Incredible X-Ray Images Of Seashells And Fossils Captured By Photographer Bert Myers (PHOTOS)

A retired doctor with a love for photography has developed his own unique artform.

Using an X-ray machine, Bert Myers captures the breathtaking stillness of nature. The series includes shots of everything from a sea urchin to seashells and fossils of aquatic life.

An academic physician working in research, the beauty of a precision X-ray first struck Myers when he was taking images of blood vessels growing into healing wounds, according to his website.

Myers later studied under photographer and conservationist Ansel Adams and went on to create color as well as black and white X-ray images.

If you find yourself taken by Meyers photography, Nick Veasey's nature X-rays and Dutch artist Albert Koetsier's 'Jewels Of Nature' will also certainly catch your eye.

Check out a selection of Bert Myers X-ray images of seashells and fossils below.

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Comments

[TaurusRose]

06:28 PM on 02/06/2012

I wish people could learn to say something other/more than 'cool'
Cool is so banal and inadequate (and yesterday) for expressing beauty.
Or any other wondrous thing.
Why would anyone ever consider that was 'cool'?
Some say 'get a life', I say get some words.

[etherialecho]

08:03 PM on 02/04/2012

Compliments. Some people just have a nacre for that sort of thing.

[MathDem]

10:22 AM on 02/04/2012

This is incredible. You can actually see how the mathematics of the golden ratio show up in the spiral of the nautilus shell...just wow. Well done Mr. Myers.

[BlackYowe]

11:36 PM on 02/03/2012

This really made my night.

[NonPrawf]

12:06 AM on 02/03/2012

I need to get a new camera.

[TRACYBURTON]

10:33 PM on 02/02/2012

Love

[karen lyons kalmenson]

07:36 PM on 02/02/2012

stunning☻
mother nature is THE artist♥

[NER2]

06:29 PM on 02/02/2012

There is nothing "unique" about these images as the unidentified author suggests. Simply Google "X rays of flowers" or "X rays of objects" (use the "images" tab), for example, and you will see all sorts of things like this. Furthermore, I wonder about the claim that Myers "studied" under Ansel Adams. I have read every book written by Adams, and Myers is not mentioned as his associate, assistant, or student in any of them. I know of people who attended a lecture by Adams or participated in a weekend workshop taught in whole or in part by Adams and then proclaimed that they "studied" under Adams, I suppose because it sounds good. Not knowing Myers, I would never accuse him of such "resume inflation," but I would certainly like to know more about his association with Adams.

[fatherdjohnson]

05:03 PM on 02/02/2012

And even though these pictures are technically 'doctored', that is, in terms of enhanced imaging, lighting effects, and even texturing, they are still images of the indelible beauty that is creation.

They sure do beat looking at AOL/HuffPost's 'tart of the day' gallery.

[oberlinkay91]

04:09 PM on 02/02/2012

Very cool

[spnk111]

03:08 PM on 02/02/2012

As a former radiographer I appreciate these images. They are beautiful and thanks.

[Vicky Lupo McDonald]

03:00 PM on 02/02/2012

Beautiful... I love this concept and want to see more!!!!

[alsoran1]

02:25 PM on 02/02/2012

Tell me these creatures are not part of an itelligent design??

[sapperdom]

02:40 PM on 02/02/2012

They are not part of any intelligent design.

[jrsurferboy]

02:45 PM on 02/02/2012

are you sure,there not part of any design??

[filupd]

02:59 PM on 02/02/2012

Obviously, neither are you!

[Giantevilhead]

04:04 PM on 02/02/2012

r=ae^(bθ)

[AndrogynousAthiest]

02:24 PM on 02/02/2012

Cool!

[TaurusRose]

01:30 PM on 02/07/2012

No kidding.
As a musicologist, I look at much music over many many decades.
Unfortunately, I see so much musical TRASH that I keep the new stuff
from hitting my radar until they are proven to have something that lasts
more than one round.

[TaurusRose]

01:43 PM on 02/07/2012

sorry, my previous post went into the wrong thread

[Ralph Preta]

02:21 PM on 02/02/2012

it would have been nice if they had a description beneath each picture as to what they were how old etc. what ya gonna do...??? :o(

[traceymarie]

10:42 PM on 02/03/2012

try again, it tells you what they are and what they do.

[Ralph Preta]

11:06 PM on 02/03/2012

but it doesnt tell you how old they are or where their from.