Category Archives: Nature

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After a prolonged spell of wind, snow and ice, photographer Marco Korosec climbed Mount Javornik in easterrn Slovenia to capture the otherworldly formations, including meter-long ice spikes on trees and a lookout tower encased in hard rime (formed by high winds and freezing fog).

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Artworks carved from feathers by the scalpel of artist Chris Maynard, who sez of them:

Each feather, though dead and discarded, keeps something of the bird’s essence. Since I work mostly with shed feathers, some of the birds that grew them are likely still living.

Feathers: Form & Function (Chris Maynard)

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The year 2010 recorded in a composite image of 3,888 photographs taken by Erik Solheim from the window of his apartment in Oslo.

Solheim set up his Canon 400D to record one image every 30 minutes: 16,000 photographs  whittled down to 3,888 from each of which he extracted a one-pixel wide line, then composited the lot (from January on the left to December on the right) using a computer script.

Full sized image here.

The source imagery was later turned into a rolling gif by ReditorITwitchToo.

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A Lyrebird recorded last year at Healesville Sancturary outside Melbourne, perfectly mimicking the sound of a toy laser gun, human voices, a camera shutter and the songs of various other birds.

He’s currently working on an album of his own material.

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