As part of the testing and refinement stage of my bacterial photography process, I decided to pay homage to the subject matter that helped me to come up with the idea in the first place, dinosaurs. The two images below are visual evidence of the evolution of my bacterial art.

Saphlosaurus Rex, 2008, Staph aureus

Serratiasaurus, 2012, Serratia marcescens

The first image, Staphlosaurus, was a bacterial “drawing” I did just for fun back when I was working in the microbiology lab. It simple served as a way to entertain myself and coworkers during a mundane laboratory test. The second image, Serratiasaurus, has played a role in the development of “bacteriography”, my new form of photography. Like many people, as a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I just never quite outgrew that phase and probably never will. So, I found it only appropriate that one of my first images grown in bacteria be of a dinosaur. I mean really, what’s cooler than a dinosaur grown in bacteria…nothing! I figure if I can’t bring them back to life why not bring them back with life.