Tag: nature

  • Montomery Hill Park

    Montomery Hill Park

    I visited this park in San Jose, CA today. The views are pretty spectacular. It’s basically a giant field, but at a 45° angle. Next to Evergreen College, it’s situated between the college, a neighborhood and the mountains that surround Silicon Valley.

  • Cofrentes in Morning Fog

    Cofrentes in Morning Fog

  • Unprocessed film discovered frozen in Antarctica

    These 100 year old images were found frozen in the Antarctic ice. They were processed and revealed some fantastic photos from an expedition at the beginning of the last century. Read about it here. 100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered In Block of Ice in Antarctica via Antarctic Heritage Trust.

  • Clark Little Photography

    Clark Little is a photographer in beautiful Hawaii who shoots breaking waves right on the shore, with a style of composition all his own. Here he explains how he started out with a simple point and shoot capturing unique images of breaking waves, and how it exploded into something huge practically overnight. Check out his…

  • Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr

     Flickr user Linden Gledhill has a phenomenal series of macro photographs of butterfly wings. Incredible detail and sharpness for such a tiny subject. Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr.

  • Frogs and Moon

    So I went out tonight to try and snap a decent shot of the super-moon. I started out with a low ISO of 200 and aperture of 11 on my Canon 75-300 mm zoom. I wasn’t really getting satisfactory results though – that lens is hard to focus. Shutter speeds of around 125 – 320…

  • Electrifying Photos of Flowers Being Zapped by 80,000 Volts

    Robert Buelteman is a California photographer who developed his own technique for capturing images of plant life using high voltage electricity and optical fibers. Kirlian Photography is the use of electricity to transfer an image of coronal discharge onto film. Robert has applied that to various parts of plants and flowers to create astounding images that…

  • Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman

    Now this is just amazing. Astrophotography is one of my favorite things. Thierry Legault, a French engineer and photographer, managed to catch the ISS as it made it’s away in between the earth and Sun in January of 2011. The image is fantastic, almost sci-fi. Go to his homepage to see his other fine work,…

  • Terra Sacra Time Lapses

    Sean F. White is a photographer who has created an amazing time lapse video of various locations around the world. It’s about six minutes long and features locations such as the pyramids in Egypt, penguins in Antarctica, ancient trees in Africa and shots of the Milky Way out in the desert. There are many timelapse…

  • WonderLand – Aimishboy Photography

    Incredible macro photography from Nadav Bagim, of Israel. He sets up miniature scenes on his kitchen table, adds an insect or two, and the results are nothing less than fantastic. The color that he manages to bring out in his photos is amazing in it’s own right, but add that to the nature of each…

  • Ft. Fisher, NC – Rocks and Sky

    Here I stand, Once again, On my tiny speck of dust. Peering out of the blackness, Looking at the lights, With a heart full of wonder. And just for an instant, I perceive the Cosmos, And I blow the stars away Like dandelion seeds. [nggallery id=26]

  • Beached Whale on Carolina Beach.

    A small whale washed up on the beach here in Wilmington. It apparently is a Minke Whale. There is no cause of death at the moment, but officials from the local aquarium are picking up the carcass at some point to do a necropsy. The whale was torn up quite a bit, with a huge…