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Marek Miś poland
Photo © Marek Miś
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Hunting hydra
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entry description
The image presents small hunting hydra. Inside its body we can see just ingested small cladoceran. Next to hydra there is colonial rotifer Conochilus sp. The photograph was taken with the microscope using polarized light and dark field illumination. The magnification is 40Xabout the photographer
I am a biologist by education. I am not professional photographer but the photography is my passion. My favourite kind of photography is takin g photos of small and tiny subjects. My photographic real passion is photomicrography. I use various special techniques of illumination such as polarized light, dark field, bright field and mixed techniques. I take photographs both living microorganisms and microcrystals of various substances. I espacially love microcrystals photographying because they give a great opportunity of my own interpretation the image seen in field of view. Apart from absolute abstractional images I look for such images which remind the parts of our big, ordinary world. I love sharing my way of seeing of the microworlds with other people.back to gallery
