Tag Archives: photography

From The International Space Station

Gorgeous.

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HomoQuotable – Tom Bianchi

“You can’t write a book about the maiden voyage of the Titanic without mentioning that there’s an iceberg lurking ahead. The book is a nostalgic remembrance of what was lost. When AIDS hit, the Pines was dead center, ground zero. It would happen within the space of a summer. If there was a house that had six friends, come spring …

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Venus In Flight

Yesterday the Boston Globe’s long-running Big Picture photo essay featured numerous shots of Venus crossing between the sun and the Earth. That won’t happen again until 2117.

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There’s A Moon In The Sky

And it’s called the super-moon. Source.

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The New Look Of Lower Manhattan

More shots of the new WTC.

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NYC Releases Massive Digital Archive

The New York City Department of Records has spent the last four years digitizing hundreds of thousands of images in its photo archive, which stretches back to the 1880s. That project is still underway, but beginning today the archive is open to the public for (mostly) free use. Amazing. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over …

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NASA Films Massive Solar Flare

There’s been a lot of solar photography lately.

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Sunny To Partly Cloudy

Buzzfeed points out lots of cool photos of the sun by “astrophotographer” Alan Friedman.

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Photo Of The Day – Bay Bridge Octo-Strike

JMG reader Craig points us to this amazing amateur shot of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge getting hammered by eight lightning bolts. I can only recall hearing thunder one time during my six cold foggy years in San Francisco. It was so unusual, the papers mentioned it the next day.

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One Billion Dollars For Instagram

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Photo Of The Day

Here’s another shot that Dr. Jeff took as he landed at LGA. Amazing and embiggens wonderfully. Previously.

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Photo Of The Day

Dr. Jeff snapped this as he landed at LGA yesterday. Embiggen and dig how huge the new WTC tower is getting.

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Photo Of The Day – Chernobyl Control

Photojournalist Gerd Ludwig has documented the present state of the world’s most infamous nuclear power plant and the town that once surrounded it. Lots more fascinating (and grim) photos at the link, courtesy of the Boston Globe’s always compelling Big Picture feature.

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You Are Here

NASA has released a super-high resolution image of the Earth.

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National Geographic Photo Winner

Hit this link for the runners-up. Cool stuff.

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Fireworks Around The World

Hit this link for some great shots from around the world.

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Photo Of The Day – Chilean Volcano

The Boston Globe has posted a Part 2 in its Big Pictures Of 2011 series. Lots more at the link.

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The Year In Pictures

Above is the first image in the Boston Globe’s annual Year In Pictures feature. Hit the link for some amazing shots.

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NASA’s Photo Of The Day

Description: The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the southern half of Earth’s umbral shadow, entertaining moonwatchers around much of the planet. In the total phase of …

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Hang Gliding A Sky Tsunami

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