This Ain’t No Shoulder Cam

Anyone looking at the photographs of a crab-louse recently captured by Mona Lisa Production is paralyzed by two conflicting thoughts: how beautiful the images are and how hideous a louse is. Despite one's initial revulsion to the physical details of these creepy creatures - every intimate wrinkle, hair and joint of the louse is magnified using an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) - the first thought eventually dominates. The stunning images reveal the minutiae of a world in which man had previously only scratched the surface.