Extraordinary time-lapse photography by Lincoln Harrison, who spent up to 15 hours shooting the stars in the desolate Australian wilderness and then combined hundreds of pictures of both the stars and the object in the foreground to create these amazing star-trail images. The spirals are the result of the earth’s rotation.
Copyright © Lincoln Harrison/Caters News, found here, where you will find more photos
Bacteria biofilm: This confocal micrograph shows Bacillus subtilis, a rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in soil. Distinct lineages of bacteria expressing different fluorescent proteins were initially mixed randomly on a petri dish.
Photo copyright © National News and Pictures, found here
This photo of the Kramerstuben in Hamburg was taken with a homemade “Trashcam”, an 1,100 liter dumpster that has been transformed into pinhole camera by Hamburg garbage men.
See more photos at their Flickr page.
Astronaut Andre Kuipers installed ‘Nightpod’ - a motorised camera that compensates for the hurtling speeds of the ISS (6.5 kilometres per second), by tracking points on Earth’s surface. The results are some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken from space
- Picture 1 shows Europe at night, as seen from 250 miles up with parts of the ISS in the foreground
- Picture 2 shows shows UK and Ireland by night, with the Aurora Borealis
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2129386/Moonset.html#ixzz1s2RiYEn7
Ivy on a window of an art exhibition building in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photo by my favourite photographer runintherain, re-post because of copyright issues.
Salmon’s eye view of a swimming Alaskan bear taken in Katmai National Park by photographer extraordinaire Paul Souders with a radio remote-controlled camera attached to a ballasted tripod. The amazing picture was runner-up in the ‘Underwater World’ category at the BBC Wildlife Photo-award 2011.
