Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts

Monday, February 4, 2013

Immersion

The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp ‘Tøndermasken’ in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched. from the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Friday, June 15, 2012

Snapshot of the day: bee sting

UC Davis Communications Specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey in the Department of Entomology took this amazing on-in-a-million shot, capturing a honeybee stinging a man, with its abdominal tissue trailing behind. The photo won the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition.
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Monday, May 28, 2012

The Fire Rainbow

If you are very lucky you may see a fire rainbow once or twice in your life. It sounds like it could be one of a series of children's books - Harry Potter and the Fire Rainbow has a certain ring to it, but this phenomenon is not fiction. If you are in the right place and at the right time then a fire rainbow is something that you will remember witnessing forever.
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