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C’mere To Me
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A selection of winners from the 2020 Close Up Photographer Of The Year.
Above: a multi-hued glass worm by Andrei Savitsky; fruiting bodies of the slime mold Metatrichia floriformis growing on a decaying beech trunk by Bary Webb; a bioluminescent Lamprigera beetle in the Borneo rainforest by Chien Lee; a spider at Turjanos nature conservation area, Kisőrös, Hungary by Csaba Daroczi; an eel larva off the island of Lembeh (Indonesia) during a blackwater dive by Galice Hoarau (the overall winner); a great crested tit in a wood in Switzerland by Giacomo Redaelli; a butterfly on the wall of an abandoned building site in Yorkshire by Mike Curry and a springtail on an icy lake at Csongrád-Bokros, Hungary by Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz (young photographer of the year).
More here.
Last evening.
Looking east along the Grand Canal from Sally’s Bridge, Dublin 8.
(Thanks Colum Cronin)
Dat Boi
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An immersive, BAFTA nominated short by Kathrin Steinbacher in which – following a joyful dance in the nip which will stay with you for the rest of the day – Grandma Hedi sets off through the Alps, revealing the reason for her attachment to her worn-out hiking boots.
Sunrise at Bray, county Wicklow this morning.
(Thanks Marsupial)
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 2021 BMW R1250 GS – newest descendent of the 1980 R 80 G/S, which effectively established the ‘adventure bike’ market and is still BMW Motorrad’s best selling model.
40 years on, the R1250 retains the same 136bhp power plant (and optional black and yellow livery) as its predecessor, with new features like adaptive cornering LED headlights, heated seat and pillion, ABS brakes and Dynamic Traction Control. A more rugged variant – the R 1250 GS Adventure – will come with full crash protection, auxiliary lighting, luggage racks and a taller windscreen.
Yours for around €15,500.
If you were looking up at the sky last evening, you’ll have seen the Red Planet as bright and close as it’s been to the Earth for two years. To wit:
In a week, Mars will be almost as bright — but at opposition, meaning that it will be directly opposite the Sun. Due to the slightly oval shape of the orbits of Mars and Earth, closest approach and opposition occur on slightly different days. The featured image sequence shows how the angular size of Mars has grown during its approach over the past few months. Noticeably orange, Mars is now visible nearly all night long, reflecting more sunlight toward Earth than either Saturn or Jupiter. Even at its closest and largest, though, Mars will still appear about 100 times smaller, in diameter, than a full moon.
(Image: Jonathan T. Grayson)
Alarming new visualisations in the ongoing kid-art to photoshop project by artist and dad Tom Curtis.
See also: the work of Dave Devries, Tatsputin and Dom’s dad