Great wildlife photos from njwight - who I must admit I found and followed on tumblr initially because I thought he/she was a New Jersey photographer.
Turned out that nj is not from NJ at all - Nancie Wight - read all about her— and follow her tumblr for more photos.
Strange and wonderful circumhorizontal arc over Mount St. Helens, by andorus on Flickr.
An atmospheric phenomenon that occurs when sunlight passes through the ice crystals in the clouds, which act as tiny prisms and refract the light.
Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean
In his new book about his process, out next week, Beautiful Whale
Why is it disturbing? Because, as Austin puts it, the whale challenges him “to reevaluate our perceptions of intelligent, conscious life on this planet.” This mammal’s eye — lens, cornea, pupil, retina, photoreceptors and ganglion nerve cells — is a direct passageway into its brain. And when we look at it, Austin can’t help but see an intelligence there, a connection to a brain that, perhaps, works enough like ours for us to understand each other.
Read more. [Images: Bryant Austin/studio/True Blue Films]
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![“Behold the hands: how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”
—Michel de Montaigne [photo: Patrick Shaw]
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“Behold the hands: how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”
—Michel de Montaigne [photo: Patrick Shaw]
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If you don’t let the Easter bunny in, you don’t get anything in your basket. That’s the rule.
Carl Mydans | Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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New Yorkers: On April 2, Milk Gallery will present the work of Dennis Stock.
Shown is James Dean in NYC.
More iconic images of James Dean.
(Dennis Stock—Magnum)
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might be nice to time travel back to 1948 and spend some time with a milkman and his terrier (Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor, National Geographic)
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