"Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more."

"Taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP, this composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012." Original size: 8000 x 8000.

"The Project Gemini Online Digital Archive, released this weekend by NASA and Arizona State University, features high-resolution digital scans from the original Gemini flight films."

"In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn."

"In the last decade, the multimedia artist Michael Benson has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography. He takes raw image data from deep-space missions run by NASA and the European Space Agency and digitally processes it to create large-format landscapes." from NYT.

"The first camera phone photo was taken on June 11th, 1997. In honor of that date, 1197 is a one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography."

take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.

Simply because the sun is always setting

How to create 6 month exposures.

The Earth Observatory’s mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models.

over 30 different organisms ranging from trees to predatory fungus to ancient bacteria.

"My work is landscape-based, rooted in a subtle exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with nature and, by extension, with itself."

Alyson Denny makes abstract photographic images, both still and moving.

Level & Tap is a site dedicated to selling curated photography prints.

Our relationship with trees goes back to our evolutionary roots—way back to when our ancestors thrived in the green canopy above. Perhaps that is why long after we have climbed down their trunks we still gaze at trees in awe. Lewis Blackwell—writer, artist, environmentalist, and former creative director of Getty Images—celebrates this relationship in The Life & Love of Trees. With a collection of stunning photography from around the world—from cypress enclaves in Tuscany’s wheat fields, to the coast-dwelling mangroves of Indonesia and frozen skeletal structures in the Japanese tundra— Blackwell blends visual poetry with thought-provoking reflections on one of the most successful kinds of organisms and the ties that bind us to them. from seed.

A pictory = a picture + story = a captioned image = a photo story.

When Carsten Kamenz of Berlin's Humboldt-University turned his electron microscope on arachnid "book lungs," he found a landscape of sere, alien beauty—canyons and beaches of chitin that, at higher magnifications, split into thin pages fringed with lacy arches and carpeted with mushroom-like structures.

Flickriver is a web-based image viewer that provides a new way to explore and view Flickr photos.

Flogr shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface

Photomicrography Competition. Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope.

Biscuit Tin magically fills with a random selection of your lovely photos on flickr.

the value of visual imagery in a liberal-democratic society. from google books.

Matt Riggott. Photographer, programmer, and political animal.

aerial photography, commissions & stock imagery.

international year of astronomy 2009, a slideshow. from seed magazine.

exhibits throughout the world in 2009.

the beauty of aerial photography. from smashing magazine.

11 stunning photographic portfolios, from the pages of seed magazine.

a decontextualized and isolated variant from the subject. from lens culture.

galaxies, nebulae, and stars from the national optical astronomy observatory.

visual elements for use in professional creative work.

beyond flickr.

your world in pictures.