His job is to actually really stare at octopus, seahorse, jellyfish

Pale Octopus Octopus pallidus Specimen No. 9; mantle is 4.5 inches long; Moonlight Bay Resort, Rye, Victoria, Australia “Nature loves to hide” — a famous quote by Heraclitus

Liittschwager’s response: “I want to see.”

“That license to stare that photographers have? I’ve always liked that,” David Liittschwager tells NPR. “You’re rarely given the permission to really, really look at somebody. My job is to actually really stare at octopus, seahorse, jellyfish.”

Liittschwager , a photographer for National Geographic , spent 12 years photographing octopuses, seahorses and jellyfish at more than 28 locations around the globe with his portable 500-pound photo studio. Western Spiny Seahorse Hippocampus angustus Specimen Nos. 78, 79 male and female 3.25 inches tall; Seahorse World, Beauty Point, Tasmania, Australia In this book, Octopus, Seahorse, Jellyfish , which features essays written by best-selling science writers Elizabeth Kolbert, Jennifer Holland and Olivia Judson, Liittschwager captures more than […]

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