November 16, 2009 – 12:58 pm
This explosive picture shows the moment a hasty crocodile was killed after getting trapped in a maze of angry, angry hippos.
The spectacularly rare battle of the beasts was caught on camera by stunned wildlife photographer Vaclav Silha.
The 45 -year-old Czech got the shock of his life after setting up his camera on the [...]
November 4, 2009 – 3:28 pm
Piecing together 3000 individual photographs has made a new panoramic image of the Milky Way. Dr. Axel Mellinger, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics at Central Michigan University, spent 22 months and traveled over 26 000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan from 2007-2009.
The [...]
September 21, 2009 – 12:07 am
At first sight these stunning pictures appear to show soldiers in the army getting out of the trenches. But in reality it’s all yummy cakes and gooey puddings imaginatively transformed into a variety of landscapes by food artists Akiki Ida, 37, and Pierre Javelle, 39.
Devoting hundreds of hours to tricking onlookers since 2002, [...]
September 15, 2009 – 1:33 am
Extreme weather photographer and storm chaser Jim Reed has spent the last 20 years being as close as possible, and perhaps closer than is advisable, to the most extreme meteorological events.
Covering disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike, Reed’s book Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey documents his time in the field.
Surviving the [...]
September 2, 2009 – 1:19 pm
A crying face is revealed in an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.
A melting glacier has amazingly taken on the form of a face — worryingly resembling Mother Nature in tears at the state of our planet.
The stunning image shocked onlookers who felt the vivid pattern in the [...]
Amateur photographer Marco Fulle’s stunning series of photos show Krakatoa as it erupte last month (June 2009).
Marcoe is an astronomer who spends most of his time gazing at comets but he has another love — volcanoes and in particular Krakatoa in Indonesia.
The 36-year-old loves to spend time photographing the volcano especially getting constellations [...]