my long scheduled visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History as it was now in close proximity of my house in East Cambridge. First of all, it was considerably and suprisingly better than what I  expected and honestly I had tuned my expectations rather high. To my delight I saw that the glass replicas were not limited to the real life samples of different plants but extend to the organs of flowers like the pistils(gynoecium) and stamen(androecium). Moreover, in most cases there were several scaled cross sections of those organs. It was sheer beauty what I have experienced there and I kneeled before the uncompromising dedication to nature`s original designs as well as the incredible glass craftmanship involved in. And I should know how to judge this, as all my childhood has been around Sisecam`s (the major glass producer of Turkey) production space due to my father`s position there. I went to the museum to take some photographs to document my visit but the poor illumination, the tight juxtaposition of different species and the worn out glass encapsulations were proving to be major obstacles and impeding my work in a concerted fashion. But the biggest drawback was on my side, my Nikon S-6 (which is not even a D-SLR), nothwitstanding it`s cool design and cool electronic features like the built-in wi-fi, rarely results in  good photographical results expecially for shots from close distances. So I will return back later this week with Kerem`s old school 35mm Nikon to compansate my first visit. However,  later this afternoon, using the poorly taken photographs from the collection as templates (but not merely playing on the with the tools in the program instead  I actually drew everything by myself), I could manage to come up with some cool looking pop-art-like creations through Adobe Illustrator; well much alike what you would buy from an Urban Outfitters store for your house/dorm. Anyway, I might actually scale up some these to put into my house as well.