Sea Urchin Egg

Tom Jones · Post by **Tom Jones** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:13 pm

This is a fertilized, Purple Sea Urchin egg from a hands-on marine biology workshop today at Santa Monica City College for the Microscopy Society of Southern California. Sperm and egg production were induced by injecting 0.5M KCl into the urchin body. Ed Tarvyd gave a wonderful presentation.

I left my real camera at home

, so the photo was taken using the afocal method with my Samsung Galaxy 5 cellphone camera, handheld.

Olympus BH-2, DPlan 20x, WHK10/20L eyepiece. Cropped, color balanced (sort of...), and minor sharpening in Lightroom.

Tom

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:22 pm

Hello
Very nice

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:21 am

Super!

Tom Jones · Post by **Tom Jones** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:59 am

Thanks for the nice comments. I was pretty happy with the way it came out.

Tom