Lantern slide from historic lecture book, circa 1915, in Oregon State Special Collections / Flickr Commons.
View full size image: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/the-great-bronze-buddha-at-kamakura
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
The Great Bronze Buddha at Kamakura
Lantern slide from historic lecture book, circa 1915, in Oregon State Special Collections / Flickr Commons.
View full size image: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/the-great-bronze-buddha-at-kamakura
Monday, 29 December 2014
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Sun Shines in High-Energy X-rays
For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing images of our sun. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first picture of the sun, producing the most sensitive solar portrait ever taken in high-energy X-rays.
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1vpD7TZ
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Monday, 22 December 2014
Scavenger
An eagle inspects the ground for food left by other birds. Once in danger of extinction in most of the lower 48 states, bald eagles were removed from the endangered species list in 2007. Their range now extends across most of North America. Photograph by Klaus Nigge. See the source links for more.
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1AYjKo9
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Friday, 19 December 2014
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
As a visual artist and photographer, I exhibited in numerous venues in The Netherlands and abroad: Italy, Hong Kong and the UK. In 2008 I was nominated for the photography prize of the Hyères Festival in France. Using nature and scientific imaging as my inspiration, I stage natural phenomena. In my studio or on location, I achieve this with lo-fi special effects.
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1JruSQA
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Air Traffic Over Mount Fuji, Japan
Paragliders stipple the sky above Japan’s Mount Fuji in this picture by Your Shot member Takashi, who writes: “I was shooting from behind the takeoff field so as not to get in the way. I [waited for] the moment when many paragliders gathered in the direction of the mountain—and got this shot.”
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1x0f9Vs
Moscow Air Pollution
Over the past two years escalating numbers of vehicles on the roads put a stifling strain on the environment. Today Moscow has nearly 3,000,000 cars. Gray-brown noxious haze of smog covers the streets filled with jam-packed traffic, which blows out tons of unhealthy exhaust fumes of carbon monoxide and other harmful chemicals. Additionally there are 12 huge heat power stations, 53 district heating stations and 3,000 industrial enterprises still operating within the city borders.
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1zvqR89
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
E-mail: The early, early days!
You had to be sure to include your snail-mail address too of course...
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1sAMhBz
Monday, 15 December 2014
The longest total solar eclipse that Earth will witness in the 21st century
Visible within a narrow band snaking across Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the totality of the eclipse lasted up to six minutes and 39 seconds, a duration that will not be surpassed until 2132. At Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where the first hydrogen bomb was tested by the U.S. in 1952, the totality lasted more than five and a half minutes.
View full size image: http://ift.tt/12XPLBO
Sunday, 14 December 2014
Road to Light
A marvelous rainy morning at the beautiful Petit Minou lighthouse in Brittany, France
View full size image: http://ift.tt/1A7AlWx
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)