In the Sifter’s third installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series, we look at all kinds of amazing. Every day somebody in the world does something amazing and it will bring joy and delight to those fortunate enough to witness it. Here are 20 kinds of amazing, forever immortalized in animated gif glory.…
Photograph by Cburnett on Wikipedia Melanism is an undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism. The word ‘melanism’ is deduced from a Greek word that means black pigment. Pseudo-melanism, also called abundism, is another variant of pigmentation, characterized by dark spots or enlarged stripes,…
GALACTIC MONSOON Photograph by BRET WEBSTER The incredible photograph above was recently featured as the Earth Science Picture of the Day. It shows the Milky Way stretching across the desert sky and a distant monsoon thunderstorm on the horizon. It was captured just outside of Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah.…
HARD WORK PAYS OFF Photograph by Reuters/Miyako City Office and Toru Hanai Photograph by Reuters/Miyako City Office and Toru Hanai Last March a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan causing unprecedented destruction and loss of life. As the country prepares to observe the one year anniversary, the difference is remarkable.…
MALE JAWFISH MOUTHBROODING OFFSPRING Photograph by STEVE KOVACS In this incredible photograph by Steve Kovacs, we see a male jawfish mouthbrooding it’s offspring. It was a finalist for the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest. Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals…
Photograph via Christophe Cauvy About 120 km (74.5 miles) northeast of Turin, Italy, lies a hamlet called Viganella. It’s a remote commune of a couple hundred German Buddhists situated at the bottom of a steep-sided Alpine valley, right up against the Swiss border. Every year from November 11th to February 2nd, the sun…
THE HIDDEN LIFE WITHIN Photographs via bloghistapercaso.blogspot.com In this incredible series of sculptures, artist Giuseppe Penone carefully removes the rings of growth to reveal the ‘sapling within’. By carving out the inside of a tree trunk and leaving the knots in place, they eventually emerge as tiny limbs shown above. Giuseppe…
Photograph by HANA PESUT @ SincerelyHana.com First spotted on Kottke.org; self-taught photographer and fellow Canadian, Hanah Pesut @ SincerelyHana.com, shot this fun and playful photo series entitled, Switcheroo. In this series, couples pose for shots first in their normal attire, and then swap clothes and attempt to mirror the original shot. It’s most…
SHENZHEN, CHINA, 30 YEARS LATER Top Photograph via Gaoloumi.com | Bottom Photograph by SSDPenguin on Wikimedia Commons Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China’s Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China’s first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Shenzhen’s modern cityscape…
NINETY MILE BEACH, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA Photograph via aureliusantoninus on Reddit The Ninety Mile Beach is a sandy stretch of south-eastern coastline of Victoria, Australia along the Gippsland Lakes region of East Gippsland on Bass Strait. The beach is just over 151 kilometres (94 mi) long running north-eastward from a spit near Port…
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