Barbed wire fence

This is a picture of the edge of the cover slip on a prepared slide taken at 4x under brightfield. I thought it looked neat, but it's upside down.

Medusa's Baby

Aurelia Jellyfish larvea prepared slide under 10x magnification. Specimen was viewed under brightfeild, and the focus was directed toward the outer tendrils.

Same as above, but focus was directed toward the mouth area.

Now the same specimen is observed under a DIC microscope at 20x magnification. More texture is observed on the outer surface of the larvea. It is still out of focus because the central mouth protrudes away from the tendrils. 

DIC 20x magnification.

Culex mosquito wing tip

 

A Culex mosquito prepared specimen slide was obtained form the biology microscopy department in the Bioscience building at JMU.  The wing tip was imaged using a DIC microscope with polarizer in place at 20x magnification.

Fall Leaf

Leaf collected outside of Bioscience Building viewed under dissecting microscope at 16X magnification.

Trichinella Encysted Larvae

Trichinella Encysted Larvae at 20x DIC

Z-stacked and rendered Bovine pulmonary epithelial cell.  Lizz and I did this one.  Team effort. 

Microscopy Christmas!

8x magnification silver Christmas bow

8x magnification red Christmas bow

35x magnification silver Christmas bow

8x magnification Christmas tree light

8x magnification tinsel

8x magnification tinsel

Feeling festive early this year so I placed decorations taken from a Christmas tree under a dissecting microscope at various magnifications.  Merry Christmas!

The Beauty of Pond Scum

 algal sample for experimental ponds, confocal microscope, 60x, small pinhole, laser: 488 nm and 561 nm, zstack

My credit card and license under a disecting scope at 16x.

Almost snowflakes

 A picture of honey crystals under polarized light with a 20x objective. They almost remind me of snowflakes. This is something I would recommend looking at for yourself because the tiny slivers are difficult to capture in a picture.

A closer view. Honey crystals with a 40x objective.

Webbing

Z-stack on the confocal microscope at 40x magnification of Fluocells.  Averaging and line-lambda were used to take these images.

snake skin

Dissecting microscope picture of shed snake skin taken at 40x. The snake skin was found along Blacks Run in downtown Harrisonburg. It appeared to have gotten caught in brush during a flood.

Clashing Camo

Larvae feeding off of a hearty leaf. It is possibly a winged Hexapod because the mature insects that surrounded it appeared to be from the same colony. Specimen was viewed under a dissecting microscope at 16x magnification.

Eye of the storm

10x DIC

20x DIC

20x DIC

Prepared slide of a trachea and esophagus of a fetal rat.  I love the last one because it reminds me of looking at a hurricane weather pattern with the eye of the storm. The slide was observed using DIC microscopy.

Overlapping leaf petals

overlapping leaf petals, 16x dissecting

Snail radula

This is a prepared slide specimen of snail radula.  The image was viewed using a DIC light microscope with polarizer in place, prism tuned for a black background, and 10x magnification.

Bronchial torture ball

pollen grain at 60x oil confocal.  I forget the pinhole size, but this was the best of 4.  

Bog

Z-series using fluorescence microscopy of neurons stained with TRITC at 40x magnification.  This was taken from a slide of rat brains provided by Dr. Gabriele's lab.  Since this was taken using fluorescence microscopy, there is a lot of out of focus light present in the picture.  In the future, I will be attempting this again using the Z-stack with the confocal setting to remedy this problem

Metal Pattern

Metallic pattern under dissecting microscope at 35X magnification

Janthinobacterium lividum

Janthinobacterium lividum, a probiotic bacteria species for amphibians.  Taken in phase contrast, 40x

Sick

I got sick and wanted to diagnose myself, soI took a look at a throat swab and did a DIC image at 40x.  I didn't really figure out what I was sick from, but I did find some cool crystallaziation, maybe estrogen or something, I don't really know. 

This is the same throat swab (different fov) using 100x DIC.  It isn't really possible to tell what the bacteria was without dye, but if you look carefully, you can see some rods and small cocci. 

wick

Candle wick observed under 35x magnification under dissecting microscope.