Success!
Though for some reason, flickr either won't let me upload from work, or won't let me upload from my hard drive, or won't let me upload right now. I don't know which it is. But let's try Blogger's photo functionality:
Those are the three most "photogenic" of the critters I've been photographing. A beetle of some sort, what I think must be a protruan, and a hypogastrurid collembolan (aka "springtail.")
It took quite a bit of fiddling to get things sorted, but in the end, I am doing the identification and counting in my office, at a dissecting scope where I can swap out the camera on one of the eyepieces as needed. (I need to be able to use binocular vision to find these things or I wind up getting a headache.)
It's actually a lot more fun looking for stuff when you can photograph it.
1 comment:
Something about a dissecting scope is more fun than a proper scope--maybe it has to do with the fact that I mostly ever use the dissecting scope for not-entirely-work related things like looking at fossils or moth wings. (Those things could easily be someone else's work, but I get to stop when it stops being fun!)
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