FRAGILE WORLD
Mar 11, 2021
4 minutes
Words: Richard Else
Images:
Colin Prior
I am mesmerised. The two computer screens in front of me update every few seconds in hypnotic sequence. They show a magnified image that resembles the surface of a planet taken from a space probe. The process continues in silence; I notice the tension of the three men involved.
Minutes later, it’s over, and the image zooms out to reveal not an alien landscape, but a perfectly photographed razorbill egg. But there’s another surprise. I have never seen a bird’s egg in such detail, with all the subtlety of its brown patterning, revealing a luminous,
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