Entries Tagged as ‘Nature’

November 10, 2008

60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography

Here are 60 cool examples of night photography, photos, created by some hard-working and dedicated photographers. Take a look at their websites and portfolios, and you’ll find some links to how-to articles about night photography at the bottom of the post.
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August 6, 2008

Chicago Lightning Strikes

Beautiful lightning images from a record-breaking storm in Chicago on Monday. This is the storm that delayed the Cubs game that night… major lightning! Impressive.
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June 28, 2008

Very Funny Ads – BBC Flying Penguins

A great spot from the BBC showing how they never miss anything exciting and now thanks to their internet player, you don’t have to either.  It’s well done and it happens to have Monty Python’s Terry Jones in it, which is a nice bonus.

April 25, 2008

Non-Turbine Wind Power Generator

Check out this video.  This is cool stuff!

December 24, 2007

Beautiful Photo of the Winter Solstice

This is pretty cool. Here is a link to the explanation page.  Although technically the winter solstice only lasts a moment, this photo shows the entire 24 hour period that occurs either during the shortest day or longest night of the year.
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November 20, 2007

An Amazing Lighthouse Story

At the Pidgeon Point Lighthouse they switch back to the old kerosene lamps once a year to test everything out. They then leave it in non-rotation so photographers can capture pictures like this one. Very nice! Read more about it.
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October 29, 2007

Earth Art: Weaving Architecture

The photos are cool although it is surprising that there are none by Andrew Goldsworthy. That just means that there are a lot more people doing this than you might have thought. Fun stuff.
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October 15, 2007

Pictures of a Treehouse Globe

This looks cool. The pictures show everything but don’t explain how to set-up this thing. Is it temporary or is this some kind of permanent installation? Nice design and fun to see what lengths people are going to, in order to live in the trees.
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September 24, 2007

3 Most Amazing 3D Street Artists in the World

This stuff is wild! Do you normally think of graffiti as subversive art spray-painted illegally on the walls of a city? Some artists, including Edgar Mueller, Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner, defy that stereotype, painting and chalking openly on city streets and sidewalks. Check out these brief bios with 20 amazing images of their [...]

September 13, 2007

3-D Fallingwater Video

Frank Lloyd Wright would love this video. It is a great creative work showing a classic bit of architecture using state of the art graphic animation. Wow! Is this art or nature or design or… it’s pretty much everything.