Hi,
thanks a lot for the praise! @Macro_Cosmos you are right. It is from Newport Beach, CA . For me one of the greatest localities there is, probably only beaten by Oamaru... (Though I have yet to get material from there...)
Happy new year to you all!
Jan

Hi, I thought I would show you one of my recent diatom arrangements over here as well :). This one was was a real challenge for me and took ca. 100 h for selection, arrangemwent, embeding etc. . Escpecially the moment of embedding it in resin was not fun, as the work is basically done, but you can s...

Hi, here is a diatom arrangement I made a few weeks ago. Had to look through a lot of strew slides to find another one of the Trinacria spec. where I first found the mutated frustule in the centre and wanted to check whether it's a mutation or another species. As I found an identical one without the...

Hi, the SSL issue should be resolved now. The website has a new certificate. Can you see the images now? Thanks also for the praise on the images. :) I indeed prepare my slides without a micromanipulator. At the moment I am not selling any slides but I might in the future. I will also think about si...

Hi, I recently started arranging diatoms. This is an arrangement with material from Dunkirk, MD I made a few weeks ago. With this one I am quite happy, even though there still are some minor problems... I also gravely underestimated the number of shells it takes to fill a circle with 1.5 mm diameter...

Hi,
thanks for the praise!

@ Lou I agree with you, I like the first two more as well. On my small laptop screen the last one looks ok as well, but if you use a bigger screen it does seem a bit less sharp.
Best,
Jan

Hi, this is my very first post in this community. I am usually a lot more acitve in the German forums. But as I was very kindly received and a have learned quite a few things over the last few days reading in this forum I thought I would also share a few photos with you over here. So please enjoy a ...