Beaches make enormous canvases for this guy's enormous creativity.
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Beaches make enormous canvases for this guy's enormous creativity.
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If you've never been to Death Valley, you probably have no idea what you are missing. Truly an outstanding experience.
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Felix Salazar took to his Los Angeles salt water aquariums for these gorgeous macro shots of coral.
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For nearly a century, the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company in Chicago has been accumulating ice and frost in its deep freezers. So when the building sold, there was a lot of defrosting to be done. Beautiful.
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Held since 1963, the Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival can last more than a month, depending on the weather.
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This panoramic photograph of New York City captured by Sergey Semenov recently won Epson’s Pano Award for most outstanding panorama captured by an amateur. Check out a high-resolution version of the image here.
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Lovely animation by Pablo Maximiliano of our planets.
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Artist Kerry Skarbakka, in his self-portrait series Struggle to Right Oneself, gets himself in moments of falling: scary, mesmerizing, beautiful.
Artist statement:
This photographic work is in response to this delicate state. It comprises a culmination of thought and emotion, a tying together of the threads of everything I perceive life has come to represent. It is my understanding and my perspective, which relies on the shifting human conditions of the world that we inhabit. It’s exploration resides in the sublime metaphorical space from where balance has been disrupted to the definitive point of no return. It asks the question of what it means to resist the struggle, to simply let go. Or what are the consequences of holding on?
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In a parking lot in Queens, New York, these 30-foot tall dunes caused somehow by Hurricane Sandy.
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Nabana no Sato, a winter light show at a botanical garden turned light theme park on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana.
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Unbelievably crisp and clear, shot with an 800 mm lens from over a mile away, in real time at Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park.
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No translation needed I think.
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“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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The Last Iceberg: Photos by Camille Seaman
Melting Away includes photos taken in the arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica:
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
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A year of video taken from a camera attached to the helmet of Highland Park, MI firefighter Scott Ziegler.
Berlin-based artist, Aslan Malik’s turns the faces on our currency into members of the Justice League.
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Photo and caption by Ashley Vincent/National Geographic Photo Contest. The subject’s name is Busaba, a well cared for Indochinese Tigress whose home is at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand. I had taken many portraits of Busaba previously and it was becoming more and more difficult to come up with an image that appeared any different to the others. Which is why I took to observing her more carefully during my visits in the hope of capturing something of a behavioural shot. The opportunity finally presented itself while watching Busaba enjoying her private pool then shaking herself dry. In all humility I have to say that Mother Nature smiled favourably on me that day!
Photo and caption by Fransisca Harlijanto/National Geographic Photo Contest. I was surrounded by thousands of fish that moved in synchrony because of the predation that was happening. It was an incredible experience.
Photo and caption by Sanjeev Bhor/National Geographic Photo Contest. Everyday in mara starts with something new and different and day ends with memorable experiences with spectacular photographs. I was very lucky of sighting and photographing Malaika the name of female Cheetah and her cub. She is well known for its habit to jump on vehicles. She learned that from her mother Kike, and Kike from her mother Amber. Like her mother she is teaching lessons to her cub. Teaching lessons means addition of another moment for tourist. This is one of the tender moment between Malaika and her cub. I was very lucky to capture that moment.
Photo and caption by Kai-Otto Melau/National Geographic Photo Contest. A race that follows in the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen brings the contestants to the Hardangervidda Mountainplateu, Norway. 100km across the plateau, the exact same route Amundsen used to prepare for his South Pole expedition in 1911 is still used by explorers today. Amundsen did not manage to cross the plateau and had to turn back because of bad weather. He allegedly said that the attempt to cross Hardangervidda was just as dangerous and hard as the conquering of the South Pole. The group in the picture used the race as preparations for an attempt to cross Greenland.
Photo and caption by Eric Guth/National Geographic Photo Contest. Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiamerkurjˆkull glacier on Iceland’s eastern coast. During the waning light of summer this image was created over the course of a 4 minute exposure while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for 2 of those 4 minutes.
Photo and caption by关嘉城/National Geographic Photo Contest. Dragon boating is a Chinese traditional entertainment. As an aquatic sport to memorialize Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet in ancient China, it is usually held in festivals, which can be traced back to two thousands years ago.
Photo and caption by Nenad Saljic/National Geographic Photo Contest. The Matterhorn 4478m at full moon.
Photo and caption by Micah Albert/National Geographic Photo Contest. At the end of the day women are allowed to pick through the dumpsite.
From over 22,000 entries in 150 countries this year, the winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest have been announced. Awesome. Get your desktop/iPad/iPhone wallpapers here.
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Over 7,100 photos, taken over the course of 730 captures the blooming of Amaryllis, Lilies, Zygocactus, Rose, Gladiolus, and Gardenia.
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Simple idea, really, but wow, awesome.
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