Hi Guys, Is that Lacrymaria in the background of the inset? Good eye, Ken! I'm pretty sure it's Litonotus. (I made that mistake once already in another picture I posted.) Steve... the flash (Vivitar 283) was probably set at about -2 or -3. This would make the effective exposure time (flash duration)...

Ken,

I think "unidentified ciliate" is to microscopy, as "LBJ" (little- brown-job) is to bird-watching.

I finally broke down and ordered some good books to help me figure out what all is racing around under the cover glass! It'll probably only confuse me more.

Ken, It is interesting when that occurs. I don't always react fast enough, or get them both adequately in focus, but you got it in this shot. "Size" is one of the things that is often hard to judge in a photomicrograph unless you are quite familiar with the subject. I keep thinking it would be good ...

Graham,

Cute indeed!

It makes me think of the creatures that Pixar Studio "computer animated" for their movie like "It's a Bug's Life"

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/3light.jpg This (rather large) ciliate was moving around rather slowly so I decided to try to photograph it with several lightiing variations to see which gave the most interesting representation. It seemed a good comparison so I grouped them together. (Sorry...

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/IMG_1361_3.jpg This cooperative stentor (inset photo) gave me time to get out the immersion oil and take a close look at it's cilia with the 100X objective. 100X objective, 2.5X photoeyepiece, Canon 10D. Oblique brightfield with electronic flash. (Large photo...

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/warbon.jpg This Decorated Warbonnet (Chirolophis decoratus) is poking it's head up out of the coralline algae covered rocks it calls home. While the eye is most interesting to me, the big lips and frilly cirra growing on top it's head are pretty cool too! It ...

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/IMG_8743.jpg I was just fooling around trying to make a new Rheinberg filter for a low power condenser. Looking straight down on this yellow jacket head, only about two rows of eye facets came into focus. Later, as I was going through a bunch of images on the...

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/IMG_7693.jpg This heliozoan was photographed using Rheinberg illumination. The filter was moved slightly off center to let a bit of "white" light spill into the upper right of the picture to give an effect of light entering the water's surface. I liked the se...

About time Graham! You've got to quit working so hard and post some more new images up here. :D Very nice. Shaped sort of like the insect egg version of Coleps (or maybe corn on the cobb) Really good job on combining the images. Initially I did not scroll down and see that multiple images were used,...

Hi Steve, Ken I used the 10D for about a year before I bought a scope. It was obvious from the first pictures I took with it (before the microscope) that some unsharp masking was absolutely necessary. In fact, I was initially alarmed how "soft" the images looked at the default parameter settings. Bu...

Ken, I think these are Urocentrum turbo. See: http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Ciliophora/Urocentrum/sp_1c.html And check out Tom Webster's videos. I think he had a pretty good one of these guys in action. You did really well stopping the action, these guys really move. Did you notice any tha...

Steve, Afraid I can't help you out. Seems I rely on others to identify half the things I see! Sounds like you already have some good reference material, and you may have already visited this site, but if not take a look here: http://microscope.mbl.edu/scripts/microscope.php?func=imgDetail&imageID=11...

Ken,

Certainly a master of camouflage. I've looked at this a couple times now... and I'll just have to take your word for it

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/IMG_8456.jpg This view of the leg of a yellow jacket shows the tarsi, and the claw and arolium at the end of the leg. 4X objective, 2.5X photo-eyepiece, Canon 10D. Rheinberg Illumination. There will probably be more yellow jacket shots to come. They built a n...