End Of The Year Review

This past year has seen a variety of events that promote the colorisations, and also continued work of Dr. Hargraves.
RedBubble provided us with more popularity than ever of the Diatom Mandalas and Diatom/Dinoflagellate images in various challenges and features, and also favored us with several purchases  of individual prints.

Perhaps the most exciting event occurred with the announcement that my colorised image of Cretaceous Raptor #5 © FD was selected as the cover of the prestigious Ecology Letters journal:

"Great news--your fabulous image was selected for the journal cover! Congratulations--Ecology Letters is by far the #1 journal in Ecology and this is a great recognition for us and for diatoms, which do not get the spotlight very often!"  

On Friday, November 9th, at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce, Florida, Dr. Paul E Hargraves gave 'A tripartite presentation on the lifestyles and diversity of microalgae in the Indian River lagoon system; whether or not harmful algal blooms are a clear and present danger [or not], and whether characterising the IRL as 'the most diverse estuary in North America' is a bogus claim, or a reality'.

In all, this has been an exciting and productive year.  New images are planned for the coming early spring, and perhaps a new exhibition.  More about that later. Thank you for your continued interest.

Happy New Year all.  Peace and goodwill. ~ FD

Microalgae, HABs, and 'the most diverse estuary in North America'

On Friday, November 9th, at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce, Florida, Dr. Paul E Hargraves gave 'A tripartite presentation on the lifestyles and diversity of microalgae in the Indian River lagoon system; whether or not harmful algal blooms are a clear and present danger [or not], and whether characterising the IRL as 'the most diverse estuary in North America' is a bogus claim, or a reality'.

Dr. Hargraves is Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, Univ. of Rhode Island, Affiliate Professor, Harbor Branch Oceanographic inst., and FAU Research Associate, Smithsonian Marine Laboratory.

Exciting Day

© F Darling/P Hargraves

Well, I had a pretty exciting day yesterday.  My colleague, Dr. Paul E Hargraves, sent me an email telling him/me that my/our colorised image file of diatoms/dinoflagellates has been added to the website called the "Plankton Art" section of the ISSHA website [International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae].  Fay Darling's Plankton Art.  Karin Rengefors, Secretary of ISSA, was kind enough to contact Paul, and tell us about the inclusion.  "The overall mandate of the Society is to promote and foster research and training programs o­n harmful algae, and to co-sponsor meetings o­n this topic at the national, regional, and international level." [if you click on 'Fay Darling's Plankton Art' then click again on the blue bar, it will take you to our Flickr page to see more images].

The Real Thing!

Ecology Letters, Sept. 2012

I am thrilled to post an image of my two hard copies of Ecology Letters recently sent to me by my contact:  Ms. Sophia I. Passy, PhD , Associate Professor, UTA.

 

Sophia was instrumental in searching for, and ultimately brokering the cover image to Ecology Letters. The image was chosen from a large group of submissions, so the competition was sharp.  Pretty exciting happening to actually have them on hand now.

Here It Is - Ecology Letters

I am very happy and excited to announce that one of our diatom images has been selected to be on the new cover of Ecology Letters, September 2012.  The cover image was selected from a group of other candidates.  It is a different colorway version of my Cretaceous Raptor image in blues, but is a really nice adaptation of colors  well suited to the journal cover and format.

I have to thank Sophia Passy, PhD, Professor of Biology, from the University of Texas, Arlington, who initiated an inquiry to Dr. Hargraves about submitting an image for consideration to become a cover for the latest EL cover.  After some correspondence, and my submission of the image, on July 9th, Dr. Passy sent me the following: "Great news--your fabulous image was selected for the journal cover! Congratulations-Ecology Letters  is by far the #1 journal in Ecology and this is a great recognition for us and for diatoms, which do not get the spotlight very often!'

About: Dr. Paul E. Hargraves

After a multi-decadal career at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Paul Hargraves is now an Affiliated Research Professor in Harbor Branch's Center for Marine Ecosystem Health.  His research interests focus on the biodiversity, systematics, ultrastructure, and life cycles of microscopic life in aquatic environments, and his >100 publications include research on fresh water, coastal, and oceanic environments from the North Atlantic to the Antarctic, from the Peruvian Amazon to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, from the Indian River Lagoon to 50-million year-old fossils.

During his career, Dr. Hargraves has received research funding totaling several million dollars from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency, the National Sea Grant program, and several private organizations.  He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Costa Rica and at the University of Salzburg, Austria, served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and held adjunct positions at several other universities.  His former students, including 12 Ph.D. and 20 M.S. recipients, have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government, and he has served on the thesis committees of over 50 additional graduate students.  He attributes his early and lifelong interest in the marine environment to many summers spent digging in the mud on Cape Cod.

Great News

Cretaceous Raptor #5 © FD

"Great news--your fabulous image was selected for the journal cover! Congratulations--Ecology Letters is by far the #1 journal in Ecology and this is a great recognition for us and for diatoms, which do not get the spotlight very often!"  
Certainly exciting news. I can't wait to see it in publication.  I will post the cover when I receive a copy  

 Wow!  That's exciting for sure.

Blue Ribbon

Blue Ribbon © PH/FD

Our Blue Ribbon image made a sale this week at Red Bubble.  There has been a consistent interest in all of the images, and nice to know that they are so appreciated.

A Sale!

Midnight Triangle© - Trigonium altmans

I just received notice that one of my colorized images was sold at RedBubble. It is an interesting shape that I named Midnight Triangle [Trigonium altmans].  Not a big monetary sale, but one very nice image that was selected, nevertheless.  Thank you very much to the person who bought the print. This always supports the cause.

Mauve Kaleidoscope

Torture Magenta ©

Mauve Scallop©

My newest creation is this Mauve Scallop kaleidoscope design that has just received two features in two different groups at RedBubble.It was derived from a Digital colorization of an electron microscopic image of  Ebridian done in two different color ways - for this one it originated from the one called Torture Magenta.---->

Art For Sale for the New Year

'Miro Mira' - Bottom Row, Second from Right

A favorite combination titled 'Miro Mira' was selected as a feature in 'Art For Sale' at RedBubble yesterday.

It is pictured in the bottom row, second from the right.  Interesting to see all the different shapes and how they all blend together in this stunning group.  So happy to be included. 

The images all appear on the group Facebook Fan Page too, for added exposure.

Kaleidoscope Friends

Through My Friend’s Eyes

Through My Friend’s Eyes

Both Peach Heart  and Teal Opus have been added to friend Owl's great site Through My Friend's Eyes.  This also links the images in the collection to Twitter for more exposure.  If you click on the title, it will bring you to the site where you can view these images and others.  A very lovely collection of abstract and kaleidoscope images.

Can you guess what they were derived from?

New Year Message - A Friendly Reminder

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