For the first time in five years, the waters of lake Superior in Northwest Wisconsin have frozen solid enough to allow access to the ice caves at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
With an estimated 1000 people a day visiting, the caves could remain accessible for another month.
(Pix: Kelly Marquardt and Andy Rathbun)
The eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don’t look around the eyes, look into my eyes…you’re under.
Malaysian photographer Jimmy Kong’s pin-sharp, highly disconcerting macro images of various arachnids native to his homeland eyeballing you.
That’s right. You personally.
https://vimeo.com/78188069
Artist Dennis Hlynsky, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, records footage of bird flight and murmuration, then edits it with After Effects to highlight individual flight paths.
There’s no digital animation or layering, just a sort of temporary time lapse from which the natural pattern of flight paths emerge.
Many more videos of his work here, including the trails of insects, ducks and other animals.
Of this RC car/GoPro experiment in cute-baiting, Australian photographer/adventurer Chris Bray sez:
While running one of our five 2-week photo safaris to Kenya in 2014, we attached a GoPro camera to a remote control car and drove it up to a lioness with cubs, stopping at a distance where they still showed no interest, and then jiggled the car around just enough to invoke the cubs curiosity. Two of the three cubs then came over and investigated it for 20min, before growing bored and tired and falling asleep back with mum.
Filmmaker and biomedical researcher Dr Gary Greenberg not only photographed these sand particles at 300x magnification, he also invented and patented the HD 3D microscopes that made the images possible.
The composition and and appearance of sand varies depending on geographical location. These tiny beauties are most likely from the beaches of Hawaii, where Dr Greenberg lives.
Since the late 90s, photographer Mike Hollingshead has travelled up to 20,000 miles a year chasing storms in search of these ominous and spectacular images.
More here.
INTERVIEW: Awe-Inspiring Skies, Captured by an Extreme Storm Chaser (Wired)
Filmmaker and conservationist Kevin ‘The Lion Whisperer’ Richardson is a self-taught animal behaviourist who’s been working with lions in South Africa for the past 16 years.
As this GoPro featurettte shows, they’re quite fond of him.
In that he remains uneaten thus far.
Did you catch that?
Scientists capture (after years of failed attempts) the Darwin-with-a-twist moment when an African tigerfish snatches a barn swallow right out oNOMNOMNOM
It’s hard to believe that this pulverising singularity of cuteness will one day grow into a three-quarter tonne behemoth who wouldn’t even think twice about pulling your spinal cord out through your eye.
Vulcan Point on Crater Lake on Volcano Island on Lake Taal on the island of Luzon in The Phillipines – the world’s largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island.
You might want to lie down now.
