"Needle" diatom measures ~180X10 um's and is a panorama of two images.
![Image](http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss152/jtallon2/Pano-11amp12-600X-JPEG_zpsxzfxzvnt.jpg)
"Coke bottle" diatom measuring ~65 um's. This is a new one for me.
![Image](http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss152/jtallon2/Combine-13-16-600X-JPEG_zps0nmrfo3a.jpg)
I try to find a specimen that is in a clean area of the slide and then I do some clean up in post processing.Your slides are so "clean". How do you do it? Do you kidnap it and place it on a fresh slide?