The Onion Skin Devil

[Don Schaeffer]

Taking microscope images of onion skin is supposed to be an elementary exercise usually not worth the efforts of serious hobbyists. I found it pretty hard to do. For one thing onions make gaseous fumes which tend to fog lenses. I also found the skins difficult to gracefully cut. Anyway I got some pictures that show the range of form of the cells. I sampled various points of view. Don't laugh but I found photographing onion skins to be challenging.

https://youtu.be/Tol06VWEO-M