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Back-Lighted Leaf Skeleton Black and White Close-up Maximum Print Size: 13" x 13" Photographer/Artist: Royce Bair Image Number: 0038-0408-0317-4943 License This Image Poster Art-Print Description: A detailed, photo close-up of a cottonwood tree leaf skeleton. (After a leaf falls to the ground, microbes in the soil consume the leaf's soft tissue and leave only the cellulose and lignin skeleton.) The leaf's vascular network can now easily be seen. This is a back-lighted version of photo #0038-0408-0317-3815, that is cropped even tighter to show detail. The leaves (see the 'similars' below) I've photographed here were skeletonized through natural decay, and were hand-picked from tens of thousands of leaves. Here's an article on how this process works along with links to how you can artificially skeletonize new leaves by boiling them in alcohol, followed by a soaking in NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide or lye). Here's a similar skeletonizing technique, and a third skeletonizing method. associated terms: poster, posters, art print, art prints, posters and art prints, cellulose, cottonwood, cottonwood tree, leaf, leaf skeleton, leaves, lignin, microbe, microbes, nature, network, networks, pattern, patterns, plants, royce bair, skeleton, skeletons, system, systems, textures, tissue, tree, vascular, vascular system, vein, veination, veins, venation,

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