Here is a short video demonstrating the use of an Alt-Az telescope mount as a 2-axis stage for closeup photography. https://bob-o-rama.smugmug.com/Infinity-Photo-Optical-K2-SC-Long-Distance-Microscope/i-Rj7q3Zw I had built this a few years ago but had to cannibalize it. The above is "first light" te...

Thats a nice fixture and it seems to work great. ( I have a very ugly version of that and it works pretty well, mirror salvaged from a dead digital projector. ) Where did you source the mirror?

=D> wow, how did you clean the weevil? I see only one dust particle in four pictures :shock: A cheap ultrasonic cleaner (though they have doubled/tripled in price from two years ago), distilled water with a drop or two of Jet Dry Finish for about 6ixty seconds and blotted on a coffee filter to abso...

Amaizeing! But really, nice imagery and something I had not seen in that sort of detail before. Interesting. Any idea what the different stains are targeting?

Those are the type of eggs you don't want in your egg salad. I think a lot of that grain is just just inherent in the staining, there is actually a lot of structure to cytoplasm. You have some very eggciting images from this and your other recent eggsplorations.

They are very nicely composed, and well executed. If this is your second attempt, you are doing pretty well, IMO.

That is gorgeous and the comb like structure is very much unexpected. I wonder if this is growing at a fast enough rate you could observe it with a time lapse.

So is this in response to a "food this way" sort of chemical signal? Or does branching just occur, and whatever ones are successful are reinforced?

Its the photographic equivalent of "See Naples and die."

My wife is into scrap booking ( in fact at a huge scrap booking convention this weekend ) - she probabaly has 7 different ways to make this already. LOL!

( The suggestion about using collimated rear illumination is likely the best solution. ) It may also be possible to use chromakey to enable your masks to be selected more reliably. You could distinguish between the chromakey background and white-ish specular highlights from the coins edges. Also the...

Amazing, and a lot of work I imagine. Its great that you are keeping this melding of science and art alive.

Those are just awesome. I guess I get easily frustrated, but pretty much any time I try to take a picture of anything that it alive it usually tries to sting me in the eye, or waits till everything is dialed in to jump or fly away.

Honestly I never really thought too much about what was inside those things. Very interesting and nicely photographed. I'm thinking they would also make for a great timelapse subject.

Are those individual eggs, or is that like a dozen egg sacks which warrant some sort of military response?