Nikon Small World

Parks is a wildlife photographer and cameraman, specializing in capturing the very small, especially marine and freshwater microplankton. The image was captured as one of a series of pictures created to help illustrate the size of marine microplankton while on an expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

This image was created using specially developed optics built by Parks to enable three dimensional filming of marine microplankton. It incorporates equipment from a 150 year old microscope.

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