The Blue Ocean in RED by Howard Hall (watch it full screen)
Water boatman (Corixidae sp.) viewed in reflected light. Photo by Charles Krebs. Via Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2011.
Common fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta) from OTSB net trawl at a depth of 2,600 meters.
Picture: David Shale/Steve Bloom Images (via).
Viewed from “Eureka,” the largest airship in the world, the vibrantly-colored Cargill Salt Flats of Redwood City, California present a Mondrian-esque scene. After over a century of salt production, Cargill Salt announced plans in 2006 to decommission the flats. Now, five years later, environmentalists want the 1433-acre plot to be restored as bay wetlands, while Cargill hopes to develop housing for 30,000 residents.
Photo by Omari Stephens. From the photo collection “Infrastructure” on Pictory. (Source, via.)
Three Months of Winter on the Charles River. Photo by Bremner Benedict. (via)
This past summer, Kenji Aoki photographed a live 5-foot bluefin tuna for a New York Times cover story. The fish was kept still using acupuncture and was fed through a tube in the back of its mouth.
Oceanscape by Renate Aller. (via)
“A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Crude oil flowed from a hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico for three months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank on April 20th, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)”
“The Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition recently announced its list of winners for 2010. The competition began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope.”
Above: Magnified 10 times, a view of Dolichopodid sp. (fly) eyes made by Laurie Knight of Tonbridge, Kent, UK.
Via The Big Picture at Boston.com.
(Source: nofavorite)
