Alex Wild, writer of the website Myrmecos, and entomologist and photographer extraordinaire, is having a special sale on his photographic prints, and they are doozies: nature at its most weird and wonderful. There are 30 on sale, and here’s a shot of the lot of them: The prices are ridiculously low: about $16 for an […]
Taken from my crib on Monday evening (click to enlarge). It will also be drizzling today as my bus to Purdue wends its way across Indiana.
The “Earth News” section of the Telegraph has a nice series of pictures of insect eyes: “Bug-eyed: Macrophotographs of insects by Ireneusz Irass Walędzik”. They’re wonderful. The series has 18 pictures, and I’ll show seven. Not all are identified in the Torygraph, so readers with entomological expertise can add their IDs. All photographs are credited […]
Take three minutes to watch this BBC Four video of deep sea creatures. There are some truly bizarre ones here, including a transparent squid, a jellyfish with tentacles 40 meters long (!), and a crustacean that makes its home inside the purloined body of a jellyfish: The deep sea is the last great frontier for […]
The weather is finally turning springish here, and the time change allows me to be home at sunset. Here are photos from the last two evenings (click to enlarge): Tuesday: Last night:
Maybe a reader can identify this owl bird (see comment below, apparently not an owl), as it’s too blurry for me. A nice picture from 500px: h/t: SGM
Another fantastic photo (click to enlarge) taken from the International Space Station and appearing yesterday on Commander Chris Hadfield’s Facebook page. I still can’t get over social media in space! His caption: Chicago, a bright spot on the tip of Lake Michigan, glowing through the clouds. h/t: SGM
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but the press of other tasks has prevented me. “One cat, three lives” was a photo-documentary in the March 8 New York Times (20 pictures total) that recounted the life of a photographer with his cat—from its kittenhood to its grave. In the meantime, the photographer […]
I love mimicry, for it shows very graphically the power of natural selection, and is one of the few cases in which we can judge how close natural selection can take an animal or plant toward its “optimum”—which is presumably to resemble as closely as possible the creature it’s mimicking. These examples of ant-mimicking arthropods […]
This picture of Chicago was tweeted from the International Space Station by Commander Chris Hadfield. (Tweets from space!). It shows Chicago from space orbit (click to enlarge), and was taken yesterday. Hadfield’s note: Chicago on a clear winter’s day, ice on the shore, busy O’Hare airport visible from orbit. O’Hare is obvious, about halfway up […]
