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Continuing the idea for creating pictures from Pol crystal shots by mirroring the source image into symmetrical end results. REALLY must thank Hobbyst46 for the suggestion to use ethanol to dissolve paracetamol - also working on other medication, in this case a painkiller containing paracetamol aspi...

amazing results - and yeah, have to agree they do look like they could have been painted by an artist.

great pics, congrats

wow, interesting capture ! I've seen something like this myself - or at least part of it. Had the appearance of a cilliate 'trapped' inside a round shell or membrane - twitching and spinning around - i got the feeling that if i watched it long enough i'd see it 'hatch'? Might be related or might not...

awesome shots - nice shapes to them, and nice colourings
did any have the amoeba inside? i was lucky enough to find one with the amoeba still inside it the other night but i don't find many like that for some reason.

...Basically, in the absence of proper lab skills to make crystal POL images... May I suggest an easy crystal POL experiment that requires neither lab skill nor special tools. Take a paracetamol drug capsule or pill (Tylenol or any other brand name). If a capsule, open it and pour the powder into a...

a plus 1 for the 'used' side - i saw a leitz Plan Apo 25x objective for £60 on ebay today :P this kind of bargain optic sways it in my opinion - i did have the same question as you when i first started recently, and am glad i listened to the folks on here and bought an older scope. For photography i...

cheers guys :) it works better with some images than others - i added a few more to my flickr page from that same slide - i did like the grey and stony effect that it has. Although admittedly many of them weren't great by themselves, hence the photoshop! haha :D MicroBob - yeah that pretty much nail...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1966/44234230934_dbffffe549_k.jpg Polarised crystal abstract 1 by Jay Bird , on Flickr Just something i've been messing around with. Basically, in the absence of proper lab skills to make crystal POL images, i bodged together a slide and took a different approach to g...

Skillful work, Aenima. You should be proud! I, too, am guilty of ebay insect scavenging! Well worth it! The detail in the hairs on the hind tarsus is very nice. p.s. I am now following you on flickr... do you have 2 flickr accounts? Thanks guys - much appreciated. :) pretty impressed with that 'Ext...

Beautiful. Did you do any post processing or is the pic basically a raw image? Yeah, i did some clean-up in post-processing - there were some missing areas of the pano, as well as a lot of dust on the sensor - also the background was uneven from using auto white balance and some issues with lightin...

hehe cheers - it was a little bit too ambitious for my skill level to try a panorama that size and detail - so many mistakes and glitches to be zooming in like that, but i did learn a few things and hopefully next time can compromise with a smaller project, but one that's done better. That Extrazoom...

thanks guys

just trying a link to a larger image via extrazoom - even 8000 pixels wide its only part of it's size - the full image is just over a gig


http://extrazoom.com/image-100082.html?s=huln50x50


no idea how to use the embed options so its just a link

thanks for looking

Found this nice beetle on ebay - has missing parts (leg, antenna) sometimes I get 'A2' or 'A3' condition specimens cheaply for practicing photography.

Panorama using leitz 2.5x objective.





larger image link https://flic.kr/p/Pek6zy

thanks SunshineLW - great links and info. Yeah, I wasn't really sure about the entamoeba - it was just the only picture that I could find via basic google search - the dark round bits seemed similar, but everything else was wrong. :) Once I had more to go by, I found many similar images and could mo...

Helpful video. :) The pseudopods are lobose (somewhat tubular, blunt-ended), and it's clearly an amoebozoan. Cuxlander's suggestion seems like a very good one! Ferry's site has a section on microcoryciids (which seem to be found in moss, and include some purplish species): https://www.arcella.nl/mi...

thats awesome - i always struggle when focus stacking transparent subjects - all the details usually blend into a mess in the final image.

Great stuff.

here is a (rather sketchy) video showing one of these 'cookie amoeba's with extended pseudopods - unfortunately the view is jiggled around quite a lot due to a curious rotifer butting in and paying very close attention to the amoeba :) apologies for the lighting and other issues - i was adjusting th...

Very nice! Looks like a promotional video for GUF! ;) hehe, yeah i am loving the GUF - i have it set up so that i can quickly switch from a 10x with the 'DIC-like' effect, to a 4x objective giving a decent dark field effect - the filter sits just right to use it in either DF or oblique mode without...

wow, great help - many thanks Bruce, for the knowledgeable info and cuxlander your suggestion does look like it matches visually, - i quickly realised i was rather out of my depth trying to identify this amoeba myself - especially just using a google search of 'amoeba' :P so it's nice to be able to ...

QAgyfLbm4QA Close up aquatic worm - i believe it is an Oligochaete but its only a vague ID - i saw someone refer to one of these as a Bristle-Worm i think? Gradient universal filter was used with 10x leitz obj, canon dslr in Eos-movie record software. Thanks for looking. :) https://youtu.be/QAgyfLb...

really nice captures

Woah, those dark field shots are really nice - DF certainly provides a very attractive result with those diatoms.

Pls. keep on sharing this nice videos :-) thank you ImperatorRex - i certainly have plenty of video footage, its not all as good and interesting as the Stentor division though :P I tend to record video when i have a vague plan to try and identify the subject later - but don't get around to processi...

thanks 75RR, i am forging ahead with that link, although it's unfamiliar territory for me - i don't fully understand a lot of the technical terms, so have to go with the images and hope to stumble onto a match visually. :) I will sort out some video footage once i get onto my laptop - might be somet...

And I use liquid glycerine because its diffraction index is 1.47 while the water is 1.33 Cordialement seb thanks! :) i thought at first it might have been used to slow critters down, but i noticed it used on a non-moving subject and realised my theory was wrong :P i assume the diffraction index of ...

Hi, Wondering what this type of amoeba is, if it IS an amoeba? I am seeing a lot of them, mostly in my moss and rainwater samples - when I google 'amoeba' I can only find images of the standard shapeless type that seems made of oozing liquid, but these seem to be more solid - I know they're not, but...

wow really nice - the vorticella{?} shot is my fave, coz I like seeing those 'coiled spring' shapes when they're contracted.

cheers fellas :) I think the cell division and reproduction process of these Cilliates and other micro critters is one of the highlights of owning a microscope - if I ever catch it happening - although I don't always recognise it - I try to follow it {and record if possible) to the end. I have captu...

As per the title really - I think it was an awesome thing to have witnessed, and even better to have recorded it. You guys have likely seen it quite a few times over the years, but for me this is a first. :geek: :D G8-iJrWh-CU best watched in high quality as the compression was pretty drastic. link ...

those are awesome images - what do you use the glycerin for, if you don't mind me asking? i keep seeing glycerin mentioned but don't know what it's used for

That first image is excellent btw.