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• Rouste ice, lousewort flowers, and heather in Conrad Basin
• Conrad Basin at the end of August, 2008
• "Horror of Greenvale" house centipede
• Ambush bug
• Digger wasp collecting sweat
  
• Pine Ridge area, Nebraska USA
  
• Spider with ant lion
  
• Aphid lion walking on a kitchen table
  
• Spider on nettle
  
• Geyser spider
  
• Still-life on a tree stump
  
• Business end of a Western Cherry Fruit Fly
  
• Tick mouthparts
  
• Western Tailed Blue butterfly
  
• Fly on buckwheat flower
  
• Crane fly face
  
• Fruit fly portrait
  
• Macro landscape stack using compact digital camera
• Using layers to overcome transparent rendering by TuFuse
  
• Pieris japonica flower
  
• Revisiting the yucca moth: stacked macro vs SEM
  
• Comparison of TuFuse focus stack with other methods
  
• Johnny-Jump-Up, next generation coming up...
  
• Shooting the "Carpet beetle again"
  
• A single comparison of different stacking methods
  
• Carpet beetle again
  
• Wood grain
  
• Johnny Jump-up, a *very* early spring viola
  
• Icicles on a small bush
  
• Sensor size: how does it matter?
• Stereo Pairs: the effect of lighting shifts
  
• Making scale bars with no calculations (OT-->diffraction)
  
• Spider pedipalp (high res and in stereo)
  
• Making scale bars with no calculations
  
• Fritillary butterfly, larva head capsule, 1st instar
  
• Looks like a theatrical mask...(head capsule of Speyeria butterfly larva)
  
• Spiral cocoons -- need help with ID
  
• I sacrificed a thumb for this LED?
  
• Effect of polarizing filters on the cricket mandibles photo
  
• The face behind the mask (cricket mandibles)
• Noctua pronuba scales, broken by turbulence of a CO2 duster
  
• An early Christmas present for Rik (marquetry Gift Box)
  
• Small dark seeds in a spiral head
  
• Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina)
• Visualizing the effect of a microscope's condenser aperture
  
• Small red rock, weathered gray roots, fuzzy green plants
• Shooting "Face of a hobo, for sure!"
  
• Face of a hobo, for sure!
  
• Orb weaving spider, up close and personal
  
• Shooting the "Orb weaving spider, up close and personal"
  
• Hobo spider
• "Dry box" for photographing the hobo spider
  
• Jumping spider on intense orange flower
  
• Egg of a Fritillary butterfly
  
• Eye of a Fritillary butterfly
  
• Face of a hobo? (spider with prey)
  
• Dramatic change in mantis eyes when dark-adapted
• Depth illusion of the moving spot in mantis eyes
  
• Moving black spots on the eyes of a mantis
  
• The sharpest end of a paper wasp
  
• Last ditch defense of a Polistes dominulus paper wasp
  
• Setup for shooting pectinate grooming spurs
• Pectinate grooming spur of a paper wasp (Polistes dominulus)
  
• Big fly, small wasp
• Bee flies
  
• "Thicket Hairstreak" on yellow flower
• Wood tick
  
• Flexible teeth on grooming spur of Pogonomyrmex ant
  
• Pectinate grooming apparatus on flying ant
  
• Attack of the...flying ants?!
  
• Flying ant -- Pogonomyrmex
• Becker's White on "Diffuse Knapweed"
• Spider with beetle prey
• Shieldbacked katydids
• Grasshopper (one each, basic gray)
  
• Cicada shell in sagebrush steppe country
  
• Paper wasp guarding the nest
• Chrysalis of Pontia beckerii (Becker's White)
  
• Mandibles and tongue of yellow jacket wasp
  
• Worm With Spider (Caution: not for the squeamish!)
• Lacewing egg
  
• Black grass seeds
• Predatory fly with flying ant
  
• Hopper on grass seed head
  
• Salsify seeds and parachutes
  
• Aphid predator: fly larva
  
• Nylon and wood bellows parts
• Red flower, green bug
• Maple leaf, 100X, in color and B&W
  
• Microsteris gracilis -- that tiny pink flower underfoot
• White flowers with crab spider & prey
• Propertius Duskywing skipper on dandelion
  
• Souvenier photos from a hike this afternoon (crab spider, bumblebee, fly on flower)
• On the resolution and sharpness of digital images
  
• "You've got mail!" (spider on a computer monitor)
• Golden Veronica
  
• Exotic structure of the Lesser Periwinkle
• Vinca minor pollen
• Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)
• Birch pollen
• Gee, do you suppose I should have mentioned the sharpening?  (Reader's Digest cover episode)
• Single pollen grain of Erodium cicutarium
• Pollen of Erodium cicutarium
  
• Anthers and stigma of Erodium cicutarium
  
• Gee, do you suppose I should have mentioned the sharpening?
• Small black spider on yellow flowering bush
• Syrphid fly and cherry blossoms by the river
  
• Purple star with fibers
  
• 'D' is for dime...or maybe for Denver (10X objective)
  
• Green lacewing
• Domestic concrete
• Shooting "a single maple flower"
• A single maple flower
  
• Reproductive end of a yucca moth
• Heart of an aquatic snail
• Stacking from slow-scan video (moth scales)
• Which microscope objectives do not need compensating objectives?
• Telecentric optics, third round
• Stack-and-stitch: ordinary optics vs telecentric
• Several views of a copepod
• Does anybody know this ciliate?  (Chilodonella)
• Slow motion hypotrich
• Mixed ciliates
  
• Unexpected visitor from the wetlands (waterlouse)
• On illumination techniques (in "Chondrules and inclusions in a 4.6 billion yr old meteorite")
  
• Paramecium et.al. (including discussion of transverse & longitudinal chromatic aberration, and reflecting objectives)
• On how to get started in stacking (in "Macro - Need help selecting eequipment)
  
• On what kind of microscope to buy (in "Yet another newbie wants to buy a scope to take pictures...")
  
• Brown spot on fiber of goldenrod seed parasail
  
• Goldenrod seeds
• Seams like Thanksgiving, don't they?
  
• Marble butterfly -- that's the one with green, isn't it?
  
• Stack & stitch experiment with telecentric optics
• Autographa glitch: 'The Answer Is Blowing In the Wind'
  
• Autographa, stacked and stitched
  
• Big beetle, small beetle...
• 'macro' as 'more detail than unaided eyes'
  
• Discussion about what "macro" means
  
• "Sticky" hairs from a jumping spider's foot (high magnification)
  
• Claws of a cutworm
  
• Foot of a jumping spider
• Inteference colors versus pigments in butterfly wings
  
• Anagrapha moth wing, details of the "Y"
• Lens test with four 50mm lenses (discussion with George Dingwall)
  
• Tumbleweed like you've never seen it!
  
• Earwig, formal portrait
• My very first springtails!
• Non invited bee (image by MacroLuv, comments by Rik about what matters for technical quality)
  
• A closer look at Mum's 'lil ones...
• Just Mum and the 'lil ones...
  
• Pink buckwheat on Mt.Shasta, CA
• Aperture and lens effects on stacking
• Cellar spider = "Daddy-long-legs spider"
  
• Spiny spider under porch roof
  
• Stacking setup for spiny spider under porch roof
  
• Face of a dragon?
  
• Shining tarsus -- whose is it?  (snout beetle foot)
  
• Hair!  It's just hair!
• Peristaltic waves down abdomen of tiny male mayfly
  
• Stacking setup for the mayfly eyes, August 2006
  
• Two tiny mayflies on a writin' stick
• Life is looking up for this tiny male mayfly!
• Spruce budworms take over car dealership!
  
• Madrone bark with spider and prey
• Obelisking dragonfly at RVGS
• Small lizard in Oregon forest
• Spruce Budworm Caterpillars and Parasites
• Flower and lichen
  
• Wooly aphids!  Get your genuine wooly aphids here!
• Conrad Basin, Goat Rocks Wilderness, WA (Favorite Location Forum)
• Guardian of the campsite?
  
• On the eve of the summer solstice...  (locust bark)
  
• Pretty mushroom -- Amanita muscaria?
• Carpenter ants on a rotting tree
  
• Just another flashy caterpillar...
  
• Have you ever seen a snake fly?
• The last click beetle trigger photos?
  
• Click beetle trigger mechanism in operation
  
• Half of a click beetle's trigger mechanism
  
• Lady beetle putting its fancy colors on
  
• Possibly the world's worst setscrew...
  
• Check out the tail on this wasp!
  
• Do *not* touch this caterpillar! (sheep moth)
  
• Call me "cute", will you?! (jumping spider)
• Bee Still (images by Ken Nelson -- comments by Rik about unsharp masking)
  
• Minature metal glaciers?
• Who woulda' thought a carpet beetle would look like this?
• Tinier spring flowers
• Blue butterfly: small but cooperative
• Between the gills of a mushroom
• Fungus on Scotch-Brite pad?
• Some serious dry-land lichen
• I'm going cross-eyed looking at these tiny spring flowers
• Frost Spikes 4 -- The Clubs?!
• Frost Spikes 3
• Frost Spikes 2
• Christmas LED
  
• Last rose of fall?
• Frost spikes
• Parasitic wasp on end-of-the-year-aphids
  
• End-of-the-year aphids
  
• A contrast of ... refinement?  (moth on porch light)
• Video setup used on shows such as Insectia
• Effect of sensor size on DOF etc
  
• Effect of lens aperture on DOF and resolution
• Will you be dining above or below deck?
• Syrphid fly departing
• Mating slugs
  
• Blue butterfly taking off -- 4 frames in 1/15 second
• Butterfly's sculpted egg -- a suitable wedding present?
• Stacking the wily moth
• Scales of a Sulpher (butterfly)
• Visual system of jumping spiders
• WC 8-4 Tumbleweed spikes (discovered missing from forum, 2006-05-22)
• WC 8-4 Another spider (discovered missing from forum, 2006-05-22)
• Flight machine (refs to dragonfly flight articles and FP flash technology)
  

Forums

• NorWestLeps Yahoo Group
  
• PanoTools Yahoo Group
• What kind of a person joins PanoTools?
  
• Microscope Yahoo Group
• http://www.photomacrography.net/
• Panotools Wiki
• PanoTools at Gmane
• Washington Trails Association
  

Galleries

• Stereo 3D Photo Gallery (including micro and macro)
• Wim Van Egmund Stereo Gallery
• Israel Fichman macro gallery at PBase.com
  

Macro/Micro Photography Equipment and Technique

• A comparison of 8 macro lenses
  
• "Ring" flash with stacked macro lenses
• The Home Made Combined Macro Lens (using toilet paper rolls)
• Charles Krebs' photomicroscopy setup
• Charles Krebs' low-power photomicroscopy setup (e.g. for flies)
  
• Stereo Viewer Selection Chart
• CombineZ
• Russell Brown Tips & Techniques (Photoshop)
• Edmund Optics Dolan-Jenner DC-950 DC-Regulated Fiber Optic Illuminator
• Incident Darkfield Illumination Setup with LEDs
• Cleaning Digital Camera Sensors
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/sensorcleaning.mspx
• http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/
• http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/sensor-cleaning.shtml
• Zeiss: Microscopy From The Very Beginning
• Gordon Cougar: links to links about microscopy
• Alan Hadley's web site, micropics.org
• The Clean Microscope (Zeiss)
• Homemade goniometer (3D positioner)
• Tom Webster's macro flash bracket
  

Charles Krebs' Macro/Micro Images (outdated list!)

• http://krebsmicro.com/

Miscellaneous

• The down of a thistle

Insects

• Yellowjacket "portrait"
• Mosquito head from a very large stack
• New 4X and a new fly.  (Wild lookin' one too!)
• Mosquito Larva (crossed polarizers, showing muscles)
• Horsefly (using new field-stacking setup)
• Leafhopper.  Leafhopper eating.  Leafhopper being eaten.
• Aphids for breakfast, lunch and dinner...
• The eggs hatched!
• Damselfly lookin' right at ya!  Unknown beetle.
• Egg cluster
• Green Lacewing
  
• Green Stink Bug
• Happy looking nymph
• Damselfly nymph
• Water flea (dorsal view)
• The itsy bitsy spider(S)
• Insects beware (fly head, and technique to photograph it)
  
• Ladybug Head Shot
  
• Syrphid Fly Head
• Butterfly Wings (non-iridescent scales)
• Butterfly Wings (iridescent scales)
  
• Carpenter Ant Face
• Scales of Two Butterfly Wings
• Cranefly Haltere
• Crane Fly Head
• The face of death! (Mosquito Pupa)
• Two Fly Heads
• Bee's knees (sort of....) Part II (Honeybee Pollen Combs)
• Bee Face
• Scales of Two (More) Butterfly Wings
• Water Boatman Leg
• Butterfly Scale Detail
• Something for the Aphid Lovers
• Two Individual Butterfly Wing Scales
• Mosquito larva breathing tube
• Yeah, they're a bit showy, but the reception is awesome! (Chironomid midge antennae)
• This is the bee's knees! (really)
• Mosquito Wing #1 (10X objective)
• Mosquito Wing #2 (40X objective)
• Urania ripheus (Sunset Moth), wing scale detail
• Honeybee eye (87 images stacked)
• Urania ripheus (Sunset Moth) revisited
• Insects beware! (and how he did it)
  

Protozoa and suchlike

• Rufous hummingbird feather (in DIC)
• Seed Shrimp
  
• Paramecium Contractile-Vacuole Pores
• Paramecium bursaria (darkfield)
  
• Bdelloid Rotifer Heads
• Amoebas and Paramecium
• Acineta (suctorian ciliate)
• Floscularia ringens. Making "bricks" for tube
• Platycola
• Mickey Mouse of the Rotifer World
• Waterflea in Darkfield Illumination
• Euglena spirogyra (darkfield)
• Cyclops (24 image stack)
• Euplotes, reproduction via fission
• Coleps, final stages of binary fission
• Coleps feeding frenzy
• Suctorian on cyclops
• What have we here? (tiny ciliate with Volvox)
  

Panoramas

• Downtown Minneapolis from a Helicopter
• Extreme Fullscreen (e.g. ice climbing)
• Welcome to Verdon (Erik Krause, Verdon Gorge)
• Faf Acrobase (parachutist descending)
• Danish Royal Wedding shot by Hans Nyberg
• QTVR.DK - The Royal Wedding Panoramic Images
• Toompea Castle

Equipment

• Adorama Camera
• B&H Photo
  
• Edmund Optics
  
• Anchor Optics
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars (SteadyPix camera mount)
  

Other of Rik's Stuff

• 35mm Film vs DSLR: Gradation, Resolution, and Dynamic Range
  
• Cleaning a Microscope Focus Mechanism: aus Jena Laboval 2
• Canon Digital Rebel Color Resolution Tests (Red/Green/Blue, versus Bayer filter)
  

Favorite TED Talks

• Juan Enriquez: Decoding the future with genomics
  
• Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy? ("real" versus "synthetic" happiness)
  
• Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?  (what is consciousness?)
• Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
• Al Seckel: Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it!  (fascinating optical illusions)
  
• William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle  ("There is no finish line.")
  

3D and Extended DOF Imaging Companies & Software

• Helicon Focus
• CombineZM
• TuFuse: Exposure and Focus Blending Software
  
• Syncroscopy
  
• FM Pharmaceutical Products 3D Digital Video Microscope with automated XYZ stage and servo controlled micro manipulators
• Photron All-In_Focus Microscopy Camera (piezoelectric motion of a microscope objective)
• Keyence digital microscope
• Saphicon Software and Hardware for Extended Depth of Field Imaging
• Picolay
• Image-Pro (Media Cybernetics)
• BIG plugin for ImageJ
• Enfuse: similar to TuFuse but open-source (and lower quality)
• SAR Image Processor
  

Miscellaneous

• Versions of Luminar lenses
  
• Sophisticated rig for photographing insects in flight, built with laser pointers and custom mechanical shutter.
  (This link is to older versions in the Internet Archive WaybackMachine. Current version seems to be at http://www.pbase.com/fotoopa/root, :: laser_system :: link.
  
• Norman Koren's downloadable lens test charts
  
• Zotero tool to collect, manage, and cite research sources
  
• Butterflies of America
  
• Alan Hadley's posting about "Stacking Method Spectrum"
  
• Helmut Dersch: LAN/WLAN Interface for Digital Cameras
  
• Numerous BIG algorithms including extended depth of field
  
• Lack of color management in almost all browsers
  
• Gigapixel stitching on the Playstation 3
  
• Digital micrography presentation (Powerpoint, as PDF)
  
• "focusstack" tag at Flickr (There are also tags for "heliconfocus", "combinez", "combinez5", "combinezm", and "automontage", though each with only a few images.)
  
• Max Lyons' exposure and focus blending software
  
• Imaging Resource "Comparometer" Digital Camera Image Comparison Page
  
• Packing Instructions for Shipping a Microscope
  
• Mike Reed's "Flame Warriors" (a caricature gallery of forum participants)
  
• Why one pro prefers film to digital for VR panoramas (with links to other good articles)
  
• Giotto software for background and dust subtraction (including pushbroom defect removal)
  
• ETime Home Endoscope ("Digital Pen Camera")
• Max Lyons' "Autumn Leaf Gigapixel #2", referencing photomacrography.net and Rik Littlefield's work in stack-and-stitch
  
• Charlie Krebs' spreadsheet for calculating required resolution for photography through a microscope
  
• RMS (Royal Microscopical Society) objective thread specification
  
• "Equivalence" -- on the comparison of digital sensors of various sizes
  
• Leitz: Image-Forming and Illuminating Systems of the Microscope
  
• Flickr: The DOF Stacking Pool
  
• Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs
• "Unshake" -- free code to do blind convolution
• Tutorial on use of CombineZ, by Brian V. at Digital Grin
  
• "PocketScope" 150X single-lens microscope (<2 micron resolution) -- pocketscope.com
  
• "Light Field Photography with a Hand-held Plenoptic Camera" -- Stanford Tech Report STCS 2005-02 (refocusing and parallax after-the-shot)
  
• Microscopes, Filters, Diaphragms, and Stops
  
• "COI - Telecentric Lenses: What you need to know"
  
• Norman Koren's "Resolution and MTF curves in film and lenses"
  
• Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State
  
• DOFMaster depth-of-field calculator
  
• Canon Digital Rebel (300D) manual
• Olympus macro lenses technical info
  
• British company that makes photo adapters
  
• GigaPxl project (film at 9x18" format, with full-custom lenses)
  
• Max Lyons Digital Image Gallery
• Modified Panorama Tools (improved optimizer)
• John Houghton Panorama Photography
• Big Ben's Panorama Tutorials
• "Squaring the Circle in Panoramas" (research paper on multi-plane and multi-view projections)
  
• panoguide.com - the guide to panoramas and panoramic photography
• PTViewer documentation mirror
• Max Lyons forums -- Extended Focus
• VRMAG -- "the travel, photography and technology magazine devoted to the world of 360-degree virtual reality"
  
• Botryococcus, golden algae
• NASA's Visible Earth
  
• Perpendicular Distance to a Line (Ask Dr.Math)
• Perpendicular Distance of a Line
• 2.5mm stereo extension (Canon remote release extension)
• Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras
  
• Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (Andrew Moore)
• Rik's introductory posting on Microscope Yahoo group
• Microscope HF-CZ Thread
• Thoughts on Extended Depth of Field With Don Williams' Microscopy Sequence
• Luxeon Star LEDs (bright white)
• Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer
• Zeiss-Jena microscope manuals
• Yahoo Microscope group, description of Microscopy Today online
  
• Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer & Viewer
• Removing the shadow (using Photoshop)
• WTU Herbarium Image Collection (Burke Museum, plant identification)
• Burke Museum, Arachnology (Rod Crawford)
  
• Bernhard Vogl's version of manual HDR blending
• BugGuide.net
• Rik's posting of the Lep Soc News article on the Photomacrography forum
• Rik's posting of the Icaricia lupini egg on the Photomacrography forum
  
• Blue Butterfly Taking Off
• Slugs Mating
• DVD reliability -- PanoTools forum thread (see especially Erik Krause's postings)
• Digital/stepper/USB posting, Yahoo Microscope group
• Microtomes (everything you ever wanted to know...)
• GIMP resynthesizer for patching holes with believable textures (and followup)
• Children Learn By Monkey See, Monkey Do.  Chimps don't.
• Topcoder's aubergineanode
• Topcoder design reviewers
  

Energy consumption and carbon footprint

• Carbon Pollution Calculator (try 12000 miles/year auto, 30000 miles/year airline, and 30000 kwh/yr electricity)
  
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Generation of Electric Power in the United States