Tissue Planets




December 8, 2006. For the first time, my Powershot A540 went to school to with me so I could take pictures of tissue slides under the microscope, to help my students review for their lab exam. To my delight, and even with many instances of poor focusing, my A540 still came through =D Never before did I think it possible that I could shoot cells through an ordinary compound microscope (sunlight and mirrors still the best!) with an ordinary digital camera.


And so allow me to share my excitement over my first microscope shots (aren't they cute??). And my joy at actually recognizing the types and parts of the tissues based on the textbook description hehe. Next time, will shoot corals under the stereoscope--something I saw for the first time the day before this. It's an even more fascinating landscape! I'm finding more and more reasons to love biology =D

Comments

  1. Manang KaiyenDecember 11, 2006 at 9:51 PM

    cool. =)

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  2. Jeneen GarciaDecember 11, 2006 at 10:57 PM

    oh you've got to try it! =D even just seeing a part of yourself under that microscope is something else ;-)

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  3. XXXX YYYYDecember 12, 2006 at 1:14 AM

    BEAUTIFUL!!!!

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  4. Jemi AquinoDecember 12, 2006 at 2:08 AM

    neen, you are the coolest teacher ever! none of my lab instructors ever gave us actual pics to study with.
    you go, girl!

    HUGS,
    jemi

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  5. Beryl BlackDecember 12, 2006 at 7:31 AM

    these are amazing! =)

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  6. Joy GoDecember 13, 2006 at 6:50 PM

    Wonderful!!!!

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  7. Jeneen GarciaDecember 15, 2006 at 3:13 AM

    thank you, thank you =) glad to know the joy of discovery is not mine alone =D hope to bring you more of the amazing sights that are part of my education ;-)

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  8. Joy GoDecember 15, 2006 at 9:46 AM

    You sure this isn't actually a shot of Jupiter taken through a telescope, and you aren't actually taking a Master's Degree in Astronomy? :-D

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  9. Jerome RodilDecember 17, 2006 at 4:49 PM

    Wow! I seriously thought these were planets. 8-)

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  10. Beryl BlackDecember 18, 2006 at 9:24 PM

    Me, too! =)

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  11. Jeneen GarciaDecember 19, 2006 at 12:06 AM

    hahaha! oops, you've discovered my secret! then again, to paraphrase walt whitman, isn't a single tissue made of the same stuff as the stars and the planets? ;-)

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  12. Jeneen GarciaDecember 19, 2006 at 12:07 AM

    so you mean you all thought these were amazing because you thought they were actual planets? =P

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  13. Beryl BlackDecember 19, 2006 at 12:21 AM

    sort of? =) amazing how these deceived me. :-)

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