MOOSE IN THE MIST Photograph by Steve Wall In this amazing capture by Steve Wall, we see a majestic moose shrouded in the early morning mist. Steve, who was on a camping trip at the time, recalls being woken up in the early morning by distant grunts: “I threw on some clothes,…
A CANYON OF FIRE ON THE SUN Photograph by NASA/SDO NASA/SDO – A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon…
THE SKELETON LEAF Photograph by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen In this interesting close-up by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen, we see what remains of a leaf that was likely consumed by an insect and is now slowly decomposing. According to reddit’s resident biologist Unidan: “The reason this skeletal like pattern remains in the leaves is due to…
THE WATER VORTEX Photograph by MANUEL M. ALMEIDA Website | Flickr | 500px | Twitter | Tumblr | Google+ In this striking sunrise photograph by Manuel M. Almedia we see the Bufadero de la Garita in Telde, Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands. According to VisitCanaryIslands.org, the phenomenon comes from a ‘complex…
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. An international organisation with 20 Member States, the ESA in its current form was created in 1975. Since then they have shared amazing research and images for the world to learn from. With almost 12,000 high-resolution images available through their website, their extensive archive…
GATEWAY TO ANOTHER DIMENSION Photograph via llamapen on Reddit In this amazing capture, we see the famous Gateway Arch monument in St. Louis, Missouri, enshrouded in low passing clouds. The image was submitted to Reddit by user llamapen who says his father took the photograph from the 40th floor of One Metropolitan…
Earlier this month, National Geographic launched their photo-sharing platform, Your Shot (NGYourShot.com), which allows photography fans to connect with photographers and editors around virtual assignments and get direct feedback on their work. The platform’s first assignment invites photographers to share three images that convey, ‘how photography can help us explore our changing world’. At…
STORM’S A-BREWIN’ Photograph by Robert Edmonds / StormChaseGuide.com Storm chaser and NASA Fellow Robert Edmonds captured this jaw-dropping photo of a tornado in Loreburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. Edmonds says the storm produced multiple funnels, including the unique horizontal roll vortex at the top right, before finally producing a tornado. If you’re interested in…
A PLACE TO PONDER Photograph by Warachai Krengwirat/Photos of Thailand Seen here is a beautiful outlook point at Sai-Thong National Park in Chaiyaphum province, Thailand. For those not too afraid of heights, this would be an amazing place to reflect and ponder or to just soak in the beauty of our planet.…
A BOWL OF RAIN Photograph by Eurico Zimbres In this brilliantly timed photograph by Eurico Zimbres, we see a perfectly aligned rain cloud seeming to fill the large bowl at the National Congress of Brazil building in Brasilia. The National Congress of Brazil is the legislative body of Brazil’s federal government. As…
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