Sunday, November 29, 2009

What Kind Of Flower Is In The Vw Bug

raffle and other benefits

has finally begun the Christmas market. Until then, somehow ne dry spell, but of course I have also overcome with various parties. This was the first weekend of mulled wine market or actually just the first day of which a major win. And in the truest sense of the word.

Not only are we back to the delicious - or well ... delicious he is only after the second cup or so - could indulge again mulled wine, no, it was still a funny party with raffle announced. And since there were no rivets, there was also nothing to lose. So I got myself a couple of tickets and won a car for a weekend. * Cheers * This win gave it exactly 1x and I've won. juhuuu!

The remaining lots were drinking vouchers, but were also fed to their natural destination. :) And because it is even better with more people celebrating, but there were no friends, I've just met a few new. Too, was again very funny and insightful. And sometimes it is good that the city has a catchment area across the border ...
Well, after all, was enough to celebrate the same for the whole weekend. But the Christmas market is also still a few days. And - sometimes I have to say, unfortunately, really - who has been marked during the week ...

Thursday, November 5, 2009

All 493 Pokemon Images

The art of photography on board




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Living plankton - these are the creatures that live in the water column - is usually translucent and colorful. In order to photograph plankton live, so that the human eye is an impressive way, I needed a sophisticated technology.


on the research vessel "Meteor" I put up a Zeiss microscope with camera and sches Auflichtblitz. Here the laboratory:





From a visual work I got a hollow-ground lenses from 4 cm in diameter, there were optical glasses, which were finely polished. There were also strong microscopic magnification (objective 25x) no slip traces of the glass to see. The flash was tilted in the length of the flash is controlled by the TTL light measurement. Brightness and color of the background corresponded to a piece of plastic film in the distance below the hollow lens.


Here is a schematic drawing of the system:


from samples filtered water I had a few milliliters of very fine (membrane filter) and dropped onto the concave lens, and into it also cleaned out the animals. It was alive and not opaque (opaque) become as it would happen to the dead animals. After photography I have preserved the photographed animal either for later, academic work, or set back into the sea.

The Photographic microscope. The animal is on a slide in the drop,
the hollow lens I got later.


for the financial support of this work, I thank the German Research Foundation (DFG), and for the support and devotion to my work many seafarers and colleagues. The original slides (Kodak Ektachrome) are located, including the protocols in the Sea Museum Stralsund (Dr. Thiel).


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39 Weeks And Doctor Stretched My Cervix

plankton larva of a polychaete worm in the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean, east of Somalia








Most worms live in the water - and only in sea. Ok, I do not mean the worms who are parasitic in the intestines or in other places in animals, but the "wild" as the zoologist . Say Most are tied to the ocean floor, but their eggs, they can be incorporated into the water, slip out of them not new worms but first larvae, so young. These larvae are found in the plankton, can be driven by the water currents and carried by the water turbulence.


This worm larva I have a drop Meerwassser held in the shell and shown in many photos the movements. It was certainly painful for the animal to want to be in the little drops of water - where its habitat is still of infinite space - so it has probably turned so much and tortuous.

I hope that you still affect the beauty, and then would be the victim of the larvae might have been helpful for the recognition by us humans.