[Little Planets] by Dan Arkle
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These are the amazing panoramic photographs that look like little planets. They were taken by photographer Dan Arkle, 34, from Sheffield, UK. He said: [On a sharp summit, you feel literally on top of the world, with dramatic views in all directions, including straight down. I tried using conventional photography to capture this feeling, but even with a wide angle lens I couldnt get all the view in the image].
Photo: [Taken at the tiny summit of Cima Piccola in the the Tre Cima group in the Dolomites, Italy. The large peak is Cima Grande Some remote peaks have a summit...
Panjin Red Beach
[The Red Beach is located in the Liaohe River Delta, about 30 kilometer southwest of Panjin City in China. The beach gets its name from its appearance, which is caused by a type of sea weed that flourishes in the saline-alkali soil...]. – Amusing Planet. Photo: Panjin Red Beach (盘锦红海滩). (Photo by 猪倌)
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[Earth as Art] (in Hi-Res)
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Alluvial Fan, China. A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklimakan Desert in China’s XinJiang Province. Image taken by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on May 2nd, 2002. (Photo by NASA/GSFC/USGS EROS Data Center)...
Photographers: Andrea Hallgass. Insects Close-Up in High Resolution
Emus hirtus (Linnaeus, 1758). (Photo by Andrea Hallgass)...
Some More Kamchatka Photos – by Sergey Ivanov
Scene of action: Kuril lake, Kamchatka, Russia. (Photo by Sergey Ivanov)...
The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
Winner. Photographer Anna Henly was on a boat in Svalbard – an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole – when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. (Photo by Anna Henly/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012)...
Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2012
Most people know Nikon as a purveyor of pro and consumer-grade digital cameras. But the company's expertise with optics bleeds over into related markets – it's one of the science community's major suppliers of microscopes. And each year the company asks the community to send it some of their favorite images of tiny objects. A panel of scientists and journalists have chosen the best of this past year's submissions, which Nikon has placed on its Small World site.
Photo: Honorable Mention. [Snow crystal, illuminated with colored lights (5x)]. (Photo by Dr....
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