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Gabriel Zaparolli took this striking long-exposure photo of a lightning storm over the outskirts of Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during the evening of June 10, 2018. I found it on the kottke.org web log.
Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
The awesome beauty of a lightning storm
August 11, 2018A brave little kidney bean becomes a plant
August 4, 2018I found this video on the kottke.org blog. It is a time-lapse photo of a kidney bean sprouting into a plant, shot at the rate of one shot every 9 minutes 36 seconds and played at the rate of 30 frames per second.
The little bean seems strangely gallant to me. It makes me feel proud to be a carbon-based life form.
Cute harvest mice among the tulips
May 5, 2018
These cute pictures were taken by a British animal photographer named Miles Herbert. Looking at them made me smile. He does business as Captivelight. His other specialties are frogs, reptiles and birds of prey.
I found this set of photos on the Bored Panda web site, which posted a gallery of 20 of Herbert’s mouse-and-tulip photos in all.
30 days of a cargo ship at sea
January 27, 2018I found this on the deMilked web site. It consists of time-lapse photos of the travels of a cargo ship from the Gulf of Aden to Hong Kong, with stops along the way.
Winter in Japan
January 20, 2018In pursuit of American stormscapes
October 21, 2017These amazing time-lapse videos were created last spring by Mike Olbinski, who chases storms each spring on the Great Plains, and has a second job as a wedding photographer in Phoenix. Arizona. I came across his work on a National Geographic web site.
Fall foliage in New York’s Central Park
September 23, 2017These time-lapse photos were taken by Jamie Scott. over a period of six months in Central Park in New York City. He visited 15 locations, two days a week, just after sunrise, from August, 2011, through January, 2012. The music is by Lower Dens. I found this video on the Colossal website.
Wit and wisdom on church signs
September 16, 2017
These photos of church signs were collected on the Bored Panda website.
A cloud inversion in the Grand Canyon
June 24, 2017On rare days, cold air is trapped in the Grand Canyon under a layer of warm air which, in combination with moisture and condensation, create what’s called a full cloud inversion, which resembles something in between ocean waves and fast-moving clouds. Beautiful!
Click on Colossal for still photos and background information.
Flowers that bloom in the spring
May 13, 2017These time-lapse photos were taken by Jamie Scott over a period of three years. The background music is an original composition by Jim Perkins. I found this video on the Colossal and kottke.org web sites.
The strange beauty of the Martian landscape
March 18, 2017Hat tip to kottke.org.
Click on this and this for more by photographer Jan Fröjdman.
The beauty of fog
February 18, 2017
I never thought of fog as beautiful. Or that it could come in waves.
These photographs were taken by Nick Steinberg over an eight-year period in the San Francisco Bay area, using high peaks such as Mount Tamalpais as his vantage point. What a labor of love that must have been!
It’s good to remember that there are other things in the world besides politics and economics.
Seeing with an eye of an eagle
February 4, 2017An eagle with a Sony video camera flew off the top of Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, in Dubai, enabling us to (sort of) see what an eagle in flight sees. It’s too bad there is no footage of the eagle’s last few feet of flight before landing, but the footage is still something to see.
A photographer who paints with light
January 28, 2017North of the Arctic Circle in Finland, there is a period of about 50 days when the sun never rises above the horizon, known as the Polar Night.
Artist and photographer Hannu Huhtamo uses this period of darkness to paint with light. He makes his strange and haunting works of art by making a long-exposure photograph of a moving bright light source against a dim background.
LINKS
Hannu Huhtamo Photography. His website.
Light Painting Artist Hannu Huhtamo | Light Painting Photography. An interview.
This Photographer Paints With Light in the Finnish Polar Night by Lisa Lanot for Konbini.
Polar Night and Midnight Sun articles on Wikipedia.
Kittens in mid-pounce
October 29, 2016
Winning underwater photography of the year
March 5, 2016Organizers of the 2016 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest shared some winning entries with The Atlantic’s In Focus feature.
Davide Lopresti’s photograph of a seahorse was the overall winner. It was taken off Trieste, Italy, in a part of the Mediterranean set aside for the restocking of this endangered species.
Moon over Australia
October 24, 2015Hat tip to my expatriate e-mail pen pal Jack and his friend Marty.
The beauty of the night sky
October 17, 2015
Bertrand Russell once wrote that when he was depressed about the follies of the human race, he restored his spirits by contemplating the beauty and majesty of the starry heaves and distant galaxies.
For more pictures like this, click on Photographer Dave Lane captures beauty of Milky Way above US National Parks from the Daily Mail Online.
Vertical panoramas of churches
October 4, 2015
The wonders of weather
September 30, 20151. Brinicle
Brinicles are the underwater equivalent of icicles. They form beneath ice when a flow of saline water is introduced to ocean water.
2. Volcanic Lightning
Volcanic plumes produce immense amounts of electrical charge and static. In rare cases, this can spark a violent lightning storm.
3. Sprites, Elves and Blue Jets
These colorful shapes are the result of electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
The world at night
September 27, 2015
Is this the most beautiful library in the world?
September 26, 2015
Source: Bored Panda.
I like libraries and bookstores, and I like to post pictures of libraries and bookstores.
Above and below are pictures of the Klementinum Library in Prague, established in 1722 as part of the Jesuit college there. It houses an estimated 20,000 books (I’d guess there are more).
Something you don’t see every day
August 22, 2015
Photographer: Greg McCown.
Hat tip to Mike the Mad Biologist.
There are more things in heaven and earth worth noticing than the crimes and follies of the powerful.
Dolphins enjoy surfing
August 15, 2015Hat tip to kottke.org.
The longest bridge in the world
July 18, 2015
Source: The Top Tenz
The Danyang-Kushan Grand Bridge, completed in China in 2010 and opened to traffic in 2011, is 102.4 miles long. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bridge in the world.
It crosses rice paddies, canals, rivers and lakes in southeastern coastal China, and provides a link in the Shanghai-Beijing High-Speed Railway.
Source: Wikipedia.
The world’s second longest bridge, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the Tianjin Grand Bridge, also a link in the Shanghai-Beijing High-Speed Railway. It is 70.6 miles long.
