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Rik's major photomacrography forum postings
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
From posting at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorWestLeps/message/2305
:
Saturniidae Livestock
http://www3.islandtelecom.com/~oehlkew
Sphingidae of the Americas
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/usatable.htm
North American Catocala
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/catocala.html
Two outstanding membership sites:
World's Largest Saturniidae Site
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/indexos.htm
Caterpillars Too!
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/ButterflyIntro.htm
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