Issue 07

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↑ Masovian Landscape Park, Warsaw, Poland A cuckoo wasp rests balanced on a grass stem. These brilliantly colored parasitic wasps lay eggs in other insects’ nests, and the larva feed on the host species’ larva and stored pollen. 84-frame focus stack captured with a 5× microscope objective.

The Art of Smartphone Macro Photography

Words and Images by Jan Stolarczyk

Macro photography is often associated with expensive cameras, large lenses, and complex equipment. However, I’ve discovered that the tiny wonders around us can be revealed with far more accessible tools.

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The Cost of a Changing Arctic

Images by Katie Orlinsky, Interview by Miriam Stein Battles

Few photographers working today navigate the intersection of visual storytelling and science with as much clarity and conviction as Katie Orlinsky.

Responsibility in the Age of Digital Discovery

Words and Images by Matt Payne

On an ordinary July weekend morning in 2013, I hiked into Ice Lake Basin in Colorado and found myself completely alone.

Harnessing Patterns for Conservation

Images by Jon McCormack, Interview by Andrew Todhunter

In the introduction to his forthcoming book, “Patterns: Art of the Natural World,” photographer and Apple VP Jon McCormack describes an approach to photography in which the form “becomes not an act of capture, but communion.”