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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.
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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).