PIXEL PEOPLE PERFECTION Artwork by Craig Alan via Artexpo (Eric Smith) on Flickr In this awesome artwork by Craig Alan, people are the pixels in this tribute to the iconic portrait of Audrey Hepburn. Why do the red lips cast red shadows? Probably because staying true and having black shadows would ruin…
EYES ON THE PRIZE Photograph by Kristina Buceatchi This is one of those old but gold photos that’s been floating around the Internet for years (at least since 2005). It’s a great shot of a beautiful animal and that eye! It’s truly hypnotic. Any guesses as to what our friendly feline is…
DRAGON FALLS, VENEZUELA FROM ABOVE Photograph by Dmitry Moiseenko @ AirPano.ru In this incredible capture by Dmitry Moiseenko, we look down the jaw-dropping Dragon Falls in Venezuela. Known locally as Churun Meru, it’s apparently about 10 km south of Angel Falls in the same valley. This shot is from May 2011. The…
ALLIGATOR STREET ART Artwork by ROA ! Crikey! Hugely awesome piece by street artist ROA in Atlanta, Georgia for the Living Walls Conference. Couldn’t tell if this was a croc or alligator, thoughts? ROA ! on Flickr via jjrs on Reddit SEE MORE ‘PICTURES OF THE…
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…
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…
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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