CURRENT ISSUE: Micscape Magazine, exploring the miniature world.

'Life on the dock' - a book - Michael Konrad (USA) describes his new book on coastal marine life which has just been published in paperback.

Universal stages for foraminifera - Jay Phillips (USA) presents both simple and more complex designs of stages to study these organisms. (In Acrobat® pdf format.)

A golden age for amateur microscopy? - Andy Chick (UK) argues that we are in an age were amateurs can be in the forefront of some aspects of optical microscopy.

Metallic flies in need of identification. Close-up - part 2 - Anthony Thomas (Canada) continues his studies of a blowfly; illustrated with striking photographs taken using a macro set-up and stacking techniques. (In Acrobat® pdf format.)

Slide maker “J.A.” probably John Atkinson, 1842-1901 - Brian Stevenson (USA) describes and illustrates aspects of this slide mounter's life and work and identifies him as the maker of previously unattributed papered slides. (In Acrobat pdf format.)

Mary Ann Booth, 1843-1922 - Brian Stevenson (USA) describes and illustrates aspects of this famous American female scientist's work including her slide preparations. (In Acrobat pdf format.)

Richard Leach Maddox, 1816-1902 - Brian Stevenson (USA) describes and illustrates aspects of the life and work of a man who 'played important roles in the development of photomicrography'. (In Acrobat pdf format.)

Microscopy-UK New feature: SEM gallery showing the work of Dennis Kunkel. The Mic-UK site founders, Maurice Smith and David Walker, have always admired the SEM work of Dennis Kunkel; his website also started at a similar date to ours. Dennis has kindly agreed for Mic-UK to host a selection of his images and a gallery can be accessed by the new 'SEM Gallery' button on top menu bar. With thanks to Maurice Smith for liaising to set this up.

New book: 'Bacteria: the Benign, the Bad and the Beautiful' by Dr Trudy Wassenaar has recently been published by Wiley, details here. With thanks to the author for the information.

'How do geckos climb. Fascinating images reveal climbing abilities of geckos and spiders Helium ion technology allows imaging of objects in their natural state'. A fascinating new study, with thanks to Zeiss, Germany for the press release.

China Scientific Book Services have an English language website with online ordering for a wide range of books, including an extensive selection of regional books on diatoms and other algae. Some are in English, others with English summaries and Latin names and index. With thanks to the website for the information.

November 2011 articles written by students for
the 'Principles and Applications of Photomacrography' course
offered in the
Biomedical Photographic Communications (BPC) program
at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), NY State, USA.

Micscape Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all the students over the years for sharing their enthusiasm and skills on such a wonderful variety of topics. Writing an article for Micscape initially formed part of their course as an assignment, which was a neat idea originally proposed by Ted Kinsman the course instructor in 2004 and repeated in most following years. Thanks to Ted for all the work behind the scenes to make this happen. Also thanks to Michael Peres, the dept. head (and course instructor 2009) for his introduction and for maintaining the department's generous collaboration over the years.

BPC Program Overview by Professor Michael Peres, department head. Visit Professor Peres' website

Turritella agate - Johanna E Forsh (pdf)	Doing deep stacks of hairy specimens - Josh Marrah (pdf)
Blue Morpho butterfly (Morpho peledes) - Gillian Gail	Woodlouse "sow bug", Trachelipus rathkii - Emily Morse (pdf)
What is petrified wood? Is it wood or stone? - Tiffany Heard (pdf)	Fruit and vegetable seeds - Abby Skapin (pdf)
Siamese fighting fish - Daniel A Jones	Designing a macro imaging solution. Photographing butterflies - Tim Tiebout (pdf)
Sea urchins - Rachael Landrie (pdf)	Sea anemone - Tessa Tintle (pdf)
Fetal pig skeleton, cleared and stained - Shelby Leeman (pdf)	Photographic exploration of sea glass - Josephine Wyman (pdf)
Alcian Blue, Alizarin Red, chameleon embryo - Liz Marchiondo (pdf)

Click below to view previous RIT student articles

November 2004	November 2006
November 2007	November 2008
November 2009	November 2010