Gallery: A Science Experiment From Your Childhood, Turned Into Gorgeous Photographs
Image: Caleb Charland01Two Lamps
Caleb Charland's *Back to Light* series takes the principles of your middle school potato battery experiment and turns it into art.
Image: Caleb Charland02Fruit Battery Solar System
He uses fruits and vegetables to power LEDs.
Image: Caleb Charland03Mellon Battery with Skull
Each LED takes about 3.5 watts, which is the equivalent of about 10 apples.
Image: Caleb Charland04Apple Tree with Chandelier Nettie Fox Farm Newburgh Maine
Using long-exposure photography he intensifies the light.
Image: Caleb Charland05Coin Battery
The coin battery is another example of an experiment turned art.
Image: Caleb Charland06Apple Lamp
Charland works with a basic tool kit—a spool of bell wire, his connectors which are galvanized nail wrapped with a copper wire and his selected fruit.
Image: Caleb Charland07Battery with Hanging Apples
“Each of those clusters you see is essentially a circuit powering an LED,” he explains.
