Hoping to sample the flora & fauna of a local ditch, that drains a large hillside, throughout this Winter. Chances are it will be under a lot of snow in February but I suspect it will not freeze solid.
Today's sample included a few filaments of
Spirogyra, and life this small (35 microns wide) is at the absolute limit for my current equipment: Nikon M Plan 40x SLWD objective, bellows, SLR digital camera.
Image is OK, shows the helicoid chloroplasts - no idea why one is fat!
22 frames @ about 40x, ZS PMax stack
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
