Two recent posts on Reddit this week (here and here) showed grocery stores with some beautiful and artful displays of vegetables. That made me curious to know what other amazing vegetable displays were out there on the glorious Internet. A quick search on Flickr revealed not only supermarket vegetable art, but a variety of…
EARTHQUAKE MOUNTAIN DUST Photograph by Roberto and Adrian Maquez (via NBC Sand Diego) The 2010 Baja California earthquake (also known as 2010 Easter earthquake, 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake, or 2010 El Mayor – Cucapah earthquake) was an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude on the moment magnitude scale. It started 26 kilometers…
The Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata), or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized, East Asian perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan. Its most recognizable feature is its brilliant coloring. The adult male has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye…
Andre Ermolaev is a Russian photographer who takes incredible aerial and landscape photographs. In his series entitled Iceland. River., Andre shows us the beautiful environment of Iceland from above. The rivers and streams shown, which are carrying sediment from volcanoes and glaciers give the photos the incredible colours and textures. The photographs could easily…
WHAT A SPACE SHUTTLE COCKPIT LOOKS LIKE Photograph by Ben Cooper @ LaunchPhotography.com | Prints Available In this incredible photo by Ben Cooper, we see the highly sophisticated flight deck (cockpit) of the NASA space shuttle, Endeavour. This is just one of the amazing photos from Ben’s photo tour of the…
ATOP MT. HEHUAN Photograph by Michael Liao (Michaelioa27 on Flickr) Hehuanshan (also called Joy Mountain) is a 3,416 metres (11,207 ft) high mountain in Central Taiwan. The peak lies on the boundaries of Nantou and Hualien counties and is within the Taroko Gorge National Park. Hehuanshan is a popular destination for…
THE 97,000 ft LIFTOFF Photograph by Joerg Mitter/Red Bull Stratos On July 25 2012, Felix Baumgartner completed the final milestone remaining before he attempts to achieve his dream of becoming the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall. According to preliminary data, his test jump from a 5.3…
Located in the fertile agricultural region of Argentina’s ‘Pampas’ is a guitar shaped forest made up of over 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees. At over a kilometer in length (2/3 of a mile) the guitar shaped forest is quite visible for passing planes and satellites above. While it’s sheer size and scale is impressive…
A WALL OF FALL Photograph by Eric Forey (Kala___ on Flickr) | Prints Available Nothing signals the transition from Summer to Autumn like the changing colour of the leaves. In this beautiful photograph we see a lone window surrounded by ivy. For those that were under the impression that ivy leaves…
Photograph by Jakub Polomski | polomski.art.pl The Tatra Mountains, also known as the ‘Tatras’ or ‘Tatra’, are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. The peaks of Gerlach (Slovakia) and Rysy (Poland) represent the highest points in each country. Below we will take a photo tour of this…
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