Her videos look like lava lamps. Her stills look like abstract art. But the stunning subjects Sally Warring (@pondlife_pondlife) captures are residents of New York City’s pond waters. Hooking up her smartphone to a microscope, Sally, who’s a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, documents microorganisms that she’s collected in water samples from Central Park and other urban bodies of water at 100 or higher magnitude. Sally’s Pondlife project aims to educate nonscientists about single cellular life. “My idea was to show people that these organisms have all sorts of complex behaviors that we usually associate with more complex life forms, like animals and plants,” she says. “We’re living amongst them, and they’re living amongst us.”
Video by @pondlife_pondlife