Saturday, 31 January 2015
Engines At Dawn
Two CP Rail engines come to life in the early glow of the winter sun. (c) Ian D. McGregor
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Friday, 30 January 2015
50 Culinary Hacks to Make You a Kitchen Master
Cooking can be fun, sensual and rewarding, but it can also be an inconvenience in the busy lives of modern go-getters. Luckily, this infographic compiles ways to trim cooking time down and increase efficiency. How many have you tried?
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A carpet of cherry blossom
You can find this most unique view on a street in Bonn, Germany in spring time.
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Thursday, 29 January 2015
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Under Prairie Skies XIX
In the afternoon light at the edge of a large Saskatchewan farm. (c) Ian D. McGregor
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36 Views of Mount Fuji
36 Views of Mount Fuji is a ukiyo-e series of large, color woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji in differing seasons and weather conditions from a variety of different places and distances and includes the famous print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." It actually consists of 46 prints created between 1826 and 1833. Thirty six were included in the original publication and, due to their popularity, 10 additional prints were added later
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Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Winter Rise
The rising sun over fallen trees in the snow. Winter Rise 586612. (c) Ian D. McGregor.
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Monday, 26 January 2015
Friday, 23 January 2015
Kawase Hasui (1883–1957)
In the early twentieth century a group of artists in Japan sought to revive the themes of traditional Japanese woodblock prints and transform them with a modern yet highly romantic visual vocabulary. Most prominent among this group was the landscape artist Kawase Hasui, who traveled throughout Japan and produced more than six hundred prints. (See the source links for more images.)
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Thursday, 22 January 2015
Winter Beauty III
The sun shielded by a thick layer of fog over the frozen lake presents just how beautiful winter can be.
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015
El Greco, View of Toledo
Oil on canvas, ca. 1598–99. Metropolitan Museum of Art. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.
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Dalí copies Vermeer, with Help from a Rhino
Dalí believed that he had discovered the underlying matrix of logarithmic curves that guided Vermeer’s work and, through paranoiac-critical reasoning, that those curves were those of a rhinoceros horn. After that, all that was left to do was to paint them together. (See the source links for many more photos of artists in their studios and for more about this work.)
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015
A Prairie Morning
Driving the Canadian Prairie in the morning light is a beautiful, peaceful experience.
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The Hedges
This is the "Kings Road" location as seen in the Game of Thrones series. Location: Dark Hedges in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Monday, 19 January 2015
What will kill us "humans" and when...
Do you have a fear of death? Wondering when the apocalypse will happen? Here are several apocalyptic threats that are most likely to wipe out earth's population and when.
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Pole Dance
Landscape Photography by Kilian Schoenberger, German-Czech borderlands. See the source links for more of his work.
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Sunday, 18 January 2015
Angry waters of Tsitsikama Coastal National Park
The angry waters of the South Coast near Tsitsikama Coastal National Park in Western Cape South Africa appeared inhospitable ... its a Summer here and these places attracts tourists from all over the world, especially in days like this one .
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Saturday, 17 January 2015
Potter's Hands
Photograph by Shivji Joshi, taken at Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Smithsonian Photo of the Day for January 1, 2015.
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Friday, 16 January 2015
The Mini Visualized
A Petrolicious infographic that is chock full of interesting tidbits about the iconic car. For instance, did you know that the Mini was the first British car to sell over one million models?
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Twilights
In a new show at Rome’s Sara Zarin Gallery, the Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova presents work composed of old books, which she arranges into a kind of jigsaw puzzle of palimpsests. “Paper, cards, and books have a fundamental value in my work,” she says. “I see them as a body of rules, dogmas, traditions, religious beliefs, and scientific discoveries, which, right or wrong for their time, human beings had put in cages.”
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Thursday, 15 January 2015
Rapa River Delta
Photograph by Sven Zacek, National Geographic Photo of the Day for January 15, 2015.
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Missouri Dragon
Aerial view of the Lake of the Ozarks, October 1945. Photo by Gerald Massie, via Missouri State Archives / Flickr Commons.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Monday, 12 January 2015
Infographic: Absolute zero to 'absolute hot'
How cold can it get on Earth? How hot can hot truly get? And, perhaps more importantly, what’s the ideal temperature a hazelnut souffle should be cooked at? All important questions, and to find out the answers we’ve created the ultimate thermometer, which takes you from absolute zero to what scientists think is the absolute heat limit. Dress appropriately.
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Sunday, 11 January 2015
Mother and Cheetah
Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary in Namibia has a cheetah rescue program and the woman who runs the foundation has a hand raised cheetah. Photograph by Terry Allen.
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Actual photographed image of Dione orbiting Saturn
Speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings. The spacecraft was nearly in the plane of the rings when the images were taken, thinning them by perspective and masking their awesome scale. The thin, curving shadows of the C ring and part of the B ring adorn the northern latitudes visible here, a reminder of the rings' grandeur.
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Saturday, 10 January 2015
Friday, 9 January 2015
Innerdal Tower, Omsdal, Norway
The valley Innerdalen lies north of and runs parallel to Sunndalen. Go to Alvundeid (southeast of Kristiansund) and then the local road up Virumdalen to Nerdal (free parking). From there on you walk on a “tractor road”, four kilometers to Innerdalshytta, a little shorter to Renndølsetra. The road is rough and narrow and the first part is very steep. This road is closed for all but the residents’ motor vehicles and four-wheel-drive is indispensable.
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Thursday, 8 January 2015
The Golden Gate Bridge
Workmen wearing steel helmets lay the catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Ca., Sept. 19, 1935. Construction on the bridge began on January 5, 1933 and lasted a little more than four years, costing more than $35 million. The bridge was opened to vehicular traffic on May 28, 1937, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington DC.
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The Golden King of the Savannah
This breathtaking photo was taken by Jackson Carvalho. More of his photographs can be found in the sources.
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Wednesday, 7 January 2015
A well-preserved trilobite specimen from Morocco that lived roughly 400m years ago
Trilobites may be the archetypal fossils, symbols of an archaic world long swept beneath the ruthless road grader of time. But we should all look so jaunty after half a billion years. At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Brian T. Huber, chairman of paleobiology, points to a flawless specimen of Walliserops, a five-inch trilobite that swam the Devonian seas around what is now Morocco some 150 million years before the first dinosaurs hatched.
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Monday, 5 January 2015
Happy New Year!
"Out with the old, in with the new, may you be happy the whole year through. Happy New Year!"
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Sunday, 4 January 2015
Winter Miracle in Japan
By Photographer Azul Obscura's own words: "New Year's Day of 2015, it was heavy snow in Kyoto. The next day morning, I went to Daigoji without hesitation. There was incredibly beautiful scenery, I felt like I was in a dream..."
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Painted White
A unique view of Oregon's Painted Hills, under a pristine coat of snow, on an unseasonably cold -10°F November morning.
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Saturday, 3 January 2015
Armored Motor Truck
This postcard depicts a Jeffery Armored Car No.1, built by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company, and used by General Pershing in his troop training in Columbus, New Mexico. Photo by Walter H. Horne, ca. 1916. Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library / Flickr Commons.
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