Western lowland gorilla Kijivu holds her newborn baby at the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic. (Photo by Isifa/Getty Images)

Do tears of joy look the same as ones of woe—or ones from chopping onions? In “The Topography of Tears,” the Los Angeles-based photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher explores the physical terrain of one hundred tears emitted during a range of emotional states and physical reactions. Using a Zeiss microscope with an attached digital camera, she captures the composition of tears enclosed in glass slides, magnified between 10x and 40x. “There are many factors that determine the look of each tear image, including the viscosity of the tear, the chemistry of the weeper, the settings of the microscope, and the way I process the images afterwards,” she says.

Artist Amber Wheeler of Minneapolis, Minn., has given her 2-month-old boy just that. All she used was some Photoshop and well-timed photos. Using simple black lines – much like the ones in this series of cat Instagram portraits – Wheeler transformed her son into an astronaut, a superhero, and a cowboy without spending one dollar on costumes.

Megan McKenna, Amber Turner and Yazmin Oukhellou sightings at Aristocats nightclub Mayfair on March 30, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Goff Photos)

Joanne the Scammer (L) and model Amber Rose attend the Amber Rose SlutWalk 2016 at Pershing Square on October 1, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/FilmMagic)

American media personality and socialite Kylie Jenner in the second decade of December 2024 cuddles up to mom Kris in a sweet pic. (Photo by kyliejenner/Instagram)

A girl calls to her mom as she stands near a dead whale on the shore Monday morning, April 25, 2016, on the cobblestone beach at Lower Trestles on San Onofre State Beach, just south of San Clemente, Calif. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP Photo)

Mom dressed as Santa and a boy dressed as Santa's helper posing under the water in the pool on December 15, 2016 in Odessa, Ukraine. (Photo by Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Images)