This gallery
was created to all those who may have special interest for the Woods,
both the outside and the inside wood. A large number of photos and
photomicrographs has been made available for your utilization. The
objective is to provide an overview on the microscopy of the most
common commercial woods in Brazil. The aim of this section is scientific
and educational. Through the pictures, anyone may become aware of
some morphologic and artistic details created by Nature in the wooden
plants. This collection will be soon complemented by another photo
gallery in this website - Fibers & Fibers ,
under construction.
The collection was built along my career as student, professor, educator and
forest science researcher. Many friends have provided help to me in this task.
Thanks to them, this quality and quantity were achieved. For this reason, I'd
like to express my most sincere thanks to them. Everything started during my
early times as high school student in the Instituto de Educação
Experimental de Jundiaí. At that time, I've started to collect small
pieces and blocks of woods. In the high school, I had the opportunity to have
had excellent classes in Botany, with professor Nassir Alves. After that, when
student in agronomy at the E.S.A. "Luiz de Queiroz", I had a training
experience in wood anatomy with professor Clóvis Ferraz de Oliveira
Santos. In the Department of Botany of that college, I could have my first
experiences on wood microscopy and on the art of photomicrography. When graduate
student, I had the privilege to study and to work under great teachers: at
USP, with my friend João Perez Chimelo and in the State University of
New York in Syracuse, with professor Carl de Zeeuw. Because my passion for
trees, woods and fibers, my dear uncle Luiz Bochetti, who was an excellent
carpenter, gave me as a gift, an enormous collection of wood blocks, with a
first to nothing variety. Several of these woods were sliced to microscopy.
During my short time as professor at the E.S.A. "Luiz de Queiroz",
I had under my guidance an excellent student and trainee: Cristina de Jesus
Caldeira. She was responsible for taking several pictures present in this collection,
and many more in the next photo gallery - Fibers & Fibers. More recently,
in my professional life in several pulp & paper companies and universities,
I received help from several friends. They have provided me photos, samples
and support to improve the collection. I'd like to register the names of Celívio
Heidrich, Sérgio Menochelli, Douglas Domingues, Carmen Borges, Geraldo
Zenid, and Verônica Angyallossi. However, this gallery was made possible
thanks to the help received from the Brazilian Technical Association of Pulp
and Paper - ABTCP. Until recently, the collection was completely in the format
of slides, an out-of-date technology. The scanning and digitalization was provided
by ABTCP through the careful work coming from James Hiratsuka and Juliana Tiemi
Sugawara. Thanks also to my daughter Alessandra. As the webmaster of this home
page, she patiently have converted the photos to HTML, completing this task
which started more than 40 years ago.
To you all my friends, my special thanks.
Celso Foelkel
The Photo Gallery - Wood Anatomy Sceneries
Gallery of Images and Photos in maintenance - Thanks for your understanding