when i was maybe twelve years old, i got a birthday gift from a family friend. i still have it today, and it's provided me with years of weird, nerdy enjoyment.

the gift was a hand-held micronta microscope that magnifies 30 times. i'd run around the house and look at everything up close.



recently, i found a discussion on a photography website somewhere about taking pictures through the eyepiece of microscopes. i tried it, and came up with these photos. they aren't the best because, obviously it's not an easy task. i had to hold the lens of my camera up against the eyepiece and then just hope for the best lighting and focus. i could adjust the focus by moving the lens slighty away or closer to the eyepiece, but even then i was still winging it.


Yellow Thread


Skin from the inside. See the pores?


A mosquito larva I found in my pond.


A hair follicle and red thread.


My green AE shirt.


I found some eggs something had laid on a plant on my deck.


The eggs through the microscope.


This is what hatched out of the eggs. Hundreds of these tiny caterpillars.

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