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Death And Beauty

 

 

 

 

Photographs taken very carefully by Raphael Dellaporta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Young/Old Faces

 

 

 

 

Photo-montage by Ulric Collette.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day: KKK In EMS

 

 

Why the hippocratic oath exists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photobooth Self-Portrait

 

 

Relish the irony.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Oleg Dou

 

 

 

 Oleg Dou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Anthony Crossfield

 

 

 

Anthony Crossfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Shaking Dogs

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer Carli Davidson catches dogs mid-shake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bloggers Like Me

 

 

 

 

Oh I feel the cold white space of an unwritten new post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Bill Durgin

 

Bill Durgin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Pigeon Clock

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Adaptation: the evolutionary process whereby a species becomes better suited to its habitat; one of the basic phenomena of biology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Whale Handshake

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Notice how the whale is eyeballing the diver. This is not an unconscious act.

Make a nice logo for a whale protection NFP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We Heart Mars

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Site O' The Week : 3 Frames

 

 

 

 Upload your three frame .swf and you too can be famous.

 

3 Frames

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World War II Era Photos Meet Today

 

A series of photos created by Russian artist Sergey Larenkov features World War II era photos combined with recent shots of the same locations.

History is the lesson we seem to never learn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Destroyed Apples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Exploding Water Balloon

 

 

I see Fibonacci.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Sun Surface

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Witness a close-up of the sun as you've never seen it.

The twisting tubes, known as spicules, are fiery jets of fast-moving superheated gas that constantly burst from the solar surface.

At around 300 miles in diameter they spurt upwards from the sun at supersonic speeds of 45,000mph.

They can be likened to pipes of gas, each as wide as a small country and as long as half the Earth.

This picture, taken by astronomer Dr. Kevin Reardon, covers just 65,000 square miles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Underwater Park

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Green Lake in Tragoess, Austria, sits at the foot of the snow-capped Hochschwab mountains.

As soon as temperatures begin to rise in the spring, the ice and snow on the mountaintops melt and runs down into the park basin below.

The park fills up with as much as 10 meters of ice-cold, crystal clear water (the distinctive green coloring comes from the grass and foliage beneath.)

In June, when the waters are highest, it becomes a mecca for divers keen to explore  before the waters recede at the end of July.

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Talent You Should Know : Lester Bookbinder

Witness the perfectionist eye of still life photographer Lester Bookbinder. (Click to enlarge.)

Born in New York City in 1929 Lester trained with the photographer Reuben Samberg before opening his own studio in 1955. (Hiro was one of his early assistants).

In the swinging sixties he moved to London and his regular contributions to British Vogue were to prove highly influential.

Examples of his work are hard to find, but this 1976 composition is from an era long before Photoshop and was created entirely 'in camera.'

If you can find links to his work, please let me know.

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Stefano Unterthiner

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What animals do when we're not there.

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