The centuries old ice coming down the slopes of Öræfajökull via Svínafellsjökull glacier has had almost all of the air pressed out of the ice. Once air has been pressed out the ice turns into this magically blue crystal like ice. The outer surface of this ice (the surface of the glacier) gets bombarded by…
Snow-covered trees in Lapland, the largest and northernmost region in Finland. The picture, which was featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on 2012 May 29, was taken in the winter of 2011. They described the snow-covered trees as ‘watchful aliens’ titling the picture, Sentinels of the Arctic.
Photographer Robert Seber took this awesome shot of his neighbour’s gekco. It’s a unique perspective of a very cool animal. Shot details as follows: Canon 5D, MPE-65mm, ST-E2, 430 EX, Home-made polypropylene softbox, f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 100. Geckos are lizards found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60…
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That is one crazy, supremely-confident cat! Amazing shot by 22-year-old Ivo, based in Berlin, Germany.
Incredible triceratops sculpture made from dozens of jack o’lanterns. These are just a handful of the over 5,000 individually hand-carved and illuminated pumpkins at this year’s Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze put on by Historic Hudson Valley.
Gentoo penguin is about to take a big bite into a GoPro camera in Antarctica. The image was shared on Gap Adventure’s M/S Expedition twitter account earlier this week.
In this fantastic capture by John Fowler, we see the famous House on Fire Ruin in Mule Canyon, Utah. Located in the ‘South Fork’ of Mule Canyon, House on Fire is about a 3 mile (4.8km) round trip to reach. At certain times of the day (apparently late morning is best), when the sun hits…
Located on the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula in the southwestern province of Jeollanam-do, Boseong is a land of rolling hills covered in verdant green tea fields. Boseong-gun is the largest tea-growing county in Korea. It is known in many historical records as the home of tea cultivation and approximately 40% of the nation?s…
