Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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:

TJ said...

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!)