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One of my failed attempts at dark field microscope photography. There's a tardigrade there in the center. The focus just didn't land where I wanted it. My old Bausch and Lomb microscope isn't really made for dark field photography either.
Still, as a composition, it is interesting. Sometimes the sum of the parts add up to something better when the parts stink.
Source: E. C. Bolles Collection of Microscope Slides, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Image id: SDNHM_Microscope_Slides_019
Using a digital microscope connected to a laptop for identifying fly larvae (maggots) recovered from a simulated crime scene.
I blogged about this exhibit at my Invertebrate Diaries blog: Insect Detectives (my other blog posts about Pestival).
The X and Y motor sleds are identical, except for the direction the motor mounts. Note how the side pieces go in opposite directions.
Some plant pollen from my garden, captured by pointing an Ixus V3 at the lens of an antique microscope. The camera was angled to maximize chromatic abberation from the microscope lens, which provides all the coloring.
Source: E. C. Bolles Collection of Microscope Slides, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Image id: SDNHM_Microscope_Slides_004
A look inside a microscope at Otherworld Ohio near Columbus, Ohio. See www.otherworld.com/main/home-ohio