Feed your soul and watch this 5:50 minutes of incredible photography by Sebastiao Salgado.- Robert
Thanks to Doug B. for bringing this to our attention.
Category: Art in nature
Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon rising. I captured the video from 2.1km away on the other side of the city. It’s something that I’ve been wanting to photograph for a long time now, and a lot of planning and failed attempts had taken place. Finally, during moon rise on the 28th January 2013, everything fell into place and I got my footage.
The video is as it came off the memory card and there has been no manipulation whatsoever. Technically it was quite a challenge to get the final result. I shot it on a Canon ID MkIV in video mode with a Canon EF 500mm f/4L and a Canon 2x extender II, giving me the equivalent focal length of 1300mm.
Music – Tenderness by Dan Phillipson : premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/songs/tenderness
-Mark Gee
One thing I encourage you to do is watch this on the biggest screen you have – don’t waste it on an iPhone screen. – Robert
Thanks to Mary M. and Ann R. (both) for passing this along to us.
An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.
CLICK HERE to view the animated map.
Thanks to Cathy B. for bringing this one to our attention.
Watch this video and see our story compressed into two minutes.
Thanks to Richard D. for passing this link along to us.
Watch this in HD if you can. Simply beautiful. – R
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
Thanks to Kevin W. for bringing this to our attention.
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
Watch it in HD if your system permits. 20 minutes of wonder-full perspective. - Robert
Thanks to Bob A. for bringing this to our attention.
Thanks to Carol W. for giving me the book Overview when it first came out in 1987.
A documentary film titled Chasing Ice is up for an Oscar.
Watch this 4+ minutes of unbelievable video and see how our world is changing in real time.
Prepare to be amazed.
Seek out Chasing Ice through your normal channels to learn and see more. The reviews and awards are stunning. My hat is off to world class photographer, Jim Balog and his team for devoting their time, talents, and energy into bringing Balog’s vision to the screen. I spent a week with Jim back in 2005 at a photography workshop in the Tetons. When I asked why he drove a Honda Element instead of something more predictable, like a Land Rover, he replied “I don’t believe it is everyone’s God given right to drive up steep mountain roads at 70 mph. This carries all my gear, I can hose it out when it gets dirty and it gets decent mileage.” — This is a nature photographer who actually cares about the environment instead of just taking great pictures of it. – Robert
CLICK HERE to view the Official Trailer for the film.
Thanks to Mark Szulgit for bringing this link to our attention.
UPDATE January 21, 2013 : For those with an iPad the iBook versions are for you. For everyone else, download the PDF (Portable Document Format) version and view it on your computer, or tablet. - Robert
Soar through the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, exploring some of its most significant discoveries – from dark energy to colliding galaxies. Decend to Earth, where Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, readies for the future of astronomy. Image galleries, video, and interactives bring home the telescopes’ science and engineering in this pair of free books available through the iBooks® app on the iPad.
CLICK HERE to get these iBooks and PDF’s.
Thanks to Verna G. for this link.
Fly above the Earth on the International Space Station at night.
Thanks to Peter B. for passing this along to us.
Each week the moderators and staff of NatureScapes select one photo that particularly stands out in each of the image critique galleries. This photo becomes that gallery’s Image of the Week, and at year end one image is selected from these to be the gallery’s Image of the Year.
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West)
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Thanks to Doug B for passing this one along.
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.
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The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations.
Our apparatus was built from a design published by Richard Berg [Am J Phys 59(2), 186-187 (1991)] at the University of Maryland. The particular apparatus shown here was built by our own Nils Sorensen.
Video courtesy of Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations, © 2010 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Thanks to Chuck P. for passing this along to us.
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by Terje Sorgjerd.
Time lapse photography of the Milky Way from Spain’s highest mountain. A real treat, a real beauty. Click the video above to play it.
Thanks to Jay A. for passing this along to us.
It’s hard to imagine that Yosemite is only 60 miles from Fresno where it never ever snows and rarely gets below 32 F in the dead of winter. This frazil ice phenomenon only happens in March and April.
CLICK HERE to view this interesting video.
Thanks to Bob A. for passing this along to us.
Lonely Planet have announced the winner of its online photo mosaic competition, created to celebrate the publication of its 100 millionth guidebook.
Indian national Sreesailam Pasupula, 33, of Mumbai was declared the winner with his arresting photograph of glamorous girls parading on a performance stage at Pushkar ka Mela, the world’s largest camel fair in Rajasthan, India.
A gallery of the 50 finalists can be seen at www.lonelyplanet.com/gallery
Click Here to see these exceptional & wonderful images.
Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world’s best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.
Deadline for Entries:
April 30, 2011
Thanks to Brooks H. for passing this link along to us.
CLICK HERE to visit the Small World web site. Incredible pictures from past competitions.
