I've probably accumulated about 10-20GB of protist pics by now. And a couple DV tapes' worth of video. Still got some work to do before I can catch up with my 80GB of Arabidopsis epidermis pictures (mostly of all sorts of mutilated stomata), but this is for fun rather than data, and thus accumulates much slower. Most of them are crap or uninteresting by now, but the others might as well get dumped here as raw data from 'field work'. The wonderful thing about microscopy is that the more you know, the more new things you observe, and the more interesting it gets. Eg. once you're no longer distracted by trying to identify unknown things, you pay more attention to behaviour. Anyway, I'll dump the photos in random installments here and there, hope there's at least something interesting for you from time to time.
To begin, a fuzzy ciliate of sorts. Prominent contractile vacuole, and I think in the left image I think you can make out its macronucleus or two. Can't see the mouth so IDing it is a bit difficult.
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