Wolfspark Werner Freund is a wolf sanctuary spread over 25 acres in western Germany. It is home to 29 wolves -- six distinct packs hailing from Europe, Siberia, Canada, the Arctic, and Mongolia. Researcher Werner Freund, 79, a former German paratrooper, established the sanctuary in 1972 and has raised more than 70 animals there over the last 40 years. He acquired the wolves as cubs from zoos or animal parks and has reared them mostly by hand. Werner has also taken to living closely with his wolves, behaving as an alpha male to earn their acceptance and respect. Reuters photographer...
Thomas Barbèy grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, across the street from the [Caran D’ache] factory, the largest manufacturer of art supplies. He started drawing seriously at the age of 13, using black [encre de Chine] and gouaches for color....
In 2007, I graduated from Lomonosov’s Moscow State University in the department of Zoology. I specialized in the study of invertebrate animals, with an emphasis on squid brains. Soon after, I began working at the White Sea Biological Station (WSBS) as a senior laborer. WSBS has a dive station, which is great for all sorts of underwater scientific needs, and after 4 years working there, I became chief of our diving team. I now organize all WSBS underwater projects and dive by myself with a great pleasure and always with a camera....
IT'S a relatively simple idea - set up a mirror so you can capture the reflection of a dramatic landscape in a single photograph.
Photographer Daniel Kukla, from New York, created a spectacular series of artworks called The Edge Effect using the technique.
He clamped the mirror onto an easel and placed it in various settings in the Joshua Tree National Park, California....
Wisteria Tunnel is located at the Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan. Flowering wisteria blooms hang to create rows bursting with color overhead and dappled shadows below....
Ed Hetherington was on safari in Zimbabwe with his wife when he decided to set up his camera to get an action shot of a lioness devouring her prey. Instead of chowing down, she took his camera!...
Wang Xianxiang carries two buckets of water with his eyelids during a provincial festival for migrant workers in Shaodong County, Hunan province, Saturday....
Photographer Adrian Limani sets his surrealist art apart from the others by taking pictures from the world and boxing them into lightbulbs....
[GoPro is a brand of the privately owned San Mateo, California company Woodman Labs that features [wearable] camera/camcorders such as helmet cameras that are targeted at adventure video/photography. Widely used by professionals and hobbyists]. – Wikipedia. Photo: [Skydiving fun in Miami by Ralph Turner. This is a shot I took yesterday at Skydive Miami during a fun jump with friend Dexter Marcelino]. (Photo by Ralph Turner)...
Check out these behind-the-scenes images and concept art from upcoming animated film Mars Needs Moms.
Based on the 2007 children’s book by Berkeley Breathed (best known for his long-running comic strip [Bloom County]), the story features a young boy who must come to his mother’s rescue when she’s kidnapped by martians....