Infected
Knowing the truth of what this image is transformed the beautiful aspects of it into something quite icky. This is a shot of a Ascaris, AKA a parasite that lives in the small intestines. It is also known as “small intestinal roundworms.” And a female, to be precise, magnified at 150. Is that image starting to look icky now? It was taken by Massimo Brizi from Firenza, Italy. Brizi began his journey to photographing the world’s mini wonders by initially photographing insects, and then kept opting for smaller and smaller subjects. Now he mainly focuses on micro-organisms of the water.
