I love your videos. The oblique polarised light is very effective and the phase contrast shows great detail.

David

Thanks for the comments

Thanks Carlos.

Here is another composition of what's in the birdbath at the moment.

40X Objective DIC, stacked, composition. Relative size is correct.

Really beautiful images.

I took a sample of water from the bird bath and along with the usual hoards of Haematococcus pluvialis there were a lot of small Amoeba. Haematococcus pluvialis is around 55 microns across and the Amoeba were around 75 microns long. I don't know if they would eat a whole H. pulvaris but they look li...

Beautiful photos.

Good work. I think the moss images are very nice.

Thanks for the comments.

David

Very interesting, I particularly like the flourescence image.

Here are some grains of red sand from the Namibian desert. It's mostly quartz that has a fine coating of "Hematite", a red oxide of iron. You can see thicker areas of the iron oxide in the crevices on the grains. I used incident light and low intensity transmitted cross polarised light. It's a stack...

outstanding images!

Very creative and a great result.

What a great result! Super image.

Stunning images, beautifully lit.

Thanks for the comments. Hi Chris, The spores are roughly around 8 or 9 microns for the Inocybe spore (they are not all depicted at the same scale) to around 18 microns for the largest of the Panaeolus spores ( Panaeolus semiovatus ). The Entoloma darkfield was a 40X objective rather than the 100X. ...