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Spectacularly Beautiful Sun Plasma Photo

Spectacularly Beautiful Sun Plasma Photo

Featured Site: How about this for an out-of-this-world photography? Alan Friedman uses his Little Big Man 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope connected to a Mac to take some seriously spectacular pictures of the… Sun...

Sleeper Photography

Sleeper Photography

Featured Site: Naomi Leshem – Sleeper's Series In Street Photography we take pictures of people going about their daily business unaware that we are photographing them, capturing and preserving a slice of...

Your Tweets Geo-Located Make A Poignant Story

Your Tweets Geo-Located Make A Poignant Story

The first tweet says, “Well, I just got laid off.” Using geo-location, we can pin-point the exact location (more of less) where that was tweeted and, in this case, it turns out to be at the corner of W...

Detailed Moon Photos Show Astronauts’ Tracks

Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) special high resolution wide-angle camera and two narrow-angle cameras, we now have the most detailed moon shots ever taken. The narrow-angle cameras took photos...

CIA Spy Cameras in Flickr Photostream

Did anyone not tell the CIA that there’s no secret on the Internet? That posting photos on Flickr is a no, no? But if you want to see the cool gadgets the CIA used during WWII, check out their official Flickr site...

Nano World Photography

Nano World Photography

What you are looking at is a landscape from the nano world, i.e. at the atomic level. In this case, it is a photo of zinc oxide nanorods being produced in a furnace burning at 600°C (1,100°F). The rods are 50 to...

Judging the Wellcome Image Awards 2011

Judging the Wellcome Image Awards 2011

From WellcomeCollection The 11th Wellcome Image Awards were announced on 23 February 2011, recognising the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images among recent acquisitions to...