Striking beauty; outstanding!

Spectacular work!

Beautiful series, nice discussion!

I'm late, but had to comment. These are spectacular! Thank you!

The lacewing is Most Magnificent!

Thanks to you both. Chris, here's your reference in case you need it again:


http://archive.bio.ed.ac.uk/jdeacon/microbes/lichen.htm

I own the carcasses of 3 of these (Wesco) scopes which I bought about a year ago in a group; they were well used and abused. I doubt that any of them were good enough to be the basis for a focusing block, but my use was to cut off the top of the scope, replace the slide-holding fingers with a thin m...

Great shots; I'm particularly fond of the frog peering over the leaf!

I particularly like that back-lit crab; sci-fi dramatic!

Thanks to you both, Chris and Rogelio. Thanks to you especially Chris for your earlier reference on lichens; I read it in its entirety and learned much. I wonder if some of the fungal partners in the lichen complex will in the future be found to incorporate some of the algal genes as we apparently h...

My thanks to all of you for your kind comments.

This small (some 8 mm for the tallest) "pixie cup" lichen is quite common, but seems uncommonly beautiful.







Lumbercam/reversed 50 mm el Nikkor/Nikon D3S/Stackshot/Zerene

Labophot, 10X achro

I found this chap, apparently dead of natural causes, in some very stale water that had held a flower arrangement. At about 1mm, he seemed too large to likely be a gastrotrich, but if not, what?

Thanks, Michael, for the how-to!

Leonard

Very nice. I had wondered about using an old grad density filter and played a bit with one with no good results. How did you arrange the filter bits?