Roll Clouds above Las Olas Beach in Uruguay, off the Brazilian coast and a variant known as Morning Glory over Burketown in Queensland.
They will tend to make you very high.
Category Archives: Nature
Google Earth images are compiled from different datasets of satellite imagery taken months, perhaps years apart. Sometimes the process of stiching the smaller images together includes anomalies such as differences in the appearance of the terrain during different seasons.
In his ‘Juxtapose‘ project, artist Daniel Schwartz compiles tasty examples of this split screen exotica.
Tree Hugger
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Among Giants is a short, highly atmospheric multi award-winning mini-doc from Rainhouse Cinema featuring ‘Farmer’, an eco-activist intent on saving an ancient Redwood Grove in California scheduled for logging by ascending to the canopy and building a platform that would eventually became his home for three years.
The soundtrack, composed of ambient forest noises, is wonderful. And there’s a happy ending.
The 300 million year old supercontinent visualised with current political borders.
Full sized map here.
Wildlife cameraman Brad Josephs sez:
When using a GoPro to capture unusually close footage of grizzly bears for the Great Bear Stakeout for BBC, I had a young bear actually chew on the camera. Amazingly there was no damage to the camera! Some of this clip appears in the film Great Bear Stakeoout on BBC and Discovery Channel.
Warning: Grizzly bears do not floss.
Making of The Great Bear Stakeout- Behind the scenes (Alaska Bears and Wolves)
Underworld
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Desaturated black and white photographs taken off the coast of Jakarta by Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro.
An atmospheric, ominous take on a world normally seen in vibrant colour.
Recently-laid robin’s eggs in the garden of a house in Prince Frederick, Maryland by Washington Post photographer Linda Davidson.
A Dog’s Life
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Wise words and deeds by Patrick Moberg.
Parisian photographer Pierre Carreau’s spectacular high-speed macro and wide-angle lens studies of ocean waves, apparently frozen in time.
More at Carreau’s website.
A shot taken at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri by photographer Lisa Kee, who swears it’s not ‘shopped. Sez she:
‘Minerva’ was turning her head from side to side quite intrigued with the noise from my camera and then just flipped it upside down. I have watched birds of prey turn their heads all different ways but to see one completely upside down like this was a first. I had to double check my camera to see it actually happened.