The Sanderson picture of onion skin is spectacular and I remember reading the paper now - can't remember why I didn't try it. The paper itself does not show good pictures, but the onion skin photos by Saul was amazing for sure.
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Very nice photos of spring tails, I like the white background.
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Interesting photos. I sometimes find desmids when squeezing moss next to a lake, but never seen the structures you show - very nice images.
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Nice macro shots Charles, lots of find detail. On another note DK books was trying to contact you but reached me instead - I gave her your web web site and also this web site. It was a lady from India looking for photomicrographs for DK (Dorling Kindersley) book project -I hope she connected with yo...

That is interesting - snot is partly made up of dead white blood cells, but never seen it crystallized before.
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HI - as Pau said it is a Diatom - you will find them as slime on rocks in rivers, streams, waterfalls and ponds and there are thousands of shapes and different species. What caught my eye was your Olympus E microscope. That was my first "real" microscope I purchased over 50 years ago and I am still ...

Hi Nice images of caffeine they mostly show those pointy needle like-crystals in water in my experience. Two suggestions to get other shaped crystals. 1. Melt the crystals on medium to low heat on the slide with a coverslip on top and they will form crystal sheets with more variability you can also ...

Very nice photos - I tried getting some high mag images of Euglenoids a few weeks ago and it was difficult and I never achieved images I was happy with at 1000X they just kept on moving. I tried flattening them by removiing most of the water under the coverslip but still difficult. What did you do t...

Beautiful photomicrographs, also visited your web site to look at some of your amazing insect photos. I am fortunate to have access to a SEM at the local University, but I must pay an hourly rate over $100\hr. Best prices for a small SEM I have found on a desktop models for Forensic science labs is ...

Hi Scarodactyl - I looked at some articles about Sanderson contrast technique sometime ago, but I wasn't that impressed with the images and ended up filing the paper somewhere. I am hoping that DIC and phase contrast will eventually be available to everyone by using software to process bright field ...

Hi Lou - I understand one can even make their own Fluorescence microscope, they still require dichroic filters etc and the cost of new Fluorescence attachment rrom China are in the order of $5,000 e.g. visit Motic.com web site - sometimes you can get lucky and get lower cost scopes or irridiate t0eh...

I have just posted a new article on my website about DIC microscopy and how it compares to other microscopy methods. https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/diffential_interference_microscopy.html I have also been trying to find software previously described that simulates DIC and Phase contrast ...

Beautiful images. The False colouring how was it done? The link you provided above gives a 404 error.
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Beautiful images - at first I thought they looked like Radiolaria.
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Beautiful photo!
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