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A Photographer Captures Nature In Mind-Boggling Detail - Science Friday

A Photographer Captures Nature In Mind-Boggling Detail - Science Friday

Update: 2025-09-10
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If you’ve flipped through an issue of National Geographic or scrolled through their social media, and caught a stunningly detailed photo of a tiny creature—like one where you can make out the hairs on a honeybee’s eyeballs, or the exact contours of a hummingbird’s forked tongue—you have probably seen the work of Anand Varma. He’s an award-winning science photographer, a National Geographic Explorer, and the founder of WonderLab, a storytelling studio in Berkeley, California.

Varma speaks with Host Flora Lichtman and takes us behind the lens to show what it takes to capture iconic images of creatures that are so often overlooked.

Guest: Anand Varma is a science photographer, a National Geographic Explorer, and the founder of WonderLab. He’s based in Berkeley, California.

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A Photographer Captures Nature In Mind-Boggling Detail - Science Friday

A Photographer Captures Nature In Mind-Boggling Detail - Science Friday