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Beautiful images...sort of like the vintage zeppelin airships...I even get a sense of the smooth gliding motion! 1) How did you get so much of these elongated protozoans in near to same plane of focus...terrific images. Are these a collection of 'stiched images' assembled into these final images? 2)...

Hello again...consider a nice little glass tray with plants by your microscope...flush the slide contents into this habitat...rather than 'paper wipe/ destruction' of keenly charming specimens. all the best, and again thanks for this encounter 'with a bear'...that you here forum share! charlie guevara

thanks, KD, for this shared meiofauna encounter. Freshwater collected, or marine sample? I can't be sure, but the initial sequence suggests irritation/panic..compared to latter images. I know turtles on their backs thrash four limbs with a pattern which get's them right side up...it's a predictable ...

Thank you, OP, for posting this question. Thank you, eiman , for giving the sense that Oliver informed you back in 2017 that his other important microscopy projects demanded his available energies. I salute Oliver Kim as an educator, a man with young family, and the founder of this world-wide nexus ...

Hi Matt09 and all....terrific thread, thank you all. I dug out my boxed Olympus CK with it's trinoc nosepiece hosting: 4/ 0.10, with red band marking, 10/ 0.25, orange color band marking, C20/ 0.40/ 1.20 specs on barrel, yellow color band marking. Thanks to a kind forum poster into this thread...I s...

Hi jb89, your relected-light 'round robin' group activity would be an excellent forum thread! My basic questions so far are: 1) what magnification objective are you depicting in this posts first image? 2) what is the working distance between objective and the target substraight? 3) May we see a pic ...

Wonderful link, thanks 75RR. Fig.4 depicts oil-inclusions in perhaps 29 diatom species...for me this eye-candy! Anecdotaly...I never had specific desire to pursue the matter: in my fingerlakes/US local...abundant oil-inclusion vesicles are a strongly 'winter season manefestation' I obsrve in winter ...

Hello and welcome to a great community which Oliver Kim has developed. I urge you to obtain a low cost: micrometer measurement slide...and a micrometer reticule eyepiece...many low cost. You need a Plan achro 100X oil objective to comfortably measure your target spore dimensions...these too are avai...

Only, only if you feel it safe to do...get down to your water site...crack the ice with a shovel, a hammer, your boot...and collect a few samples from under the ice. Marvelous winter aquatic microscopy is out there. Charlie guevara

Great bear encounter, thanks 'WhyMe'. Your video works for me, and a wonderful water bear resource 75RR gave us with his link! My recent bear encounters last week from frozen outdoor waters...same dark brown compacted mass in my bears gut...were your bears winter/outdoor collected, WhyMe? Charlie Gu...

Welcome, Kalie, and happy springtime'20. Charlie Guevara, fingerlakes/US

Thank you, thank you, Michael G for this worldview posting ...microscopy world views indeed. Figure #3 for me is so profound, with current microscopy level X-ray images, 3D computed image 'microscopy' contrasting past foram-protist shell thickness, with current times shell thickness...we inhale our ...

Thoughtful and profound microscopy observations with your B/W image captures spark my my reaction, thank you hkv. It has always given me pause at how with 'blasts of transmitted illumination'...a sample wet mount slide prep is oh so unnaturally visualized. I toyed with 'night vision' device to see i...

Fantastc encounters, Dawid, you certainly worked you phones camera features with excelleance, thank you. The water bear appeals to me as our human-scale companion animal family members, but the elegance of the diatoms, and the intricate structures in the protozoan are microscopy treats for me. That ...

Thanks Saul for these beautiful stacked images of marine radiolarian 'shells'. I love your crediting : Diatom LAB/ Stefano Barone for the source of this radiolarian prepared slide. I too have purchased prepared radiolarian slides, and diatom slides from : Diatom Lab/ Stefano Bruno, I am quite please...

Thanks for these beautiful results, Wes. Was that first image a ciliate, and was that protozoan still active ( as in a gentle vital strain treatment with Janus Green)? It would be good to know how long you exposed these pond organisms to your dilute stain ( approx. that is), before these stain effec...

Hi high plains sailor, I find our PM system has a dreadful aspect...I did not notice it at first. Folks who send you a PM can actually delete their PM to you..after you received the PM..I do not like this feature of forum PM system! Charlie guevara

Thanks again Malphi, for the excellent spotlight on that vintage text: "Through Magic Glasses". Microscopy offers enjoyment in the texts as we all progressed on from Anton L. of Delft/Netherlands...we can pursue so much enrichment of our world views with microscopy, and forum microscopy as Oliver Ki...

Hi, redflanker..the hydras by habit...feed at or near waters surface...in less than 2.53 cm deep ditch/ rut waters. But I crudely scooped my collection samples..so I did not know where these hydras were living. Hydras are quite mobile..so they perhaps go to different areas of shallow ditch-waters..a...

Thanks, Michael G./ Malpi for your wonderful sharing of a 'founding text for you as a child' : " Through Magic Glasses"/ Ms. Arabella B. Buckley. I am eager to encounter and read this suggested text you treated us to images of. Thanks, M.G. for your pleasure with doggie and my recent microscopy fiel...

Happy thanks giving day to all, Charlie guevara

This 1880 London, UK text is in a series of natural history books for children. A microscopy treat for all ages! Aspects of Oliver's world wide microscopy forum carry on the pursuits advocated by this 1880 gem of a text. Charlie Guevara, finger lakes/US

The near mono-culture ( certainly fair to call it an algal bloom) of one species of Spirogyra, the notable sprinkle of one species of large desmid within the filamentous algal bloom such charming hues of deep green and then the slow writhing/undulating Euglena species with their brick-red eye spots....

These tractor rut collected Euglena species are loaded with food store paramylum bodies, it's 11/19..no show of flagelae, extreme writhing/ 'euglenoid motions' hamper in focus total organism images. The writhing, spiral motions, the waves of bulges progressing along the Euglena's body lengths a plea...

Hi Bob, our son had two pet shop bought hedgehogs ( same species as yours I sense), great pets for years. They love meal worms/ adult beetles of these meal worms. They constantly lick their spines to insure an irritant of their saliva coats the points of their spines. They enjoy being handled and do...

So here we have it forum folks..what to do about this irksome senior poster...hmmm. all the best, Charlie Guevara who supports free speech...but forum manners and seniors not lapsing off their needed cognition-meds.

...regarding temp-ban/ total ban of permission to forum post..IMHO this approaches mind control/ free speech suppression...a very tough call..leave this to Oliver Kim, IMHO. A senior gent from Texas...suggested my formal occupational service sub-par, he went on to demean me ...all in his intrusion i...

I sense the: ! button works if utilized. Regarding a recent spam post to forum: 'ammo directory', good forum folk played with this spam intrusion with wit and glee, no use of the : ! flag tool I was tempted to enter in the fun by comments on need for better 'electron-guns' for our areas SEM units. R...

Hi Chris , I totally agree with our tight working distance / high magnification objectives, there is a sweet spot amount of sample fluid+ MC...to keep the slide/sample film/coverslip sandwich at very thin thickness. Often in wetmount slides, the fluid 'moats up' all around the cover slip border zone...

Thanks, mintakax, for a great encounter..is the illumination method a type of phase-contrast? Please speak a bit on this illumination method you used. thanls, Charlie guevara