This photo was taken in my back yard during the annular solar eclipse on Sunday evening. The tree leaves and our fingers acted as pseduo-pinhole cameras which projected the eclipse’s image on the wall resulting in these funky crescent-shaped shadows.
Life On The Edge is a series of vertigo inducing photographs by Detroit based photographer Dennis Maitland. They are beautiful but they also kind of make you want to puke.
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NASA has recently published highest resolution image of the Earth from space ever. The 64-megapixel image of Earth was captured by the VIIRS instrument on NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, the Suomi NPP. You can read more about the Suomi NPP at its official website.
Photo via NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Make sure to see this sucker full size to really appreciate the details and download it for your desktop. We all live in a beautiful place.
Photo Credit: Bruce McAllister
This photo is from the Documerica Project (1971-1977) put together by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s. The images taken for the project can now be found in the U.S. National Archives.
I really dig this crowd surfing photo taken by James Keivom at the Big 4 Festival in Bronx, NY. The heavy metal awesomeness took place earlier this month at Yankee Stadium and featured Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer.
Photo credit: James Keivom
It is the last day of Lightning Safety Awareness Weak. The photo above is an image sequence, by Chris Kotsiopoloulos, containing 70 lightning shots. It was taken at Ikaria island during a severe thunderstorm. Fire in the sky!
Just putting this here for memorandum. A photo of my first In-N-Out Burger eaten on October 13th, 2005. Consumed at 4888 Dean Martin Dr Las Vegas, NV 89103.
File Under: Hamburger Memories
I caught the New Pornographers at the Fox Theater in Boulder the other night. It was a great show. I like this photo I took mostly because the drummer is rocking out on guitar and the keyboardist has her accordion on.
I love this photochrome print of the Denver Skyline circa 1898. Click the image for a larger version – it’s huge and shows some incredible detail. The image comes from the Library of Congress’s photochrome prints collection.
Photo credit: Noel Carboni
The image above, click it for a wallpaper sized version, is a composite of 15 exposures digitally stitched together. According to photographer Noel Carboni:
Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.
Since it was taken at the camera’s most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop’s Image – Adjust – Hue/Saturation function.
The fascinating color differences along the lunar surface are real, though highly exaggerated, corresponding to regions with different chemical compositions. And while these color differences are not visible to the eye even with a telescope, moon watchers can still see a dramatic lunar presentation tonight thanks to a fluke of orbital mechanics that brings the moon closer to Earth than that it has been in more than 18 years. At its peak, the supermoon of March 2011 may appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than lesser full moons. However, to the casual observer, it will probably be hard to tell the difference.
