Deception

Frez · Post by **Frez** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:33 pm

Will the real Suriella please stand up. The first is optical staining, the second DIC and the third Anoptral phase. All were stacked with CombineZ.

Frez

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:40 am

That really is a good looking phase image!
Did you introduce a retardation plate of some type into your DIC for the "optical staining" or is that just with the upper prism shifted into the "colorful" range? (Or is it something entirely different?)

Frez · Post by **Frez** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:45 am

The upper prism was shifted for the staining. I think it's called bias retardation. It's kind of like the same thing you did to the water mites bartender.

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:55 am

Great stuff, Frez

Frez · Post by **Frez** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:03 am

Graham, the second one looks like cement to me.

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:11 am

Does too! - some of mine come out looking like plaster casts

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:43 am

Well what ever you did there Frez, you did a good job it, these are super!

RCarter · Post by **RCarter** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:41 pm

Frez,

These are magnificent images of Cymatopleura elliptica var. hibernica (W. Smith) Van Heurck, just in case you are interested in a name for the critter. Is this specimen from Toome Bridge, Northern Ireland, by any chance?

I am in awe of your ability to get images like these!!

Regards, Dick Carter

Frez · Post by **Frez** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:40 pm

Thank You Dick! ...and thanks for the P. sulcata ID. I lost access to all of my ID plates. They're on my P430 machine that lost its power supply. The hard drive is ATA.

This specimen was from a fossil deposit in Loch Cuither in Isle Of Skye, UK.

RCarter · Post by **RCarter** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:54 am

Frez,

Thanks for the response to my question. I have not seen any of the freshwater fossil material from Skye, but I have a number of slides from fossil deposits around Loch Oich and the Caledonian Canal, in northern Scotland. I'd like to get some of the diatomite from Mull, too. I asked about Toome Bridge only because this form is so remarkably abundant there. In some samples there will be at least one of these in every field.

My sympathies on hard drive difficulties -- I had a big crash last summer, and lost a lot of photos. Including stills and videos of a ciliate that I had just made, a bizarre critter that looked just like a first baseman's glove, if you can imagine that! No idea what it was....and probably never will, unless I can get another one to cooperate.

Again, fantastic photos!

Regards, Dick Carter