Giant Ginkgo

The how-to guide for photographers explains Frankel's techniques for relaying the wonders of science to colleagues and laypeople alike. Those already familiar with her photography will find Frankel's writing as compelling as her arresting images.

A Guggenheim fellow who spent years photographing landscape and architecture, Frankel strives to capture yeast colonies, hard drives, and stressed-out palladium membranes in the light in which she has always seen them – thought-provoking. But her audience is not limited to scientists.