Hello everybody,

does anyone have an idea what kind of lovely this one might be?






Bernhard

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Hi folks, First of all I don't think it's Limnia. These tubes made of round pills are typical for Floscularia ( Limnia forms rings, making it look like a caterpillar). I found some rather amazing facts about how they produce these pills. There are species that use their own faeces!! Meaning that aft...

"But these are great images. The top one is Rotaria and the second is Philodina I believe. The difference is in the position of the eyes. In Philodina they are in front of the sensory organ, in Rotaria they are oin the other side of that. " Hi Wim, please pardon my audacity, but it's just the other ...

Hi Frez,

I love the first one too. It should be a Gomphonema, isn't it? Really beuatiful colours.

Bernhard

Hi, my homepage is almost ready and soon I can post pictures directly from there, hopefully with less cryptic URL's. I hope this will solve Ken's problem, obviously his browser doesn`t like my foto host. And I have to apologize for not having read the guidelines for the size of the pictures. I promi...

Hi folks, this is a rotifer collected from the litoral zone of a small pond. I think it's Cephalodella catellina. Having redone the white balance measuring and with the light source at full blast, the pictures still looked like a study in scarlet. But only the rotifer ones, other ciliates came over ...

Hi Steffen, I think they are the pores from which the pollen tubes eventually germinate. The "skin" of the pollen is made of to layers of very resistant material, the so-called intine and exine. That is why the pollen preserves so well and we can benefit from in pollen analysis. The pores are the on...

Hi Charles, thank you very much for your help and advice, of course I don't mind, to the contrary. Well, I confess that I'm not only a beginner in microphotography , but in digital photography in general. What I use now for slight enhancements is Ulead Photo Express. I can certainly alter brightness...

That's gorgeous, Wim!!!


Bernhard

Hi once again, I´ve play around a bit with my modest picture programm. At least one can call it a blue trumpet now.

Best wishes

Bernhard

Hello Wim, thanks very much for your encouragement and your advice, always welcome. Well, to start with, of course the Coolpix 990 does feature white balance setting. I´ve done a measurement when I started out, but all my pictures look a bit different. That may be due to the fact that I don´t always...

http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool02/94/74/66/20/AD/F5/11/DA/BE/36/3A/FE/59/30/A4/00/10/FD080550C86E11DA8265C7F75930894A.jpg Hi, folks this is one of my first attempts in microphotography. Well, there is a lot to improve still, but the picture shows the pearl-like macronucleus very nicely, I thi...

Hello Wim,

well, I can´t tell for sure wether this is conjugation. But I´m pretty sure that it´s not cell division. Ciliates divide by transverse binary fission ( except the peritrichs). So , divided ciliats cling together with their ends and not side by side.

Best wishes

Bernhard Lebeda

Hello Charles, in my german book " Der Algenführer" (i.e. Guide to freshwateralgae) there is a picture very similar to yours ( well, yours is ten times better, of course) .It is a Cymbella and it says in the text that this algae either adheres to substrate by stalks or by the formation of colonies i...