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Rather out of focus, but not too much the worse for it, in a sort of Trippy way...
Ditch, Coe Fen
Fuji Superia 400
Taken with 16x Zeiss Plan achromat lens and modified brightfield setup. Zeiss photomicroscope II 1.3 NA Abbe condenser. Sample in a well slide. Diatoma vulgaris or Diatoma hiemale?
Many times a day an army of men worked hard on the sun to clean up the beach where loads of algae were left on the sand.
algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that lack true roots, stems, leaves, and flowers). More recently, most algae have been classified in the kingdom Protista or in another major group called the eukarya (or eukaryotes), which includes animals and higher plants. The algae have chlorophyll and can manufacture their own food through the process of photosynthesis. They are distributed worldwide in the sea, in freshwater, and in moist situations on land. Nearly all seaweeds are marine algae. Algae that thrive in polluted water, some of which are toxic, can overmultiply, resulting in an algal bloom and seriously unbalancing their ecosystem.
1 Knotted Wrack (Ascophylum nodosum).
2 Oar Weed (Laminaria digitata)
3 Bryozoa Sea Mat Membranipora membranacea
4 Sea Lettuce (Ulva lactua)
5 Polysiphonia lanosa,
Whitby North Yorkshire UK 28th August 2012
Algae from pond water. Photo taken with Zeiss PMII scope 16x plan objective and Canon EOS 60D camera equipped with Zeiss 47 60 10 intermediate tube and Leitz 4x projection lens. Modified brighfield. May be Closterium
Icebergs are not lifeless. They are homes to billions of tiny and not so tiny creatures, from iron bacteria to snow algae and seals.