Gallery of Photos

Image is a powerful way to gain information and to reach new levels of growth and insight.

In the sciences, images are also viewed as important tools for learning: "Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. You can do science without graphics, but it's very difficult to communicate it in the absence of pictures. Indeed, some insights can only be made widely comprehensible as images. How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares [...] if they had been described soley in words?   [...] scores of other indespensible concepts exist chiefly as images."   -- Curt Suplee, Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation.  Monica Bradford, Executive Editor of Science. 

The images that follow, and all the pictures on this web site, were taken by the author, Joyce Hawkes, unless otherwise noted.

A healthy cell with a large 'information center" or nucleus that contains DNA, the codes of life

A sick cell: one that is already dissolving and recylcing its molecular structures for new cells to use

A healthy cell from the eye of a fish: the dark cones are the membranes that contain an enzyme that converts incoming light into electrochemical messages that the brain can perceive as images. To the left of the cone of membranes, and still inside one single cell, are dark spheres, the power packs (mitochondria)of this cell.

The same type of cell as on the left but from a sick eye. Note that the power packs, the mitochondria, have sickened first and have virtually dissolved, leaving only a thin membrane around what was a functioning mitochondrion.

Images as seen through a type of electron microscope that looks inside of cells

Observe a cell.

See the power of creation.

See divine design.

See immense wisdom.

See the heart of it all.

                                          -- Joyce Hawkes