Category: Nature and global warming
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The amazing show of Nature
I can’t stop being amazed by the beauty of Nature. Planet Earth presents such an unbelievable diversity of shows, such a superb collection of small and large moments of pure beauty. Here are some I would like to share with you. did you know that beaches may really have all possible colours that your mind…
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Hug a shark today!
Sharks are amazing killing machines, very efficient predators of the seas. But they are not only that. They also have some behaviors that could be described as interesting, astonishing, amazing, curious or mind-boggling (depending on your state of mind and what you think about the interaction between sharks and divers). YouTube link May I parallel…
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A giant stingray
So, scuba divers, did you dive on a stingray as beautiful as this one already? YouTube link
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Paddy field, high or wide?
Sometimes an image (from Nepal or elsewhere) hesitates on the better orientation to give to the photographer. Which one of these two Nepalese paddy fields would you choose?
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Energy conservation in ads
There could be waste in the most surprising places. So, don’t waste, use electricity wisely. Via FAIL Blog.
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The invasion of the Giant Jellyfish
No! This is not the title of Hollywood next horror flick. This is a sad reality around Japan. According to National Geographic, for reasons that are not entirely understood giant jellyfish like the ones photographed below are observed in great quantities. They need to be harvested by boat…
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Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro
A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.
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Fly like an eagle
…but I couldn’t fly. Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles. Link to YouTube And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…
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Big Earth
True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download…