94 PICTURING MIRACLES 



and the forming of the new fertile seed; all remained 

 hidden from the eye and camera lens. 



Dead stained sections had been made of these 

 microscopic life processes and still pictures made of 

 them; but staining, which killed them, may have 

 produced changes, not in life, and it could not be 

 known just how true they were to life conditions. 



My first attempts to solve these mysteries were 

 crude. I bought a binocular microscope of low 

 power, thinking the camera lens could look into one 

 eye piece while my eye at the other watched what 

 was going on. This gave me up to twenty times mag- 

 nification, not nearly enough except for small flow- 

 ers, which I could photograph direct in the camera 

 by similar methods. 



Dr. Harper Goodspeed, of the Botany Depart- 

 ment of the University of California, was in Yo- 

 semite at the time. He became very much interested 

 in what I was doing and told me if I would work at 

 the University that fall he could arrange for my use 

 a laboratory and all equipment he had. This I did 

 and worked six weeks with his help, the first week 

 with no results. I could not get my picture sharp. I 

 stopped taking pictures and commenced experiment- 

 ing with many sorts of combinations of lenses and 

 methods, trying to get an image of a grain of pollen 

 about a third of an inch in diameter in the camera, 



