23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
002-Crystals-BALG

This is the crystallization of amino acids under polarized light, a mixture of alanine and glutamine, dissolved in alcohol, imaged under a 20x polarized light microscope.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2025
Date Uploaded: 11.2025
Photo Location: Beijing, China
Camera: GFX 100
Copyright: © Dong Yien