They say beauty is only skin deep – but Hugh Turvey’s x-rays of flowers show they are captivating through and through. Hugh, who trained as a designer / art director before studying photography Gered Mankowitz, first used X-rays in 1996 to photograph a human skull as a favour to a musician friend who needed an image for an album cover.
He has since used the technique to produce a series of coloured x-rays of everyday objects.
A row of hyacinths at various stages of development and flowering
Hugh, 39, has been fascinated since childhood with getting underneath the surface of things. He said: “I’m driven by my curiosity. It’s about discovering the world around us. As a kid I would take things apart to see what was inside and how they worked. I have an insane curiosity for how things work. X-ray gives me a way to get that insight and turn it into art”
A dozen roses
Arum lilies
Honesty seed pods
Anthurium
Elderflower
A coloured X-ray of a rose
A coloured X-ray of a lily
Thistles
A close-up of an X-ray of a thistle flower
Stargazer lilies
An orchid (Stanhopea hasselvoliana)
Seaweed 
Tulips
A rose
Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-mist) seed capsules
Agapanthus
Lisianthus flowers 
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Tout simplement beau.
Comme quoi, avec l’imagination et quelques talents artisiques on peut sublimer des choses banales de la vie de tous les jours.
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WONDERFUL PIECES!!!
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Just Beautiful!
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how about doing a venus flytrap? (complete with fly)
Absolutely beautiful. As a photographer and a teacher with a specific interest in flora I find these images captivating. I’d love to discuss, possibly use in a project.
Regards
Tony Walsh
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Really beautiful – they make the ‘every day’ seem etheral. Maybe this is something we all need to consider in our ‘every day’ lives….??
Enjoy!
Fiona
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The detail is just amazing, almost a scientific insight into everyday flora – but in a beautiful artistic way… the technique is brilliant and would love to know what other medium has been imaged in the past too?
All the best
Richard
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These are really amazing. Like the guy above me said, the detail and clarity is amazing. Fantastic!
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These are so amazingly beautiful!! Did you show some of your work at Tower Hill Botanicals in Boylston, MA? I have seen something like this there and was just thrilled with that too!
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Very creative and a delight to the senses.
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Fantastic shots, great idea: the tulips are the best!
Greetings from Germany – moni
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Might try feeding the plants a special diet high in iron, etc. Would highlight the veins. Possibly sprinkle a fine metal dust on the plants as well.
Other possible subjects: tree leaves, celery, watermellon, a bee, bettle, butterfly, or worm on the flower, pees (flowers and pods), peanuts grown in loamy soil (for better x-ray penatration. If that works… an ant farm. Getting a little far a field). Advacoto (sp?), artichoke, etc.
Simply wonderful – you really should publish these in a book – it would be a fantastic gift.
great share what looking for something like that since so long !
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Wow That was excellent.Great idea…
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Other possible subjects: tree leaves, celery, watermellon, a bee, bettle, butterfly, or worm on the flower, pees (flowers and pods), peanuts grown in loamy soil (for better x-ray penatration. If that works… an ant farm. Getting a little far a field). Advacoto (sp?), artichoke, etc.
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