
Norwegian photographer Arlid Heitmann’s evocative photos of the Borg homeworld Aurora Borealis.
More here,

Norwegian photographer Arlid Heitmann’s evocative photos of the Borg homeworld Aurora Borealis.
More here,
Current conditions are impacting on today’s schedule with persistent heavy snowfall since 10am this morning pic.twitter.com/Udr1X3nm6C
— Ireland West Airport (@Irelandwest) February 14, 2014
Finnish photographer Janne Parviainen’s extraordinary light paintings are all created in-camera with no digital manipulation.
Throughout the long exposures, which last from minutes to hours on end, Parvianen moves around the space, tracing surfaces with point-source lights.
The images above are five of ten chosen and currently on offer as prints and canvasses from My Modern Shop.
Previously: A Little Light Topography and Meet The Illuminati

Ger Kelliher’s high speed photo of sea foam at Coomeenole beach in West Kerry last month.
Also available as a hi-res download.
Fearless Russian nutjobs Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makharov ascend the tower crane working on the as yet unfinished world’s second tallest building.
They’ve since posted pictures and a full account of their adventure (in Russian) on LiveJournal.
Related: Long Way Down
(H/T: Noel)




Illuminated Code From Space is artist Haari Tesla’s tilt-shift experiment with publicly distributed images of galaxies and nebulae – the most vast phenomenon we know of – presented as a series of micro-organisms. Sez she:
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). In the system the midpoint is Man, who summarizes the cosmos.

A mere whisker of the hirsute delights of Pierce and Stacy Thiot;’s Tumblr Will It Beard?, wherein objects (many suggested by readers and aficionados) are inserted into Pierre’s beard.
Derry’s Peace Bridge (top) disappears in the distance while the Guildhall (centre) receives a blanket of snow. Carlisle Road Methodist Church (bottom).
Via City Hotel Derry and Marie Claire
Earlier: It’s Sticking!