Ted Kinsman is a scientific photographer that specializes in creating images for books, magazines, and television. His particular areas of interest are in x-ray radiography, high-speed photography, Scanning electron microscopy, and time-lapse cinematography. His work has appeared in numerous books and magazines ranging from Discover Magazine to Forbes. Recently his work has appeared on Gray's Anatomy and CSI New York. In addition to running 
B.N. (Bobbie) Sullivan has a strong affinity for the sea and everything in it. She first learned to dive in 1970 and has since logged thousands of dives. A wish to document the marine life she encountered prompted her to learn underwater photography more than 20 years ago. More recently, she began to write about the marine life she has photographed. A research psychologist by profession, she approaches her subject matter with the mindset of a scientist, but targets her writing to a general readership in whom she hopes to foster an appreciation for the ocean and its inhabitants.
B Jefferson Bolender is Training Coordinator of the State of Arizona's
program for disability awareness and assistive technology. Through
her travels she always has a camera at hand to photograph everything
from people to technology and nature. As a teacher of elementary
education, special education and art, her interests include a wide
array of subject matter with an emphasis on documentation with an
artist's eye.
Steve Jurvetson enjoys rocketry and photography and especially the pursuit of both in the Black Rock Desert. Some action photos and video links can be found 
Alex Wild is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he works on the molecular phylogenetics of various groups of insects. He is also a part-time photographer whose images appear in such venues as Ranger Rick, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, and even ScienceBlogs.
Introducing a month long exploration of natural wonders seen by a woman who always has a camera on hand. We begin exploring with the wonders of minerals.
"Velvet Beauty" is a magnificent collector's specimen from Bisbee, Arizona. This museum-quality piece of malachite and azurite was available for purchase at a rock and gem show for a mere $25,000. See a higher resolution image here.
A titanium wash over a piece of quartz crystal is heat-treated to produce great color and flash. Seen on display with a vendor at the world-famous Quartzite, Arizona Rock and Gems show. Higher resolution image here.
Most of my rockhounding these days is manifested in collecting images of great rock and minerals, such as this amazing specimen of pyrite crusted on the bevel edges of these cubes of calcite from China, seen at the Tucson Rock and Gem Show.
Comments
They look exactly like star nebula formation photographs taken at a very close proximity …
… and all 3 mug shits look a bit alien looking …
... ... B Jefferson Bolender even has a tripod attachment - can you get any more Martian?
Posted by: Wallace Turner | June 29, 2009 7:19 PM
ibviously (sic) I'm typing in the dark here on an old fashioned macbook without the lightly up keys ...
The reference to mug-shots was changed by MS Orifice without any due diligence on my part.
Posted by: Wallace turner | June 29, 2009 7:35 PM
At least I didn't make this mistake in Greg Laden's blog (which is where I thought I was commenting) ...
Posted by: wallace turner | June 29, 2009 7:41 PM
You made me laugh, Wallace! I am in an alien landscape for sure in that "mug shot". It is the Imperial Sand Dunes in southwestern California. You comment on my tripod - ironically, most of the images I will be sharing were shot handheld with point and shoot cameras.
Posted by: cobalt123 | June 29, 2009 10:00 PM
Perhaps if anyone wonders about my nick of cobalt123, I am known on flickr.com as both cobalt and cobalt123. I encourage anyone who likes the photos I am posting to look at them in the very large view there.
Posted by: cobalt123 | June 29, 2009 10:50 PM
Those are gorgeous!
Posted by: Lilian Nattel | June 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Wonderful!
Posted by: Skeptigal | July 4, 2009 4:55 PM
Gorgeous! wow... loving that cobalt blue
Posted by: jurvetson | July 11, 2009 1:26 PM