Publisher's Synopsis
Every picture has the wow-factor in Close-up, a book full of amazing images created using scanning electron microscopes (SEM). Animals, plants and crystals are revealed in a whole new light in a series of beautiful photographs which go beyond the realm of the scientific to be admired for their own sake. At this level of magnification, reality can be quite surprising and even commonplace items become things of great beauty. Pollen grains, the bane of hayfever sufferers, become dramatic sculptures. The underside of a leaf is an impenetrable thicket of spines and the scales on a mosquito's back resemble the feathers of an exotic bird. This book is guaranteed to make you look and make you ask questions: what is that? Where is it from? What does it do? "
