During his nearly two-decade career, British photographer Nick Veasey has been using his own superpowers to peer inside everything from insects to MP3 players to jumbo jets–and create stunning images of their innards.

And like any accomplished superhero (or artist), Veasey makes it look easy.

To view one of his X-ray photos is to think the trick was simply in choosing the proper-size machine for the job and rather lazily pushing the button. In this scenario, the insect and the MP3 player were no-brainers. And as for the passenger plane, the difficulty was just in locating an X-ray machine big enough to use on the thing (or, a more imaginative viewer might think, to shrink the plane–complete with a crew member or two–down enough to fit into a doctor’s office).

via cnet

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