Christopher Coleman

“Silent Evolution” sculptures (pictured in October) sit in just 30 feet (9 meters) of water, which allows visitors in glass-bottomed boats to also observe the artwork, according to a museum statement.

Boatbound visitors can also see big schools of fish above the statues, Taylor said.

“If there’re any sorts of predators or any danger, [the fish] sort of drop below and then hide out in the [statues’] feet area.”

Beautiful shot of Tuscany…I need to get back there someday soon!

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Tuscany, Italy
Photo: Jure Kravanja

When I was driving last year through Tuscany, Italy, I suddenly saw this beautiful image.

The perfect illustration for “he who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not worthy.”

Amazing shadow cast by Mt. Rainier

© Frans Lanting. Geyser at Dawn, Nevada.

Lightning over Puyehue-Cordon Caulle or the deep breath before the plunge?  You decide.

1000 YEAR OLD SNOW

This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.

Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.

Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.

Truly amazing photo! Photo of the Day: The Blue Dragon

Odeleite River, Por­tu­gal. Photo by Steve Richards.

TIE Fighter orbiting the earth?

Ok…it’s really an amazing shot of the recent solar eclipse which reveals the ISS.  

But when I first saw the image, I said, “Whoa…TIE Fighter.”

Are you real? Good question.