My god-son Laurence and I went for a walk next to the canal at Hopwas Woods near Lichfield today and took a water sample from a stagnant pool next to the canal.
Images below with 100x oil immersion lens (with immersion oil), Bresser MicroCam SP 5.1 camera.
Stained with H&E stain, heat fixation.
I used Registax 6 to stack video files and GIMP to stretch the histogram – applying astronomy imaging techniques to microscopy!
Andy
We found this organism attached to a piece of vegetation – note the multiple linear structures along edge of its body – video below shows us changing focus through body of the organism – multiple blue dots are bright/dead pixels on camera – Oh what I wouldn’t give for a COOLED microscope camera!
Diatom skeleton showing structure in skeleton:
