Category: Nature
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Incredible Photos Showing What Lies Beneath the Water’s Surface
In this amazing photo series, we take a closer look at what lies beneath the water’s surface. Whether it be a whale, a school of sharks, or an alligator, the results are visually stunning. So sit back, grab a cup of tea (or coffee, chai latte, skinny cap, etc, etc) and enjoy! Papua New…
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Amazing Aerial Tour of Tulip Fields in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is world-famous for their tulip fields. Every year from March to May the Dutch countryside transforms into a sea of colour. According to Nat Geo, the first tulip was planted in Dutch soil in 1593, and it has become a national symbol ever since. In the series below you will find incredible photographs taken…
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Stunning Before & After Photos of Butterfly & Moth Transformations
The animal kingdom is full of beautiful and mysterious processes, but there are few that are more captivating and wonderful than the metamorphoses that caterpillars undergo to become moths or butterflies. Perhaps even more amazing than the drastic transformation is how it happens. Inside their cocoons, the caterpillars are completely liquified, retaining only rudimentary “plates”…
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Artist Uses Magnifying Glass and the Sun to Create Stunning Artworks
Jordan Mang-osan, an award-winning Filipino artist, has harnessed the sun’s power to create beautiful artwork. By using a magnifying glass, he focuses the sun’s rays into a super-hot point that he uses to burn beautiful drawings onto wooden boards. Mang-osan draws upon the culture, history and environment of his native Cordilleras region and of the…
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Graphite and Oil Paintings Spectacularly Merge Nature and Anatomy
Italian artist Nunzio Paci works with pencil and oil paints to create strange amalgamations of plants and animals in what he describes as an intent to “explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.” Paci currently has a solo show including several of the pieces you see here at the Palazzo…
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Amazing Photographs of Fractals in Nature
Nature never ceases to amaze us… every day we come across something new that makes us appreciate the incredible design of this planet. Most of these 29 patterns are part of a group called “fractals.” You can find them across all sorts of natural phenomena, and you’ve probably held one in your hands before. They’re…
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Mystical Bridges That Will Take You To Another World
An ancient, mossy bridge is the perfect complement to any rural or river scene. These old and mysterious arched bridges are mankind’s way of traversing landscapes that are otherwise decidedly wild. Interestingly enough, an arch is only kept in position by its own weight – the stones supporting an arch couldn’t possibly stay in their…
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Hundreds Of Mountaineers Climb The Alps For an Epic Photoshoot
The sheer cliff wall or snowy, wind-blasted peak of an icy mountain is a rough place to create large-scale photographic works of art, but that’s exactly what Swiss photographer Robert Bösch does. His photos can involve hundreds of mountain climbers braving difficult conditions to get the perfect shot. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the…
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Magic Mushrooms From Around the World!
Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. When we posted some spectacular images of mushrooms last week HERE, the blog immediately went viral. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry…
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Majestic world of mushrooms captured by Vyacheslav Mishchenko
Just imagine a warm summer morning, around 5:30 am. You are in a beautiful forest. You are surrounded by peace and quiet. And then, the forest wakes up. First the trills of birds, the croaking of frogs, a woodpecker’s knock. Photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko gets to feel this joy and happiness, and is lucky enough to see…