Storm Surge Like You’ve Never Experienced it Before
Hurricane Florence could bring up to 13 feet or more of storm surge to the Carolina coast. What does that look like? We show you like nobody else can.
Nature
Lovely Smoke Art
First, lets see how a NATURAL smoke can be made to look so wonderful – without any Photoshop manipulations. Sometimes all it takes is a good high-speed strobe flash and a correct exposure to capture ambient light. more pictures at darkroastedblend
Monster spider web spun in Texas
Monster spider web Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park. Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for […]
Puppies and Flowers : A Cute Binturong Cub
Fueled by her favourite diet of grapes, Taronga Zoo’s new binturong cub explored her enclosure today like a “wound-up toy”. The jet-black cub, named Indah, was making her public debut just one month after becoming the Sydney zoo’s first binturong born in captivity. The jet-black cub, named Indah, was […]
Dixon’s landmark corn maze is the world’s largest
From the SacBee: Interstate 80’s most famous Halloween roadside attraction has retained its place in the record books. Cool Patch Pumpkins’ epic corn maze has been certified once again as the world’s largest, according to Guinness World Records. Now at 63 acres, the corn maze created by brothers Matt and […]
BBC apologizes for talking on-air about a plant known as a – black man’s willy
From the article: Gardeners’ Question Time is not normally known for turning the airwaves blue. But panellists on the Radio 4 show had to fight off fits of giggles as they talked about, otherwise known as Black Man’s Willy. Panellist Bob Flowerdew ended up admitting he had ‘only ever seen […]
Eyescapes by Rankin
“Eyescapes” is a series of photographs of irises. It’s a project by Rankin, London-based photographer and co-founder of the magazine Dazed & Confused.
Puppies and Flowers : Flamingo hatchling
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A Monkey and A White Tiger Cub
Anjana, a chimpanzee who takes care of wild feline cubs at the Institute of Greatly Endangered Species in South Carolina, adopted Mitra and Shiva, two baby white tigers who survived a hurricane and were separated from their mother. Besides tigers, Anjana has raised both lions and leopards. Her zoo keeper […]
Jim Denevan – The Earth is his Canvas
First up, a selection of photos from The Sand Series Next up, a selection of photos from the 2008 and 2009 Black Rock Desert installations. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Jim Denevan creates temporary drawings on sand, earth, and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. These drawings […]