SUPER small wonders....

[Slyster]

I enjoyed the "small wonders" post.. thought I'd start my own SUPER small wonders post.. I used to work as a scanning electron microscope tech and so I took these shots one weekend on my own time.. common insects that I found around my own house the day before...

[Tom Wilson]

Those are pretty cool Slyster. I have to assume they were all deceased at the time of photo? I love the shots of the eye close up.

[ZOKU]

Awesome!!

[toughguy]

Whoa, so there could be an entire universe in a speck of dust under my fingernail. So our entire universe could be just a speck of dust under someone's fingernail."

- Pinto - Animal House 1978

[Slyster]

Yeah.. for electron microscopy you need to first "sputter coat" the samples with a thin layer of gold in a vacuum chamber. That usually does them in... and then of course the 10-15 thousand volts of electrons hitting them in the scope (air also pumped out to nearly a complete vacuum) knocks out them stragglers.