Photograph by MORTEN KOLDBY ‘Animal Portraits’ is an ongoing project by Morten Koldby, who plans to create a coffee-table book of some sort once he has enough portraits. What started out as a weekend project has blossomed into a wonderful series. Animals are captured giving human-like facial expressions; some look nervous, others look arrogant,…
IRIDESCENT RAINBOW CLOUD Photograph by ESTHER HAVENS Description by NASA: Pictured behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The above image was taken just after the picturesque sight…
CARACOL FALLS, BRAZIL Photograph by TIAGO FIOREZE Caracol Falls, or Cascata do Caracol, is a 426-foot (130 meter) waterfall about 4.35 miles (7.00 km) from Canela, Brazil in Caracol State Park (Parque do Caracol). It is formed by the Caracol River and cuts out of basalt cliffs in the Serra Geral mountain…
THE BLUE MILK MUSHROOM Photograph by DAN MOLTER Lactarius indigo, commonly known as the indigo milk cap, the indigo (or blue) Lactarius, or the blue milk mushroom, is a species of fungus in the Russulaceae family of mushrooms. A widely distributed species, it grows naturally in eastern North America, East Asia, and…
CUTE OVERLOAD Photograph by BEWILDA BEAST Could Otters be any cuter? I mean come on! Give other animals a chance… BewildaBeast @ RedBubble via Reddit
THE STUNNING FLY GEYSER [BLACK ROCK DESERT, NEVADA] Photograph via Reddit Fly Geyser, also known as Fly Ranch Geyser is a small geothermal geyser that is located approximately 20 miles (32 km) north of Gerlach, in Washoe County, Nevada. The Geyser is located in Hualapai Flat less than a mile from State…
STARGAZING Photograph by BEN CANALES Photographer Ben Canales is the grand prize winner of the National Geographic Traveler’s Photo Contest for 2011. His stunning self-portrait was taken at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Ben’s submission details as follows: Here on my first time visit to Crater Lake National Park, I wanted…
SOME KIND OF SUPER CLOUD! Photograph by PAT KAVANAGH There’s a lot of activity in this cloud. Down below we see a rainbow amidst a dark and menacing storm cloud. Yet as we go higher, the cloud gets fluffier and friendlier, as the sun tries to penetrate through. Photographer’s Description: I climbed…
Caterpillar 30x Magnification (5mm width) | Photograph by OLIVER MECKES Electron microscopes help bring nanoscience to life, providing a level of detail to scientists that was simply not available mere decades ago. The FEI Company is a worldwide leader in electron microscope technology. Below you will find a small collection of images from scientists…
SUDDENLY… A BEAR! Photograph by PAUL NICKLEN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Photographer’s Description: In a forest dominated by second-growth trees (in British Columbia), a young [Kermode] bear settles into a mossy day bed at the foot of a giant, old-growth western red cedar. Bears use such day beds to rest and sleep after…
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