Friday 11 July 2014
Thursday 10 July 2014
Wednesday 9 July 2014
A hummingbird confronting a pit viper has gained him an enormous amount of attention.
Of 338 known species, approximately
50 types of these birds live or breed in the tropical lowlands and cloud
forests of Costa Rica, where arboreal vipers also live amid the thick foliage.
This remarkable photograph of a hummingbird confronting a pit viper has gained
him an enormous amount of attention. The vivid colors were produced by cleverly
utilizing flashes and something that is hard to master, but is no problem for
Bence.
Bence Máté is well-known as one
of the world’s greatest wildlife photographers. In the BBC Wildlife
Photographer of the Year competition alone, Bence has placed a total of 17
times and counting. Bence Mate took the title of “Young Wildlife Photographer
of the Year” in 2002, and then the adult prize of “Wildlife Photographer of the
Year” in 2010.
A roseate spoonbill meanders across the wet sand on an early morning in Fort De Soto, Florida
A roseate spoonbill meanders across the wet sand on an early morning in Fort De Soto, Florida,
Lady Musgrave Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Lady Musgrave Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Lady
Musgrave Island is a 14 hectares coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier
Reef, with a 1,192 hectares surrounding reef. The island is the second
island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands, and is most easily
reached from the town of 1770, Queensland, located on approximately 5
hours north of Brisbane. It is named for the wife of Sir Anthony
Musgrave, a colonial governor of Queensland.
Letchworth State Parks middle falls on the Genesee River, New York State, USA
Monday 7 July 2014
Mount Everest
Straddling the border between Nepal and Tibet, Mount
Everest (named in 1856 in honor of Sir George Everest responsible for
triangulation of British Indies) is the highest mountain peak in the
world that the Sherpas climb proudly at the head tourist expeditions as
final prayers in honor of the "Sea Goddess of the Earth" (Chomolungma)
providing food to the people from his high astral top.
Sunday 6 July 2014
Passo Gardena is a high mountain pass elevation; 7008 feet in the Italian Dolomites
Passo Gardena is
a high mountain pass elevation; 7008 feet in the Italian Dolomites, connecting
Sëlva in the Val Gardena on the west side with Corvara in the Val Badia. The
mountains here are part of the Sella group. I had done some scouting here earlier
in the afternoon and couldn't surely decide what I wanted for a foreground; big
sheets of snow still leftover or rare patch of flowers that were beginning to
finally bloom; I clearly decided to go with the latter. I also went back and
forth about cloning out the car down there (my rental!), but thought it gave a
decent sense of scale here, so I kept it. It might wind up going back and axing
it, though. I wanted to stick around to shoot some stars after nightfall, but
temperatures rapidly dropped below freezing my hands and feet were numb at the
end of this photograph and I was sadly not equipped to spend hours out in that
kind of weather. Source: Chris Lazzery
K2 Mountain 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) GB, Himalaya Pakistan.
The
name K2 is derived from the notation used by the Great Trigonometric Survey. In
the 1850s Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram from Mount
Haramukh, some 130 miles to the south, and sketched the two most prominent
peaks, labeling them K1 and K2. It is famous as the Savage Mountain due to the
difficulty of ascent and the high fatality rate among those who climb it. Almost
every four people who have reached the K2 summit, one has died trying.
Saturday 5 July 2014
Chulyshman River is a river in Altai Republic in Russia.
Friday 4 July 2014
Lava flowing out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano
This beautiful photograph is taken on June 21, 2014, when it shows lava flowing out of the Piton de
la Fournaise volcano, one of the world's most active volcanoes, located
on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The Piton de la
Fournaise started to erupt early on June 21. (Photo by Richard
Bouhet/AFP Photo)
An Early Morning on Mount Zugspitze - High in the Alps, Germany
Tuesday 1 July 2014
NASA Releases Stunningly Colorized Photograph of Our Sun
NASA's SDO
(Solar Dynamics Observatory) has just released this stunning, painterly image
of the Sun. The Solar Dynamics observatory was designed to assist us to know
about the Sun's influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar
atmosphere. In this lovely image, NASA's sun-gazing spacecraft spotted an
unusual series of eruptions, forced by fast "puffs" from the Sun's
outermost atmosphere (the corona), to interplanetary space. It starts on
January 17, 2013, the puffs took place about once every 3 hours, and then after
twelve hours, larger eruptions occurred.
Nathalia
Alzate a solar scientist at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales said; if you
look at the corona in intense ultraviolet light we can review the source of the
puffs is a series of energetic jets and related flares. The jets are localized,
disastrous releases of energy that spew material out from the sun into space.
These swift changes in the magnetic field cause flares, which release an
enormous amount of energy in a very limited time in the form of super-heated
plasma, high-energy radiation and radio bursts. The large, slow structure is
unwilling to erupt, and does not originate to smoothly propagate outwards until
numerous jets have occurred.
We still need some time to evaluate whether
these’re shock waves, formed by the jets, passing through and driving the slow
eruption, or whether magnetic reconfiguration is driving the jets letting the
bigger, slow structure to slowly erupt. Many thanks to latest advances in
observation and in photo processing techniques we can throw light on the way
jets can lead to small and fast, or big and slow, eruptions from the Sun. She
continues; this spectacular photograph is a combination of three wavelengths of
light. It shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal
puffs. The striking photo has been colorized in red, green and blue.
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