Veliger shells

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:43 pm

At some point in the past I had posted some of these with the live inhabitants swimming around. But with those it is hard to study the marvelous shell itself. One difficulty in appreciating these shells is trying to have appreciation for the small size since they appear not unlike much larger shells that are collected at the seashore. But each of these is only about 1/3mm (0.013 inch!) across.

Olympus BHS, 20/0.70 S Plan Apo, brightfield (slight oblique), recorded at 42X on Canon T3i sensor.

Olympus BHS, 4/0.16 S Plan Apo, darkfield, recorded at 8.2X on Canon T3i sensor.

Olympus BHS, 4/0.16 S Plan Apo, brightfield, recorded at 8.2X on Canon T3i sensor.

Olympus BHS, 10/0.40 S Plan Apo, crossed polarizers in brightfield, recorded at 22X on Canon T3i sensor.

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:29 pm

Great stuff again, especially that third one, which is my personal favourite.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:14 pm

Wow, very very nice!

Rogelio

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:17 am

Nice!, my favorite is the last one.

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:09 am

Beautiful little shells. Nice work.

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:34 am

Very nice. I like the composition of the 3 but the darkfield close up has a nice pearly appearance.

Wim

Ferry · Post by **Ferry** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:42 pm

Very beautiful! I like the first one.

Ferry

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:43 am

..the 2nd is fantastic!

Arturo