A Drop Of Milk
Taking a decent photo in the dark without cumbersome equipment was next to impossible before Harold Edgerton rigged a milk dropper alongside a timer and a camera of his own invention. Just as futile was the attempt to capture a fleeting moment with a camera. However, Edgerton began experimenting with a method that would forever alter photography in the 1950s in his MIT lab.
A Drop Of Milk
Swimming Hippo
Wilderness—true, untouched wilderness—is shrinking worldwide because seven billion people take up space. Even in Africa, lions and elephants are losing space. That makes Michael Nichols’ photo special. Nichols and National Geographic Society explorer Michael Fay trekked 2,000 miles from the Congo to Gabon on Africa’s west coast. Nichols photographed hippopotamuses swimming in the midnight Atlantic Ocean there. Hippos spend most of their time in the water, but they prefer inland rivers or swamps to the crashing sea, so few had seen this before.
Swimming Hippo