Beautiful handling of lighting, colors, and contrast. Nice work indeed.

Very interesting, and quite nice work as well. Is the "sticky" that traps the insects elaborated by the trichomes? I particularly like the second and third images.

Thank you; interesting, informative and very nicely imaged!

Very nice video. He is a busy little fellow, and a potent pooper!
Thank you for the background info; always good to learn something.

I particularly like the first and fourth images. Are these a variety of Cladonia?

An incredible instrument, capably utilized with good result. Thank you!

Interesting detail; looks a bit like a sad mushroom. I like the BW version too.

My thanks to you both, Mike and Sumguy; much appreciated.

Well done!

Very nice work!

My thanks to you all for your kind comments. Carlos, from top to bottom they are flea, dandelion seed head, antenna of bumblebee, a small fly, and a large black ant. Abpho, a fascinating idea to try to duplicate the SEM look. I'd like to play with that when I get a little time. Lou, I was no expert ...

Some 20 years ago I had the great good luck to be given the run of a Zeiss DSM 962 scanning electron microscope in exchange for showing it off to visitors at a natural history museum. My responsibilities included finding specimens, mounting them on the 1.3 cm aluminum slugs, and sputter coating them...

Thanks jiphoto and Asha. Devaluation if of little import since I only paid some $35 for it some time back and had no plans to sell it (and certainly would not offer it in its present unhappy state). Asha, I was aware that the lens might still be usable, but your comments gave me the impetus to try i...

My thanks to you both. This really helps my understanding, and I appreciate your comments.

Leonard Turner

Inspired by the recent posting by another member, I pulled out my elderly 63 mm El Nikkor recently, only to find the front surface apparently quite dirty. When efforts to clean it failed, I took a closer look and found the interesting pattern shown here. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix...