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East of the EU lies another Europe equal in size but far less well-known. Through stories by its best photographers we get an inside view. This is an ongoing project.

A portfolio by Peter Essick pays tribute to Ansel Adams and the craggy California wilderness named in his honor.

Sensational set of surf/ocean photos from Atlantic's In Focus. /cc @BrianNorgard

in the Leo constellation

"MLKSHK likes to tweet links to images that get 10 likes. This view is prettier."

"The Cassini spacecraft views Saturn with a selection of its moons in varying sizes.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the center of the image. Titan is 5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across. The smaller moon Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) is on the far right, appearing just below the rings. The tiny moon Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) is barely detectable as a speck on the far left, beyond the thin F ring. To enhance visibility, Pandora has been brightened by a factor of two relative to the rest of the image."

RT @ebertchicago Color photographs of Shackleton's 1915 Antartica expedition. (extraordinary didn't know these existed)

aurora borealis photos

As the last roll of Kodachrome is delivered today, @TheAtlantic commemorates with a spellbinding gallery (via @BBHLabs)

landscapes

Yikes--I meant 80-GIGAPIXEL photo!

playing with the moon

"WORLDS LONGEST EXPOSURE

Six months. That’s right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year.

The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.

Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008—the Winter and Summer solstices. (That’s a 15,552,000 second exposure.)"

"An amazing picture of thousands of rays swimming through the ocean in a colossal school has scooped top prize in the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 awards. The group of Munkiana Devil Rays were spotted in Baja California Sur, Mexico, by German conservation photographer Florian Schulz. He described how he was able to capture his jaw-dropping image named Flight of the Rays: "During an aerial expedition I came across something I had never seen before. Not even my pilot, who has surveyed this area for 20 years, had seen anything like it. As we got closer we started to discover its nature: an unprecedented congregation of rays. The group was as thick as it was wide, all heading towards the same direction. I have asked around why this took place but no one has been able to explain it to me. After such a unique sighting, I realise there are so many marvels in the oceans that we are yet to understand"

New aurora webcam captures spectacular displays from the Canadian tundra [video gallery]

Whoa. Weird. Spooky. Etc. via @schiaparelli RT @natmandu WW2 images shopped into modern photos: (via @mattleys)

yosemite

Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.

exhibited at the Ransom center

Chilling aerial view of sinkhole in Guatemala City after 1st tropical storm of season. #photography h/t @stevesilberman

Pseudocolored maximal projection overlay of several confocal images of cultured mouse hippocampal neurons fluorescently labeled with antibodies against microtubule-associated protein (MAP2) (green) and against synapsins (yellow).

Exposed
Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

A look at thousands of abandoned pools in foreclosed California houses.
Eerily beautiful.

RT @jasonmarshall Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens eruption. *Astonishing* "Big Picture" photos: