Minnehaha Falls

[guppiecat]

I finally figured out how to deal with the photo database crash from a few months ago... so I can start posting photos again. This is the set from the Minnehaha Falls, taken on July 18th.

It is worth noting that I was not set up for the sort of high-speed macro stuff that I wanted to do. Next time I'll try to do better.




Statues look better in black and white










This would have looked SO cool if I had had my tripod and a few light stands with me.








They had crawdads!

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm just croggled that there are little freshwater lobsters, under whatever name variant people prefer, living here! That's so cool!

(I've also grepped through many drops of pond water with a microscope, as a child, without ever finding anything beyond the most mundane things. I seem to have a modest talent for not finding wildlife.)

[guppiecat]

How were you collecting the water? You find more stuff around other stuff. The muck at the bottom is particularly good, but you have to dilute it for slides.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried finding stuff in pond water for more than 40 years now, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember exactly where my samples came from. It seems entirely logical to me NOW that I shouldn't be trying to get "clean water" out of the pond when I'm looking for stuff in it, but I wouldn't promise I would have thought that way back then.

[7ivy7.livejournal.com]

I love these! Droplet! Crayfish! You are the best! If it were not for my broken ankle I'd be off to the Falls this moment. Do visit again, maybe spring when the falls are rushing?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

Can you make stereopticon inserts?

[guppiecat]

Huh. I suppose it would be possible. Unless someone is doing it commercially though, I think it would be quite labor intensive, as you'd have to cut the glass slides and then do a print-and-transfer onto them.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

What is a stereopticon insert?

K.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Got me. I was hoping you could tell me (or Josh).

[guppiecat]

I'm assuming that it's a slide that you put into the "magic lantern". I don't know much about it, I just googled "stereopticon", extrapolated how it probably worked, how my photos could be converted and then made a guess.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

These are swell! Nice job.

K.

[guppiecat]

I'm glad you like them. I'm sorry it took so long to get them up.