Umwelt – a strange, mysteriously edited short by Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama featuring insects crawling across flowers at the precise moment of their blooming (in time lapse).
More info on the flowers and insects here.
Category Archives: Nature
Every month, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched in 2005, sends images back to Earth.
A recent batch of more than 1,000 photographs coincided with the Martian equinox when the sun shone directly onto the planet’s equator, revealing clear views of a surprisingly diverse, multicoloured terrain normally shrouded in darkness.
View the complete image set here.
Yesterday.
Collywobble writes:
Spotted on Bettystown beach (county Meath). Giant Lions Mane Jelly Fish. Someone helpfully stuck a tennis ball in it for perspective.
Warning for sea swimmers as dangerous giant jellyfish spotted on Irish beaches (Independent)
Masked faces emerging pareidolically from subtly lit macro shots of insect bodies by French photographer Pascal Goet.
From a solo exhibition earlier this year at Parisian gallery Blin Plus Blin.
The carefully composed near life-sized mashups, composites and staged nature photographs of Simen Johan.
No mere photoshoppery, some take years to complete, involving elaborate sets and multiple images digitally enhanced by marathon post production sessions. Others are simply straight photographs.
A huge thunderhead above the Pacific Ocean south of Panama, recently shot from the cockpit of a Boeing 767-300 flying at an altitude of 11.27km by Equador Airlines pilot Santiago Borja.
Last year, he captured something similar over the coast of Venezuela (below).
More of his images here.
Ollie ‘The Fla’ O’Flaherty (top)
The first installment of Fáilte Ireland’s venture into the world of V.R. and 3D footage of the Wild Atlantic Way.
A virtually gnarly 360′ of Ollie ‘The Fla‘ O’Flaherty riding the surf beneath the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare.
Next week: sheep scaring on the Burren.
Thanks Oval Head
Behold: the Potoo – a type of frogmouth bird, native to Central and South America, whose gaping maw is adapted to capturing insects.
Which it does at night. Obviously.