Los Angeles based designer Dan Marker-Moore shot this absolutely stunning collage of 11 frames of a timelapse of the full moon ascending over Downtown Los Angeles.
He used an Olympus OMD-EM5 camera and a 100mm lens.
And the timelapse itself is worth every delicious second.
Time lapse of a full moon rising behind downtown LA. Shot on OMD EM5 m/43 camera and a 100mm lens
This murmuration happened just yesterday in the skies above Israel.
This is a murmuration. A flock of starlings in this case that fly in tight, dance-like formations. These amazing photos from murmurations around the world and these two amazing videos aren't even close to the real experience.
Photos by AP Photo/Oded Balilty, David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images, Patrick Pleul/AFP/Getty Images, Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images, Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images, Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images, Reuters/Amir Cohen, AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda and AP Photo/Scott Heppell.
Find more of my work here: http://www.mikeolbinski.com Also follow me on Instragram for storm photos and whatnot - http://instagram.com/mikeolbinski Still print of this storm can be found here if interested: http://gallery.mikeolbinski.com/stormchasing/h6015e87e#h6015e87e It took four years but I finally got it. A rotating supercell. And not just a rotating supercell, but one with insane structure and amazing movement. I've been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it's just for a day, or three, or two...but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I'd been looking for. And boy did we find it. No, there was no tornado. But that's not really what I was after. I'm from Arizona. We don't get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth. We chased this storm from the wrong side (north) and it took us going through hail and torrential rains to burst through on the south side. And when we did...this monster cloud was hanging over Texas and rotating like something out of Close Encounters. The timelapse was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. It's broken up into four parts. The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could. One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing. A few miles south is where part two picks up. And I didn't realize how fast it was moving south, so part three is just me panning the camera to the left. During that third part you can see dust along the cornfield being pulled into the storm as well...part of the strong inflow. The final part is when the storm had started dying out and we shot lightning as it passed over us. Between the third and fourth portions we drove through Booker, Texas where tornado sirens were going off...it was creepy as all heck. And intense. I hope you enjoy this. Once thing I've learned about timelapsing is that I always wish it would be longer or wouldn't end. I wish I had been south and been able to record this storm come at me for 45 minutes. But I love it the way it is. I wasn't ever certain I'd see structure like this even though it's been such a goal of mine. But we did it. And by we, I mean myself and my buddy Andy Hoeland, who knows his crap and got us into position so we could chase this storm. Without him along I don't know if I get this timelapse.
Arizona photographer Mike Olbinski got this amazing video of the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell near Booker, Texas on June 3.
With a flexible spine and feet like tire treads, the cheetah is built not only for speed - but for unrivaled acceleration.
My daughter just finished a report on cheetahs for her kindergarten class. This is one of the videos she found in her research.
Her research spurred me to revisit and understand better something I had come across years ago: The idea that the words cheetah and poem come from the same Indo-European root words.
Bradshaw of the Future explains:
The Proto-Indo-European root is *kʷei-, "to pile up, build, make". The o-grade form *kʷoi- became Sanskrit काय kāya "body", which combined with चित्र citra "variegated , spotted , speckled" to formचित्रकाय citrakāya "striped-body, tiger or panther". This became Hindi चीता cītā, borrowed into English ascheetah.
The suffixed form *kʷoiw-eyo- became Greek ποιέω poieō "to create" and ποιημα poiēma, borrowed into Latin as poēma, borrowed into English as poem thru French.
We were out testing some www.Tonaboards.com when we were surrounded by a family of humpback whales. (3 adults and a calf) What an amazing and unforgettable experience. www.facebook.com/tonalife www.tonaboards.com
Humpbacks: Three adults and a calf pop up to say hello.
15 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, a pod of Orcas trap a family of Sperm Whales. The action intensifies as the Orcas slam into the Sperm Whales, working as a unit to try and separate an individual and take down their prey.
Photographer Shawn Heinrichs off the coast of Sri Lanka captured a world's first: photographs of a pod of killer whales attacking a pod of sperm whales.
"The attack was violent and disturbing as the panicked Sperm Whales were clearly no match for speed and maneuverability of the orcas.”
April 19, 2013, Five to Six Orcas (Killer Whales) attack a pod of six Sperm whales of the coast of Sri Lanka. Go to this video by my brother Shawn Heinrichs of Blue Sphere Media to see the full story and incredible underwater action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq6D9sjzj6M) See the Wired Magazine story here: (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/orca-v-sperm-whale/).
Uploaded by timelapseearth on 2012-05-28.
Watching ice form and water flow in timelapse is fascinating, and in HD it's gorgeous.
I have just been 4 weeks in Patagonia with my very good friend Stine. We have been trekking a lot, walked on such a variety of different surfaces throw all kinds of beautiful nature scenes. We have trekked the circuit around Torres Del Paine in Chile, the Cerro Fitz Roy trip in Argentina and one day on the Glacier Perito Moreno. What a fantastic place, so much space to discover..... Ps: The two guys in the ending is Stefan & Christian, both from Germany. Filmed on Nikon D800 with the 24-70mm 2,8 and the 70-200mm 2,8VR Music: Efterklang- Cutting ice to snow Enjoy
Torres Del Paine in Chile, the Cerro Fitz Roy trip in Argentina and the Glacier Perito Moreno.
Stunning.
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