Jacques of all Trades

inothernews:

STREAK PERFORMANCE  A composite of long-exposure photos of planet Earth, as seen from the International Space Station, showing lights from cities and thunderstorms, and also star trails.  (Photo: Don Pettit NASA via The Telegraph)

inothernews:

BUT NO CIGAR  Lightning strikes a residential building in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.  The photographer, who had taken shelter from the storm, snapped this photo from a mere 100 meters away.  (Photo: Luke Wormold / Guzelian via The Telegraph)

A parking meter pokes out of a snow bank during a blizzard on Feb. 9 in Portland, Maine. The storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon, breaking the record for the biggest storm on record. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) # (via Snowstorm dumps on Northeast - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Surprisingly Beautiful Portraits of Frying Pan Bottoms – Flavorwire

(h/t Anne M)

theanimalblog:

Red Squirrel. Photo by Mike Killy

(via nonrequired-reading)

travelmind:

Where is that ?
I want to go there.

Found it:

Hidden beach , Marieta Island, off the coast of Mexico

Finally, someone’s identified the photographer too. Excellent. It’s Thomas Porty

(Source: airows)

guardian:

Down in one. A seagull slowly swallows a starfish at dusk on Wharf No. 2 in Monterey, California.

From picture desk: live, our team’s pick of the best newsworthy images of the day.

Photograph: David Royal/AP

 Nature

good:

Photos: A Colorful Winter—Beautiful Fruit and Vegetable Still Lifes
- Yasha Wallin posted in Creativity, Living and Food

‘A Colorful Winter’ by photographer Florent Tanet comes right in time has winter finally hit, everything is grey and drab and we lack some playful colors. Inspired by a luxury comestibles boutique in the famous Le Bon Marché department store in Paris, Tanet arranged every day fruits and vegetables into graphic patterns, successively sculptures and still lives.

(Source: ignant.de)

crookedindifference:

Montage of Voyager Images

This montage of images taken by the Voyager spacecraft of the planets and four of Jupiter’s moons is set against a false-color Rosette Nebula with Earth’s moon in the foreground. Studying and mapping Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and many of their moons, Voyager provided scientists with better images and data than they had ever had before or expected from the program. Although launched sixteen days after Voyager 2, Voyager 1’s trajectory was a faster path, arriving at Jupiter in March 1979. Voyager 2 arrived about four months later in July 1979. Both spacecraft were then directed to Saturn with Voyager 1 arriving in November 1980 and Voyager 2 in August 1981. Voyager 2 was then diverted to the remaining gas giants, Uranus in January 1986 and Neptune in August 1989. Data collection continues by both Voyager 1 and 2 as the renamed Voyager Interstellar Mission searches for the edge of the solar wind influence (the heliopause) and exits the Solar System. A shortened list of the discoveries of Voyager 1 and 2 include:the discovery of the Uranian and Neptunian magnetospheres (magnetic environments caused by various types of planet cores); the discovery of twenty-two new satellites including three at Jupiter, three at Saturn, ten at Uranus, and six at Neptune; Io was found to have active volcanism (the only other Solar System body than Earth to be confirmed); Triton was found to have active geyser-like structures and an atmosphere; Auroral Zones (where gases become excited after being hit by solar particles) were discovered at Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune; Jupiter was found to have rings; Neptune, originally thought to be too cold to support such atmospheric disturbances, had large-scale storms.

(via itsfullofstars)

archiemcphee:

Holy awesome macro shot, Batman! Flickr user sleepychinchilla photographed this teeny-tiny hermit crab (and its sweet spiral shell home) on the island of Olhuveli in the Maldives in 2008. 

[via Twisted Sifter]

Key Bridge was being built between Georgetown and Rosslyn. Construction started in 1917 and completed in 1923. Below is a shot from Georgetown looking towards the Washington Monument, which you can see in the distance. (via Key Bridge Under Construction - Ghosts of DC)

(h/t Georgetown Metropolitan)