Peacock Feathers - Through a Magnifying Glass

I’ve posted about peacock feathers before. I have several vases of them around my house so they were readily available on a recent cold afternoon when I wanted a photography project. I decided to try photographing through a small magnifying class. I used both a black and white piece of acrylic for the photographic platform. The resulting images were round (the field of view of the magnifying glass. I then clipped the best portions of the resulting images for the slide show below.

It was very obvious how much of the color in peacock feathers is structural rather than pigment. The angle of light and the camera caused a quick change from drab brown to iridescent green and blue. I was pleased with the results with the magnifying glass and am anxious to try the microscope soon.