scientific imaging

Fingerprinting the Agar

The first experiment growing bacteria on the agar will be fingerprints as supposedly there is vast amount of microflora on the fingers and it will yield interesting results.  For this, I've decided to touch everything on my way to Cavendish today with my left hand and nothing with my right hand and then fingerprint both of my hands to see what happens... this should be interesting. 

This is my left hand that I touched everything with (train seats, poles, door handles, my shoe, the table, etc) and then what it looked like after I washed it with lab strength soap! 

Not an amazing result....

Scanned the film from the bacteria test on Friday and at first it doesn’t look like it worked but after looking closely at it tonight I’ve noticed that it seems to have started eating away at the film!!!  I’ve added the picture below with the part I think might be working enlarged.  Since the result is not as impressive as I was hoping for I am going to think about some other ideas to achieve a nice image using film and bacteria but keep working with this one in the mean time!  Let you know how it goes soon!