Now that I am able to relax a bit I've solved a lighting problem and dissected a tick to examine its guts to find out if it was carrying the agent of Lyme disease -- one of our little dogs is sick and the tick came from behind his ear. And I also made more crystal micrographs purely for their aesthetic value. The tick was clean, but I took a picture anyway because I found an interesting spore forming bacterial cell; the rod with the 'ballooning' end in 015.
They can be found at: http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/edfw/somemore/index.htm The third on the right in the top row 015 is darkfield micrograph, original magnification 950X of the contents of the mid-gut of the animal in the last picture -- a member of the genus Ixodes. All the others are crystals grown in different ways. The bad tick picture was made with a bellows and a Vega 50/2.8 lens - which is very good by the way - and the Metz 45 CT-4. For the Micrographs the camera was a P30T on automatic, attached to a beam splitter on a Lomo Model 11 Research Microscope. Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery See New Pages "The Cement Company from HELL!" Updated: August 15, 2003
