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Challenge: Serendipity (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Reykjavik/Iceland
Date: Apr 20, 2004
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2004

Alexander Fleming is told to have left a petri dish with bacteral culture on his lab bench for few days which in meanwhile got contaminated with the funge species Penicillium notatum. When he took a look at it he realised that there where no bacterial growth in certain radius from the fungal colonies. In stead of throwing the dishes away like most would porbaly would have done he took a closer look and ended by discover one of the most widely used antibiotic of our times.
Some say that there is no such thing as accidental discovery. You just have to be ready to receive the message when they come and not dismiss things that comes out other way than you expected.

Statistics
Place: 160 out of 215
Avg (all users): 4.5057
Avg (commenters): 5.4286
Avg (participants): 4.3069
Avg (non-participants): 4.6280
Views since voting: 1083
Votes: 265
Comments: 15
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/27/2004 01:56:35 PM
Clever.
04/26/2004 03:33:45 PM
nice idea could be better implemented
04/25/2004 01:12:01 PM
i like the idea, but the picture is not really that great ... more depth of field and focus on the lemon would be better
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04/25/2004 12:43:00 AM
Very very clever. It didn't sink in at first. Nice choice of DOF. I dont think any other would have fit.
04/24/2004 10:27:34 AM
you gotta clean your fridge out more often :)
04/22/2004 09:48:20 AM
The title validates the photo, I'm not sure the image does (Unless that is penicillin in the background?) I think more emphasis should have been on the petri (?) dish.
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04/21/2004 07:37:37 PM
Nice composition. However, the meaning of this photo is probably lost on a lot of people who don' know the history of penicillin...
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04/21/2004 06:46:11 PM
Oh please stop studying and take out the trash!
04/21/2004 06:01:02 PM
I think it was bread mould not fruit mould? petri dish not obvious enough. books too flat..I like those text book pics where paper disks have been impregnated with various antibiotics and they are placed on petri dishes of growing bacteria...you see bacterial death spreading out from the disk
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04/21/2004 06:00:31 PM
I think your concept is very interesting (about Fleming's discovery) but I would like to see the lemon more in focus than the other items in the foreground. Also, I think more items that would suggest a lab would help. I do like the background color though, I like how it contrasts the yellow and blue of the fruit.
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04/21/2004 04:32:14 PM
Third visit's the charm, I guess. I'm guessing that you left the moldy whatever out of focus on purpose to show that it's discovery was "by accident". So if that's true, then the photo tells the story correctly. I've scored it with that assumption. Technically, though, they didn't have hardcover textbooks, college ruled paper, or #2 yellow pencils in the days when penicillin was discovered - so this photo is anachonistic.
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04/21/2004 01:18:21 PM
Petri dish needs to be more "present" (IMHO). Depth of field seems to attempt this but I don't think it pulls it off. Nice concept for the definition of "serendipity"
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04/21/2004 10:43:49 AM
Good sharp picture, and good POV, may I ask what that thing in the background is? Looks lika a rotten orange? is it?
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04/21/2004 08:47:13 AM
Great idea for the Serendipity subject!
04/21/2004 12:53:16 AM
The moldy lemon should have been in focus.


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