Millions of fireflies making whoopee in a dense Japanese bamboo forest during the 2019 mating season, captured by Russian photographer Daniel Kordan, who sez of the sexy swarm, in which males produce flashes of light and females respond in kind:
Fireflies are very sensitive. They need clean water nearby, warm humid air (but not rain), and no lights. Not a single photo can show how beautiful it is—shimmering and blinking forest full of little stars.
Kordan shares more about his process here.
Two and a half very pleasing minutes of macro photography featuring ice crystals forming on the surface of soap bubbles in frigid temperatures – shot over the course of 30 hours by the very patient Jens Heildler.
Signs of Spring! @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/cDXmuiSVe0
— Colum Cronin (@ColumFromCork) February 16, 2021
A fascinating, beautifully shot, multi-award-winning short film by Maxwel Hohn documenting the early life of Western Toad tadpoles in a remote lake on Vancouver island.
Remember the old ‘After Dark’ screensaver?
Well here’s the real thing – a soothing, soporific 12 hour video of Pacific fishes, soft corals, and anemones at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Nighty night.
A grotesquely compelling time-lapse short by Austrian animator/motion designer Christian Stangl featuring various succulent things gasifying and transforming into crispy remnants over the course of days and weeks.
Mmm. Crispy remnants.
More of his dark oeuvre here.
Tree.fm – offering a wide selection of forest ambience for the housebound urbanite.
Merry Christmas all.
Seeyiz in 2021.
There’ve been a few (but none quite like the outgoing one).
Behold: a spectacular display of mammatus (breast-like) clouds over Mount Rushmore last September. To wit:
Unlike normal flat-bottomed clouds which form when moist and calm air plateaus rise and cool, bumpy mammatus clouds form as icy and turbulent air pockets sink and heat up. Such turbulent air is frequently accompanied by a thunderstorm. Each mammatus lobe spans about one kilometre. The greater mountain is known to native Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, deities responsible for the directions north, south, east, west, up, and down.
(Image: Laure Mattuzzi)
Want to watch an 83 day time-lapse of a sunflower growing from a seed to a plant set to a smooth jazz soundtrack?
Of course you do.
Sit down there.
Suitably briefed by research scientist Dr Kurt Schwenk, zefrank wraps his prehensile mind around the topic of snakes, lizards, worm-lizards and their impressive, useful, frequently alarming tongues.
Previously: True Facts About Hummingbirds
