Forgive me for blowing my own trumpet but ... well I'm really pleased with these photos (he says preening himself). I think they are my best attempt yet and just what I needed follow a week of disappointing results.
I used the technique suggested by CK (within PeglegOS's posting "Water Critter's Technique") of slowly removing water from under the coverslip until the subject is imobilised but still alive and natural looking. As far as I know the animal was still alive when I washed the slide off.
Pic1 was taken with the 20X achro objective and the foot section(pic3) was taken with the 40X. The original images were 3264 x 2448 pixels. I did get some pics with the cilia nice and sharp (but head out of focus) however the shape of the head had changed too much (through movement) and I found it impossible to convincingly stack the 2 images (even manually in Photoshop).
What I am particularly pleased with in pic1 is the amound of subtle detail showing "through" the body of the creature. Pic2 shows what I think is muscle fibre? The foot (pic3) also shows some intriguing anatomical detail - again I only wish I had an understanding of the associated physiology
.Bruce
