Entrants from this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, which is an actual thing that exists.
Category Archives: Nature
Autumn comes to the 1400 year old Ginkgo biloba at the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple in the Zhongnan Mountains in China.
A Slow Build
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The shell of a White Lipped Snail magnified 2500 times by a scanning electron microscope. New platelets can be seen forming in the darker layer.
The 400 trees of the Crooked Forest outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland (photographed by Killian Shoenberger) are believed to have been shaped by human hands back in the 1930s, though no one knows why.
Theories for the 90 degree bends at the base of the pine trees range from preparing the wood for furniture or boat building, the effect of energy fields and witchcraft.
Naturally, we’re going with witchcraft.
A strange meteorological event in the skies above Sydney Australia at the weekend known as a ‘shelf cloud’.
Several kilometers wide, it brought heavy rain, high winds and thunderstorms.
Tsypical.
Ninja Farm
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A photo taken by Canadian farmer Liezel Kennedy which looks, at first, like empty Saskatchewan winter tundra…
…but turns out…
…on closer examination.
…to contain 550 sheep.
Initially believing her flock to have scarpered, Kennedy says that she only spotted the ovine ninjas once she got within 50 feet of them.
It’s a problem she also faces in Spring and Summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo0fnK3na5g
The changing face of mankind, illustrated by Museum of the Earth paleo artist in residence John Gurche (that’s him, top right) visualised by Yale University Press.
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins (John Gurche)
Controversial.
A Fallstreak Hole or ‘Hole Punch Cloud’ spotted last year in the skies above Victoria, Australia .Wikipedia sez:
Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation. When ice crystals do form it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water droplets around the crystals to evaporate: this leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud.
Now for yeh.
An unnerving animation by 3D artist Francisco Sanchez de Canete inspired by Charles Darwn’s first impressions of carnivorous plants.
Got Crabs?
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Hundreds of thousands of baby crabs delicately handled at Legian Beach, Bali, Indonesia by Jeremias Maluw.