Specimens: Three (Trinity Series) Image Gallery

This collection was created by Phillip Hopper, Professor of Communication and Media, at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Specimens project has always been about making the unseen or the difficult to see visible. The transformation of natural forms, especially at the beginning and end of life is also a theme. Seed pods and egg casings hold nascent plants and animals. Wildflowers dry and leave skeletal structures. Finally the project is a kind of eulogy for latent image analog photography where negatives and positives were the key to reproduction. A set of three images were created for each specimen.

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01a. Channeled Welk - Busycotypus canaliculatus - egg casings [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three blue curvy and segmented vertical strings on a white background.

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01b. Channeled Welk - Busycotypus canaliculatus - egg casings [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three yellow curvy and segmented vertical strings on a white background.

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02a. Milkweed - Asclepias - seed pods [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three blue and gray vertical oval pods on a white background.

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02b. Milkweed - Asclepias - seed pods [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three yellow and gray vertical oval pods on a black background.

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03a. American Sweetgum - Liquidambar styraciflua - fruit and seeds [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three blue spiney spheres on a white background.

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03b. American Sweetgum - Liquidambar styraciflua - fruit and seeds [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three yellow spiney spheres on a black background.

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04. Channeled Welk - Busycotypus canaliculatus - egg casings - a variation [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three yellow vertical curvey and segmented strings on a gray background.
05a. Milkweed - Asclepias - seed pods (a variation) [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three blue oval shaped objects with gray fluffy seeds extruding from the object on a white background.

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05b. Milkweed - Asclepias - seed pods (a variation) [photograph]

2021

Alt Text: Three yellow oval shaped objects with white fluffy seeds extruding from the object on a black background.

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