I liked almost all of the snow pictures on the Boston Globe’s Big Picture yesterday, but the parhelion (second from the top, direct link) is my favourite.
Category Archives: Photography
Kolibris
This MetaFilter thread on Rufous Hummingbirds has a link to some excellent hummingbird photos by Tony Markle. I wish hummingbirds were native to Germany, I would love to be able to watch them in my own garden…
People, Places, and Nature
The Boston Globe‘ Big Picture features photos from National Geographic‘s Photo Contest 2010 today.
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010:
“National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well. National Geographic was again kind enough to let me choose some of their entries from 2010 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers.”
There are some really breathtaking shots there, plus one of a cuddly brown bear. I like the one of Ki Gompa as well.
Eye Candy
Take a look at these animated MRIs of a pineapple, an orange, and a bushel of bananas:
Animated MRI Scans of Fruits are Hypnotic, High in Fiber.
Update: Many more of these can be found at Insideinsides.
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Anthology of Deep Sea Squids. Amazing foootage!
Luke Jerram’s Glass Microbiology:
“These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks’ beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity.”
Links via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Frohe Ostern!
We had some visitors over the long weekend and visited the butterfly garden in Sayn and then went to see the birds of prey at Burg Maus yesterday.
Links are only available in German, sorry:
- Sayn, Garten der Schmetterlinge (kein Direktlink wegen Frames, sorry)
- Adler- und Falkenhof auf Burg Maus
André took some awesome photos, the best of which you can see on his Flickr page. Here’s a little preview:
