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Special Effects Whiz Aces Science Photography Contest

The line between science and fiction just got even more blurry. Chris Parks, an artist who worked on the gorgeous, watery special effects in Darren Aronofsky's weirdo time-travel movieThe Fountain, is also a science photographer whose picture of plankton swimming into the eye of a needle won 5th place in Nikon's microscopic photography contest. Sometimes it takes a fantasist to make the microscopic world beautiful.

More winners of Nikon's "Small World Contest"



12:20 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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