Oliver G Pike
Microphotography
Oliver Pike used a home-made set-up for taking very highly magnified images. He used a microscope set up on a bench with a light source and a simple camera (see Cameras/Baby Brownie), or sometimes his cine camera.
![Microphotographs](photos/roundmicros.jpg)
He was very interested in the tiny creatures that live in water, in the minute detail of plants, and in microscopic fossils.
Clockwise from top - Sponge Spicules, Fairy Fly, Foraminifera, Diatoms.
Sponge Spicules make up the structure of most sponges.
The "Fairy Flies"
are really very tiny wasps: their wings have bristles.
Foraminifera are protozoa that have hard
shells: they are very useful in geology.
Diatoms are phytoplankton
and they produce silica structures: these five are Pleurosigma formosum.