THE LONE FISHERMAN Photograph by Taro Taylor In this beautiful and slightly haunting photography we see a lone fisherman out on the water as Tavurvur, an active volcano near Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, releases plumes of ash and pumice into the twilight sky. Mount Tavurvur is the most well known…
THE VENEZUELAN POODLE MOTH Photograph by Arthur Anker on Flickr The photograph above, taken by zoologist Arthur Anker, has been making the rounds online, as the bizarre creature looks straight out of a fantasy world. The moth was spotted in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela’s Canaima National Park several years…
THE PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER Photograph by David Kingham on Flickr | Prints Available In this stunning capture we see the Perseids meteor shower as observed from the Snowy Range in Wyoming. The photograph was taken the night of August 11th by professional photographer David Kingham. Kingham explains: “I went out to…
Photograph by MBARI Macropinna microstoma, commonly known as Barreleye, are small deep sea fish found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. What you might first mistake as its eyes (just above the small mouth) are actually the fish’s olfactory organs (the equivalent of nostrils). Believe it or not, the…
AN X-RAY OF A STINGRAY Photograph by Ken Jones The photograph above is an x-ray of a freshwater stingray species discovered in 2011 in the Amazon rain forest. The discovery was made by the research team of Nathan Lovejoy, a biologist at the University of Toronto in Scarborough; and Marcelo Rodrigues…
André Kuipers is a physician and ESA astronaut. He is the second Dutch person to ever fly in space and the first Dutch astronaut to ever return to space. On Flickr, Kuipers has shared over three hundred of his amazing photographs from space. From Auroras and the Milky Way, to never seen before views…
A SEE OF CLOUDS IN BULGARIA Photograph by cellskey on Reddit Redditor cellskey took this incredible night time photograph from a cabin on a cliff in Bulgaria. According to cellskey’s comments, the photo was taken from the Okoltchitsa Monument in Vratshanski Balkan, Vratsa, Bulgaria. The exact coordinates are: 43.152248,23.586059 The picture…
Photographer cock_a_doodle_doo on Flickr took these incredible photographs of an abandoned building complex in the Jhongjheng District of Badouzi, Taiwan. With the man-made structures completely deserted, nature has slowly started to overtake the concrete buildings. As the density of trees continues to grow it will be fascinating to see what this place looks like…
TURTLE RIDING A JELLYFISH Photograph by Super Jolly @ DivePhotoGuide.com In this remarkable shot we see a toy turtle catching a ride on a jellyfish. Initially some thought it was a real turtle, but turtles are actually known to prey on jellyfish, so Reddit user AmbiguousStatement did some detective work and…
THE MOSS COVERED FOREST OF YAKUSHIMA Photograph by Balu991 on deviantART Yakushima is one of the Osumi Islands and has an area of about 500 km² and a population of roughly 15,000. It lies to the south of Kyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is covered in dense forest noted especially…
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