Photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame.

9 Eyes - Life on Earth through Google Streetview

Incredible visual snippets of life on earth, courtesy of Google Streetview

smeared sky created from hundreds of stacked photos

Laborers collect salt from pools of evaporating saltwater in Niger.

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Snowflake under a microscope. More.

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2012 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION

Dr. David Linstead

Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom

Subject Matter:

Spiral vessels from Saccalabium (an orchid)

Technique:

Differential Interference Contrast with full wave plate in light path

Sand Magnified 100X

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2012 PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION

Haris Antonopoulos

Athens, Greece

Subject Matter:

Soap bubbles

 (10x)Technique:

Brightfield and Polarized Light

The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo

 (20x) - winner of the 2012 Photomicrography Competition

Geometric Fruit Photogrpahy by Sakir Gokcebag

Aerial Nudes by John Crawford

Aerial Photographs of Volcanic Iceland by Andre Ermolaev

Source: The Atlantic

Symmetrical Portraits: Strange Twins Found in Single Faces

Google Earth Fractals