Micrasterias - what a beautiful plant and a very nice image.

Here's one from my garden pond.

Projectina Microscope
Ocular: x10 phot
Objective: x10 achromat
DG illumination: wheelstop
Camera: Canon Powershot S50

I have now put a gallery of Collotheca pictures on my website. You can access the gallery directly, without navigating the rest of the site, at:

http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/ani ... index1.htm

Let me know what you think...

Every sample from every place seems to hold a few surprises - keep collecting at every opportunity!

http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/animalcules/collotheca006.jpg Looking for some Vorticella to try out darkground on, I took some filamentous algae from the garden pond. It was full of these tube dwelling rotifers (no Vorticella !). This was taken with the following set-up: Projectina Microscope ...

http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/temp/colpidiumeg.jpg This is an image of Colpidium using Paintshop Pro "Topography Artistic Effect" to give the illusion of embossing with oblique illumination. The original image details are: Watson Bactil Microscope Objective: Watson x30 parachromat Wilska phas...