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Landset 7 spectral images_6_Kamchatka Peninsula_The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska





Matthew Albanese_This model is simply made out of faux fur(fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains)_perspective forced_lighting created by shifting white balance





Al Hajjara in Yemen_aiace flickr





Aurora Borealis From Space





panaramafollowingthesunxy2_unknown author_found via Dark Roasted Blend initially





Some moths hanging out around our shop light in the maintenance hangar at night_time lapse etc





Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to visit the International Space Station during the early morning hours of 2001 July 12





Monstrously bright, this fireball meteor lit up the Mojave Desert sky Monday morning, part of this year's impressive Geminid meteor shower





Vincent Fournier mars desert research station





Several clouds are stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud





Eclipse over Gough Island, with a Sootie Albatross doing a flyby, what a spectacular sight_apparently not shopped etc





particularly striking set of anticrepuscular rays photographed in 2001 from a moving car just outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA





This image taken near Taffe's home depicts the algae bloom and the diminishing water levels (shown by the previous high-water marks on the rock)





TwinCitiesBrightest_'light art performance photography'_4_8 (All done 'in camera' in the moment, no post-work etc)





Opportunity looks opposite the Sun into Endurance Crater and sees its own shadow





In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far_Australia Day





record_grooves__the little bumps are dust on the record





Yunnan drought_3


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Grand Canyon, Sunset


Morning Glory, Yellowstone Nat'l Park


Bryce Canyon


El Capitan, Yosemite


Half Dome, Yosemite


Court of the Patriarchs, Zion Nat'l Park


Canyonlands Nat'l Park


Arches Nat'l Park


Capital Reef Nat'l Park
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'The Crater' luxury cenote


From Hoover Dam_bypass under construction_JT40D flickr


This is a red sand beach on Maui_Reportedly, these are quite rare.


Beached ship image on photobucket_no details


One famous cenote is near the Ik-kil town which is close to the Chichen Itza Ruins and Villadolid



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Even this Buddha statue couldn’t escape the Banyan tree’s grip in Bangkok, Thailand


Perched on the side of a cliff 3000 feet from the floor of the Paro valley, Tiger's Nest is the most famous of Bhutan's monasteries


Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden_Art Suites created by world artistes_1


Chinstrap penguins perch on top of an eroded blue iceberg near Candlemas Island


A worker cleaning dead fish at Guanqiao Lake in central China’s Hubei province last July_Hot weather and untreated industrial waste killed an estimated 50,000kg of fish


Khao Luang Cave_Flicker_cfimages


american-abandoned-building - Ben Willmore


Winter-to-Summer solstice 'solargraph' of sun over Clifton Suspension Bridge_pin hole


McNaughts Comet 2007_John White


Doxorubin in methanol and dimethylbenzenesulfonic acid (80x)


1400s Prague Astronomical Clock_2_by 'ThunderMax


Feng Jiang China pic_location unknown_via DRB



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Tibetan/Nepalese Chortens & Mani Stones:


Buddhist Chorten_'On the way to Tengboche from Namche'_Ken Morton


Hemis Shackpachen - Temisgan_Chorten after Hemis indicates the way_(think pink sky is dust as other pics not altered)_MyHimalayas


Buddhist stupa (thyangboche chorten) in the Nepal Himalaya_'jonswebsite'


Ancient Chorten_ Tibetan Kingdom of Mustang, Nepal_don gurewitz


A symbolic chorten and faded prayer flags greet the sunrise 16,000 feet along a trek in the Himalaya_Michael Anderson


Chortens that we passed during the 4 days Helambu trip in the hills of Nepal_justsnaps blogspot


Chorten_Day 10 Remche to Langtang Village_yetizone_Ian Johnson


Nepal chorten_'Nepal in Pictures_Living With Gods And Demons'_chiangmai tripod site


thyangboche chorten_by gunggung007 on webshots site


mani rock near lukla_by gunggung007 on webshots site


mani stone_by gunggung007 on webshots site


CHIU MONASTERY, its 3 CHORTENS and MOUNT KAILASH_craig lovell_cropped



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Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes_1st January 2009, from Camp Cooinda_Phil Hart


The upper half of Cheve Cave's vast Entrance Chamber_Frank Abbato


Sergei Makurin_Manpupuner Rock Formations located in North Ural Mountains, Russia. More here


Bacteria colors water at Sawmill Sink on Abaco_poisonous_Wes C Skiles


Berlin-Prague-Vienna 65 years later_sergey-larenkov livejournal. More here


Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods_InsideInsides blog_cabbage. More here



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This thread is teh awesome.



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Pictures I took out in Colorado. Most of these are in Estes Park.











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Been browsing through National Geographic's Visions of Earth collection...































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these were just too cool not to share.

Go here. These pictures were taken in the early 1900's. I'm just gonna copy/paste the description from the site-

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.



click the link for more. can you believe these are 100 years old? amazing.



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Just to overload this thread even more...

Here's some giant geoartwork...



Slice by Andrew Rogers


Jim Denevan - Black Rock Desert of Nevada


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And this converted volcano 'naked eye observatory'! - Rodens Crater - 'opening 2012'...







Meandering podcast here - volcano stuff starts 29mins 40secs

(It seems to act as a camera obscura to some extent, and has an optical illusion built in ~ as you approach the elliptical viewing hole in the ceiling it at first appears circular and directly in front of you)



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Hopefully this will start a new load-friendly page...

This guy is amazing...

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Apparently he uses no tools & brings no materials with him for most of his work... shaping ice with heat of his hand and what have you. Check out one of his pieces in motion in the vid below...





And here's a gentle podcast that touches on the 'long now' vibe to his work, and his desire to work out in the wilderness (yet seeing it as a communicative 'social landscape') - not as pretentious as it sounds

And here's a very cute gallery of wild art done by kids after a teacher showed them some of his work



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Gotta love his ethic of just wandering out there and being inspired. He does do larger installation pieces and that but says his ideas spring from the initial impromptu wanderings. Would be grand to stumble onto one in place.

PS I've gone and bought the Rivers and Tides doc - will let ya know how it is



I never really noticed this thread before. My goodness, it has a lot of beautiful pictures.