This image is an exhibition of found pieces of driftwood. In a separate document, there are educated inferences on their native origins, possible paths of travel, and species. While my original plan was to also record the ages of the wood samples, I realized that it would be of my best interest to focus on categorizing them without the age since I lacked an adequate carbon dating kit. The samples were gathered at a shore of the Mobile Bay in Fairhope. I intended to execute a local study in New Orleans, but considering the water levels of the Mississippi, there wouldn’t be a significant abundance of wood—if not, any.
Following the accumulation of the samples, the process of analysis relied on a microscope, knife, and a Canon EOS 700D/Rebel T5i DSLR. The first few layers of wood were cut to expose the internal layers. These areas were then placed under the microscope, of which the samples were recorded using a camera. Naked eye images were also taken along with the microscope images in order to identify which images were affiliated with each other.
A table of the samples was created using Adobe Photoshop and the samples were identified in a document.