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1 - Icicled Trees on Lake Ontario
Timothy Corbin captured these stunning images of trees and their roots layered with ice and icicles on the edge of Lake Ontario.
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Lit by other People
Love is what we have chosen to call the world lit by other people.
Thank you for all of your light.
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2 - Mountains of Mist
Polish photographer Jakub Polomski was inspired by the Misty Mountains of J.R.R. Tolkien in his series "Mountains of Mist."
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4 - Snowflakes as Lightpainting Surfaces (photos & video)
New York-based photographer Brian Maffitt created these stunning long-exposure light painting photos by projecting a movie onto the falling snow of the storm that hit the Northeast in order to light up the snowflakes.
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I am beginning to be astounded at the beautiful photography from around the world that my little SKYE Weather + Photo app is getting. Truly amazing stuff. Thank you.
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QOTD - Gertrude Stein
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From SKYE user Giuseppe Levi
Travel scratches a particular itch. Photos from all over help that itch too.
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APP of the DAY - Simple Bracket
Now live in the iTunes Store for $.99: Download here
From the project's KICKSTARTER:
Simple Bracket is an iPhone app for filling in college basketball tournament brackets and competing with friends and family.
Looks simple, slick and fun, if you like March Madness of course. Get in on the KICKSTARTER for extras too.
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5 - Shattered Glass Animals
Reminds me a lot of the animals made of shattered CDs (to the right), that we covered last year, only much sharper.
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POTD - How the Pope is Chosen by James Tate
How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate
Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy.
Almost always a toy is an imitation
of something grown-ups use.
Popes with unclipped hair are called “corded popes.”
If a Pope’s hair is allowed to grow unchecked,
it becomes extremely long and twists
into long strands that look like ropes.
When it is shorter it is tightly curled.
Popes are very intelligent.
There are three different sizes.
The largest are called standard Popes.
The medium-sized ones are called miniature Popes.
I could go on like this, I could say:
“He is a squarely built Pope, neat,
well-proportioned, with an alert stance
and an expression of bright curiosity,”
but I won’t. After a poodle dies
all the cardinals flock to the nearest 7-Eleven.
They drink Slurpies until one of them throws up
and then he’s the new Pope.
He is then fully armed and rides through the wilderness alone,
day and night in all kinds of weather.
The new Pope chooses the name he will use as Pope,
like “Wild Bill” or “Buffalo Bill.”
He wears red shoes with a cross embroidered on the front.
Most Popes are called “Babe” because
growing up to become a Pope is a lot of fun.
All the time their bodies are becoming bigger and stranger,
but sometimes things happen to make them unhappy.
They have to go to the bathroom by themselves,
and they spend almost all of their time sleeping.
Parents seem incapable of helping their little popes grow up.
Fathers tell them over and over again not to lean out of windows,
but the sky is full of them.
It looks as if they are just taking it easy,
but they are learning something else.
What, we don’t know, because we are not like them.
We can’t even dress like them.
We are like red bugs or mites compared to them.
We think we are having a good time cutting cartoons out of the paper,
but really we are eating crumbs out of their hands.
We are tiny germs that cannot be seen under microscopes.
When a Pope is ready to come into the world,
we try to sing a song, but the words do not fit the music too well.
Some of the full-bodied popes are a million times bigger than us.
They open their mouths at regular intervals.
They are continually grinding up pieces of the cross
and spitting them out. Black flies cling to their lips.
Once they are elected they are given a bowl of cream
and a puppy clip. Eyebrows are a protection
when the Pope must plunge through dense underbrush
in search of a sheep.
One of the most prodigious and wryest voices writing in American poetry, Tate has a tone that challenges and invigorates.
SKYE Photos of the Day - NEMO
The snow keeps on coming.
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1 - Monolation: Hyperlapse Extraordinaire
In 2012, director and photographer Jess Dunlap capture over 17k photos in such gorgeous spots as Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Convict Lake, June Lake, Mono Lake, Simi Valley, and Owens Valley to create this 4-minute time-lapse video titled Monolation.
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2 - Macro Photographs of Starfish Details
Semenov says about his underwater photography:
When I first began to experiment with sea life photography I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old DSLR camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates under water and then I’ve shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure I ended up with a few good pictures, which I’ve showed to the crew. It has inspired us to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. Thus I’ve spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you’re working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Eventually I began to get interesting photos — one or two from each dive. Now after four years of practice I get a few good shots almost every time I dive but I still have a lot of things that need to be mastered in underwater photography.
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Phuket, Nashville, Trondheim Norway, Ft. Lauderdale and Manhattan Beach, CA.
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3 - Time Dance
Amazing short film titled "Choros":
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike "pas de trente-deux."
"Choros" premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012 and has gone on to play dozens of festivals worldwide. The film is currently broadcast in Europe by Canal+.
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The Grand Canyon, The Dominican Republic, snowy lanes of Indiana, Guatemala City and Taipei 101 shrouded in mist.
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4 - Mountains in Motion
From Doug Urquhart and Paul Zizka, makers of the short film “Mountains in Motion”:
"Hours and even months of change lapses in a matter of seconds, providing the viewer with a rare insight into the ever-changing nature of the landscape. Weaving throughout the film are reflections of an early mountaineer, who is deeply moved by his own encounter with the mountains and the revelations of explorers who have come before him. “What is this power that lures me upwards, into the unknown,” he wonders, “that pulls me deeper, despite snow, wind and exhaustion?”
Made on a shoestring budget and with entirely volunteer hours, the film brought together artists from two vastly different parts of North America – Banff, Alberta, and Atlanta, Georgia. Strangers at the start, the film team developed strong friendships over the course of production and were united by their common goal of capturing the beauty and essence of a place that inspires them every day.
This 100% human-powered film combines advanced time-lapse photography with an original story and musical score to bring the landscape center-stage and offers a thrilling new perspective that re-establishes the Canadian Rockies among the finest mountains in the world."
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