THE SMALLEST PAGE ON THE WEB (introducing microscopic pond life)

POND LIFE IDENTIFICATION KIT (guide for identifying small freshwater life-forms)

THE MICROPOLITAN MUSEUM (Overview of my photomicrography)

THE INSTITUTE FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE LESS THAN ONE MILLIMETER - microorganisms in 3D!

Fresh water

WATER FLEA ANATOMY - all their features in close up
CONOCHILUS - a colony of rotifers
GALLERY OF ROTIFERS - the various designs of 'wheel animalcules'
SPIROSTOMUM - nature's fastest contraction
SUCTORIA - ciliates in disguise
WATER MITES - submerged arachnids
GALLERY OF DESMIDS - slide show of delicate algae
STARS OF THE MARSHES - drawings of spectacular tiny algae
BELL ANIMALCULES - ciliates on a stalk (my first web article!)
AMOEBAS - are more than just 'blobs'

Marine

ART DECO DIATOMS - delicate shapes of sessile diatoms
THE CARPENTERS RULE DIATOM - a very strange diatom
FORAM GALLERY - portraits of Mediterranean foraminifera
RADIOLARIA - protozoan glass architecture
BARNACLES - portraying their larval stages
BRISTLE WORMS - and their larvae
MARINE DIATOMS - an illustrated introduction
OIKOPLEURA'S FISHING HOUSE - a very strange Larvacean
OBELIA - the double life of a tiny hydroid
SEA SQUIRTS - our distant cousins
COMB JELLIES - jewels of the sea
THE MYSTERY OF THE FOAM ON THE SEA SHORE - Phaeocystis
GALLERY OF ECHINODERMS - The larva of starfish, sea urchin and brittlestar
FERTILISED EGG - and other finds from marine plankton
FOLICULINA - a marine Ciliate

Insects and spiders

THE CRABS - the crab louse, the story of a truly attractive pet
SPIDER LEGS - what we can discover on one spider's leg
THE ZEBRA SPIDER IN 3D! - the attractive little jumping spider
THE DADDY-LONG-LEGS-SPIDER IN 3D! - the enigmatic indoor spider in close detail

Techniques

GETTING MICRO ORGANISMS IN FOCUS - the use of mouse over images with different focus levels
EASY TO MAKE CONTRAST FILTERS - dark-field, oblique and Rheinberg illumination
D.I.Y.D.I.C - How to create Nomarski-like effects with simple filter techniques
THE CLICK BEETLE DISMANTLED - How these beetles jump

Latest articles

VOLVOX - one of the 7 wonders of the microworld
Some inconspicuous free swimming branching colonies of bi-flagellated freshwater protists
MICRO GASTRONOMY - reconstructions of the diners of microorganisms
VAN LEEUWENHOEK'S SECRET REVEALED - a remarkable discovery
HIDDEN LIFE IN TIDEPOOLS - marine macro photography
CROC THE CILIATE AND THE LITTLE GREEN HEART - a microbial Fairy Tale