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"Seaweed" from Morrison Lake with some small ciliates (possibly stentor) and lots of smaller diatoms attached.
Shot taken with Olympus E-520 and Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50. The mirror of the microscope catched the cam.
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An interesting look at everyday things.
I bought a cheap USB powered Microscope and then started exploring. Some of the images were very unexpected so I thought I would post a few.
2015
Macro Holga photo of some of the collections at the St. Louis Science Center.
The collections are remnants of when the museum started at a Natural History and Science Museum. They are now stored in a non-public site and used occasionally for displays.
Phase contrast microscopy is a technically fairly easy trick to increase the contrast of the image. It was invented by a Dutch guy, Frits Zernike, who earned a Nobel prize for it. Funny, because another Dutch guy, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, invented the microscope! I remain to this day clueless on how to reproduce the rings in bricks... So no rings, but it does slide!