Thanks for the nice comments. I found another bit of these today and watched the oil droplets come out in dark field--very nice slide show. I probably should have taken time lapse, but that will have to be another time. Another thing I noticed is all the cercomonas in the surface slime--very thick w...

Wow--these are nice. The blood vessel detail in the first is amazing.

I recently obtained a 100 form diatom slide from Klaus Kemp. Have to say it is perhaps the most beautiful slide I have ever seen. I did a quick darkfield stitch from 12 images (10x NPL Fluotar, Diavert, Heine condenser). They lose some of their individual splendor at such a low power, but I think it...

Great image! But they are obviously fairies!

Thanks for the ID Bernd. The only pics I can find are large chytrids on frogs and such--nothing at this scale, but I guess the fungus has to start somewhere.

Thanks for looking Carlos--I've never seen anything like this before.

Yes, something happened to the server today It's been working for the last year! Hopefully it will get fixed tomorrow. I can ftp in, but I think the public_html permissions got changed by someone.

I found of a bunch of these flagellates today, and almost all of them had these bubble-like extensions/attachments. I have searched and I can't find flagellates with bubbles. The main bodies are about 8um long. A few did not have the bubbles and cruised at high speeds, while the ones with "bubbles" ...

Took a sample of some surface scum on the water today. It was filled with these algae colonies belching out droplets. Turns out the scum looks oily because these algae are 30-40% hydrocarbon oil by dry weight! The bodies are about 8um long. This colony is about 400um in diameter, and it's a dense pa...