Espana! One of my favorite countries and Barcelona, one of my favorite cities and Los Caracoles one of my favorite restaurants when I last visited. But however that was many a long year ago. Welcome!

Actually it looks quite good!

Wonderful shots, especially the second one and the last.

Meiji EMZ-8TRH w/Canon Powershot G9X 10mm f/2 @ 1/15 sec. ISO 125 Illumination 6.5W LED 3k

Corticulous myxomycete 1mm in height give or take a micron or two.

A simple clean background, with a very detailed subject. Very nice! Amazing as to how the organism that once lived here was able to construct such an exquisite structure out of the four nucleotides that all living organisms posses.

Not to say that there are not others having been posted, I don't know, but I do believe that this is the first frontal shot of a freshwater mite that I have ever seen. Interesting to see that it has what appears to be "fangs" also! A very good image there Christian

Sumguy01 wrote: Interesting.
Thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

Taking my usual late afternoon/early evening stroll through the woodlands here at home and came across a number of galls on the leaves of a young Hickory, I think it is. Anyway, got curious, cut one open and had a look through the Meiji :) http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/4_IMG_0031_Mei...

Lou Jost wrote:400x on the sensor? Afocal through 10x eyepiece?

I would imagine. I'm digiscoping, quite a simple set up really. We don't get overly carried away here in the foothills of the Appalachia. Thanks Lou

Quite pretty, though I can imagine a "kidney" hanging off either side.

Great idea and images! Makes me want to see what is on my local tree trunks. What was the magnification on the top image? All but the last were at X400 using a Zeiss 40X/0.65 CP Achromat. I suspect they belong to the Nostocales, and though what might be heterocysts, seem to be scattered. As for siz...

I need to visit one of the ponds in my local park and grab a couple of samples or pay a visit to my local trout stream or both. I used to keep jars of protozoa sitting around and would enjoy them hours on end at the microscope but got fascinated by amoebae and then got even more curious about plasmo...

nanometer wrote:Very neat. These things are everywhere! No such wonderful goodies on tree bark here in S AZ -- the sun would have fried them in an hour.

I can imagine! High heat, low humidity but it would also be a good place to look for extremophiles. Thanks nanometer

nanometer wrote:Butterfly wing scales never disappoint--really nice.

Thanks nanometer

During my daily quest for corticulous myxomycetes, I noticed the dark almost blackish-green gelatinous spheres either singly or in clusters along the surface of the tree bark I was observing or searching with the dissecting microscope. Slime mold plasmodia are very elusive sometimes, or can be, what...