Extraordinary Photograph of Sea Water Magnified 25 Times | In Our Industry and Hobby, We Often Find Ourselves Diving into Underwater and Macro Photography, Whether It Be for Fish, Corals, Plants, or Other Forms of Aquatic Life. This Is… In Our Industry and Hobby, We Often Find Ourselves Diving into Underwater and Macro Photography, Whether It Be for Fish, Corals, Plants, or Other Forms of Aquatic Life. This Is… in Blog by Travis Fillmen Sunday, April 19 th , 2015

In our industry and hobby, we often find ourselves diving into underwater and macro photography, whether it be for fish, corals, plants, or other forms of aquatic life. This is one such instance where David Liittschwager, an accomplished award-winning photographer for National Geographic, has created an image showing the microfauna that exists within a single drop of seawater!

By magnifying the seawater sample 25 times, Liittschwager was able to capture bacteria, worms, fish eggs, crab larva, diatoms, and a whole host of other aquatic life – and you thought it was only salt that made seawater salty!

Here is a breakdown of the organisms in this shot: