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Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:36 am
by charlie g
Yes, yes...time at years end for cheer, respect, and best wishes for a good year ahead..to all, and to this forums microscopists, and visitors.

Fondly to all our community, Charlie Guevara, finger lakes/US

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:39 am
by charlie g
Yes, yes...peace and good health for all...including our essential neighbor protists, and meiofauna. Charlie guevara

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 12:58 pm
by zzffnn
Thank you, Charlie G, happy holidays to you as well!

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:57 pm
by Crater Eddie
Cheers!
CE

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 5:55 pm
by billbillt
Merry Christmas to all here...

Great and interesting photos of an interesting subject..

BillT

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:14 pm
by einman
Yes Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to all. It would be nice one day to meet everyone in person. We should make that a goal!

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:45 pm
by charlie g
Hear, hear, einman! Charlie guevara

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:17 pm
by JimT
Charlie, what obj. did you use for those images? :D

Yes, Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays to all.
It would be nice one day to meet everyone in person. We should make that a goal!
OK my house mid June.

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:32 am
by charlie g
Actually, Jim T, the first image depicts my disappointment with a : Nikon Plan 2X objective with dark field contrast...the algae, desmid protist is a planktonic form of: Staurastrum desmids...collected from my (still in the works due cost of this err hobby project) artificial mesocosm pond of area species.

If I adhered to better slide preparation...I would have made a wet mount slide prep with very shallow water colum under the cover slip...perhaps then more of this dark field image capture would be in better focus. But though my 2X plan objective is a must for my observation protocols...the image captures with my shallow skills..leave outside area dismally out of focus.

My good doggie image captures suggest the world I normally have minds eye view of...yes, yes I still miss so much of of what is reality...do you?!! A winter 'mountain dog' with a closed mouth, and with non-melting snow literally on it's nose..with eyes slightly closed..indicators of the ambient very cold air at that time! Snow crystals on the meadow blanket which prismatically refract gem colors also are indicators of very cold ambient air conditions.

The sequence of our garden bird bath is actually ominous...the snow pillowed bird bath then followed after only a week with the thaw which I imaged with the Christmas ornaments...this oscillation of sub-zero F...then temps above 36 F..it's a 'new normal'..quite upsrtting to have insect activities in December! Charlie Guevara

BTW I will sample the now thawed bird-bath nitches.

Re: Merry and healthy microscopy season holiday cheer!

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:00 pm
by hkv
Merry Christmas to all and let's make 2018 a great year of sharing in the forum!