I am a retired surgical pathology prosector/assistant and laboratory manager who has turned his microscope to exploring microscopic life in freshwater, brackish, marine, ponds, rivers, and estuary biotopes on Long Island New York. I concentrate on ciliates and flagellates with a lesser interest in invertebrates. For imaging I use an Olympus BH2 with Nomarski differential interference contrast, a Zeiss standard with Hoffman modulation contrast, and a Zeiss Photomicroscope III with phase contrast. Videos and photomicrographs are captured on my Samsung cell phone.