Microscopic Photography - Otago Schist II

Kamen Engel is a Christchurch-based geologist and photographer. He captures these beautiful images by photographing paper-thin slices of rock through a microscope, revealing a hidden world of minerals. The final product is actually composed of many (often hundreds) of smaller images seamlessly stitched together to produce a kaleidoscopic glimpse into what our eyes can't normally see. 

Schist is a metamorphic rock, which means that it has been transformed by heat and pressure within the Earth. In this case, the minerals have been pushed into thin layers.

• A4 unframed photographic print