Science Photographer Anand Varma Releases Invisible Wonders

Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 9 p.m.

b'Have you ever wished you could slow the frenetic buzz of a hummingbird\\u2019s wings? Get so close to a honeybee you can look it straight in the eye? Or see 24 hours on a busy street corner in a single frame? You will be able to \\u2013 in Invisible Wonders: Photographs of the Hidden World an astonishing visual experience designed to show readers things they could never see\\u2014if not for the extraordinary power of photography. From the microscopic to the cosmic, from minuscule elements to intricate life-forms, acclaimed National Geographic scientist-photographer Anand Varma and more than a hundred of his colleagues, explore the camera artistry of Size, Time, Light, and Focus to reveal the unseen. Images like Martin Oeggerli\\u2019s brilliant micrograph of the pollen inside a flower or Roni Hendrawan\\u2019s image that reveals the intricate cracks in a grain of rice, exposes a world of wonderful surprises.'