Category: Nature
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Glass Vases and Sculptures That Capture the Beauty of Cascading Waves
If you are a fan of everything water, you will be mesmerised by the spectacular glass art of Californian husband and wife team Paul DeSomma and Marsha Blaker. Their latest works, based on cascading waves, display incredible detail, including gradient shades of cerulean and glistening surfaces that catch the light, to incredibly realistic bubbles and white crystallizations of…
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Floating Garden in Japan Where Flowers Move Skyward as you Approach
Japanese art collective teamLab have created an incredible floating flower garden installation featuring over 2,300 living flowers in bloom. TeamLab adds: When a viewer gets close to this flower-filled space, the flowers close to the viewer rise upwards all at once, creating a hemispherical space with the viewer at its center. In other words, although the whole…
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Street Art That Masterfully Interacts With Nature!
Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique. Here are some great examples of this combination. What is your favorite? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check out artFido HERE!
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The Wind Carves Amazing Towers from Frozen Sand on the Shore of Lake Michigan
While exploring the shores around St. Joseph, Michigan last week, photographer Joshua Nowicki stumbled onto a bizarre phenomenon: dozens of small sand towers rising out of the beach, some over a foot tall. The strange layered sand castles are formed when blasts of wind slowly erode layers of frozen sand, much like how a river might slowly…
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The Nearly Frozen Slurpee Waves of Nantucket
The record-setting winter of 2015 has left a lot of America with all kinds of remarkable images, most of them of snow and ice. But a photographer in Nantucket, Massachusetts, found something most of us have never seen – nearly frozen waves. Jonathan Nimerfroh was walking along a beach on the island recently when he saw…
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Artist Joel Rea Creates the Most Beautifully Surreal Storm Paintings
Is man battling nature or himself? In these fascinating new paintings by artist Joel Rea, we see man and a tiger going one-on-one with the fury of nature. Using oil on canvas, Rea makes his paintings come alive by showing waves furiously crashing and rocks shockingly crumbling. One has to wonder who has ultimate control in…
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Spectacularly Artistic Ice And Snow Formations
Ice can be damaging or deadly, but it can also inadvertently create some of the most beautiful and fascinating winter sights. The formation of ice is subject to a million different variables, and the tiniest change in humidity, temperature or wind speed can create wildly different results. Ice is beautiful, but it can also be…
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Putting Our Amazing Planet and the Solar System Into Perspective
This amazing graphic was created by Roberto Ziche and shows our earth and solar system to scale. Roberto explains: “At the Chabot Space and Science Center there were some old, poor quality images, probably downloaded from internet and printed on office paper, showing the Sun and the planets to scale. I found the images content to be extremely…
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Photos of People Awestruck by the Beauty of Nature
Nature has a way of making our problems feel small and insignificant, an incredible view can change our whole perspective on life. While in Moab, Utah for a March photo shoot adventure, photographer Jerry Patterson captured a shot of the Milky Way through the arches of beautiful sandstone monuments (above). He calls the photo Stargazing Through…
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The Magical Rainbow Mountains of China
There is a reason why someone, somewhere, originally coined the phrase where “life imitates art“. We could not find a better example than these layer cakes of amazing colors is a real landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China. Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t…