Brightfield Technique

Dr. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps

2009

Mallacoota, Australia

Specimen: Sexual Attraction in Spirogyra

Technique: Brightfield

Mr. Haris Antonopoulos

2011

Athens, Greece

Specimen: Stink bug eggs

Technique: Brightfield illumination

Dr. Jerzy Gubernator

2010

Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw

Wroclaw, Poland

Specimen: Spirogyra

Technique: Brightfield

Mr. Michael Dingley

2004

Hazelbrook, Australia

Specimen: Micrasterias, each one-celled Desmid consists of two half cells that are mirror images of one another

Technique: Brightfield, 50x Objective

Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer

2011

Kiel, Germany

Specimen: Living diatom Mediopyxis helysia, showing the cell nuclei and golden chloroplasts.

Technique: Brightfield

Ms. Yanping Wang

2010

Beijing Planetarium

Beijing, China

Specimen: Seeds of wild flowers

Technique: Brightfield reflected light

Mr. Harold Taylor

2004

Kensworth, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK

Specimen: Poppy flowerhead showing immature seeds

Technique: Brightfield (in reverse), 40x Objective