Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

National Geographic best pictures of the year

Someone shared with me the National Geographic best pictures of the year. They are quite artistic & beautiful... some even very powerful (if you can use tht to describe a picture). These are my personal titles / comments for the pix... Enjoy...





















Nature's Art 1 : Geysers
Is this really scenes from Earth? Is it even real? Looks like from a painting / something












Nature's Art 2 : Rocky Coastline
Looks like a painting




















Nature's Art 3 : My caterpillar, My Leaf...
Wow! This caterpillar deserves an 'A' for the abstract artwork on the leaf!















Love Bites! Right.... Where Do I Start? ;-)




















Nature's Art 4 : Northern Lights
"Abstract painting" on the sky.....
errr.... & the copycat on land.... (lake actually)




















Nature's Art 5 : Trees, Trees, Everywhere Trees
The reflection on the water makes the picture of an otherwise normal wetland tree, look phenomenal!

















"Moo"sic To My Horns....
How sweet... Moose kiss! caught on camera




















Ah..... Beautiful confetti in the air!
must.... grab.... some....



























Huggy... huggy...
There's no place like the comfort of mama's bosom!




















Magnificent valcano spewing molten lava...
My forehead has some this morning.... ;-)




















Children... Be on your best behaviour!!
We're on camera! 1.. 2.. 3.. snarl.....




















Inspiration for Ice Age.....




















Mid Air Courtship

"Ark! I twisted my neck... Must have been that new goose-feather pillow! Should have known better than using our own kind..."





















I will follow her.... Follow her to where ever she may go....
"Talk to the flippers!"

(as in talk to the "hand")




















Survival of the fittest
Wilderbeast to crocodile "Show-off! I know you can do the backflip... Don't need to rub it in..."





















The Great Big Blue....

"Buuuuuurrrrrrrpppppp! Excuse me... Must be too much fizz in my plankton champagne"




















Survival of the fittest

"I hate it whenever sardines swim off like headless fishies whenever I'm around! What?! I have BO meh?"



























Pass the baton exercise...

Practicing for the Craneolympics




Meet you at sunset!!
"Let's duel buster!"


A parent's love...
"Brrr.... I'm having a pink nose thanks to the freezing cold! Come to think of it, we have pink faces!"

There's about 8 more, but can't upload all at once.... Will upload more later....

Thursday, 25 June 2009

The Wonder That is Mother Nature





Antarctica Frozen Wave pix's - Nature is amazing!
The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instantit comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!




Amazing Striped Icebergs
Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melted water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the
ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.