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“Photographing the World’s Rarest Fish”
Olin Feuerbacher’s photograph, “Devils Hole Pupfish,” is remarkable.
For starters, the subject is not any old fish but the rarest fish in the world. Fewer than 200 of the diminutive Devils Hole pupfish currently survive. Their habitat? A seemingly bottomless cavern in an oasis of geothermal springs in the searing desert of western Nevada, within sight of Death Valley National Park.
Then there is the photo’s composition and its exacting detail. One single pupfish, less than an inch in length, turns to the camera to show off its teeny-tiny fish scales and feathery-looking tailfin, and seems to look up at the camera with what might be described as … a smile.
For National Parks Conservation Association, as part of special event in the U.S. Senate Rotunda.