A couple of photos on a botanical theme.

[SteveSteve]

Afternoon All,

Here are a couple of photos taken with my old Lomo mic. Both were taken using the direct tube mounting my LUMIX fZ200 over the 40x objective. Both slides were in a set that I found while clearing up.

I also stacked the images. Never done that before so I jumped straight in with Zerene Stacker on Linux. I didn't fiddle with settings, just ran it as default. I think that there were 5 frames in the pollen pic and six in the fern one.

First up, a group of Lilly pollen.


Next, a fern sporangia and some spores (species unknown)


Cheers
Steve

[JimT]

Nice and stacking definitely improves DoF.

[SteveSteve]

Thanks Jim,

The structures in the second photo certainly curve up and down in the vertical plane.
I was surprised how well it worked on default settings without any input from me. I am looking forward to some crisper optics in the near future.

Cheers
Steve

[Crater Eddie]

Nice images Steve.
CE

[mrsonchus]

Hi Steve - great start! Linux - scary - takes me back a few years!
Nice pictures - keep at it - you'll progress with it a lot faster than you'd think!

[SteveSteve]

Thanks John and Eddie.

[mrsonchus]

Looking again at your 2nd picture - it's got a very good '3D quality' about it - I can 'look into it' almost, very nice effect that.
Well done.