Goodies // Random Awesomeness I Encounter

A 13-year-old golden eagle huntress in Mongolia

By Ben | amazing tales, animals, photography

Ashol-Pan may well be the only woman in the world hunting with a golden eagle. [&hellip

Literally Visualizing Sound

By Ben | photography, science

Using a tricksy method called Schlieren imaging, it is possible to record differences in air [&hellip

Islands of the Four Mountains

By Ben | nature, photography, science

I love volcanoes. And their (not entirely) subtle reminder to us all that this Earth [&hellip

A Stacked Photo Fantasy

By Ben | art, photography

Frequently, when astrophotographers are creating beautiful images of galaxies, nebulae, and the like, they'll take [&hellip

Saturn is Beautiful.

By Ben | photography, science, space

Holy Saturn, Batman! In perhaps one of the most beauteous pictures ever, this image was [&hellip

Timelapse from a Shanghai Apartment

By Ben | photography

Taken from the 23rd floor apartment in Shanghai taken over a two year period. by [&hellip

Monsters of New York

By Ben | art, clever, photography

I never New York had such a big monster population... (illustrations by Sadi Tekin, whose [&hellip

Close Ups of Animal Eyes

By Ben | animals, photography

Photographer Suren Manvelyan takes close-up pictures of animal eyes (including human animals): Llama: Husky Dog: [&hellip

The Pale Blue Dot: The 2013 Cassini Edition

By Ben | photography, space

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took images "using the red, green, and blue [&hellip

Classical sculptures dressed as hipsters

By Ben | art, clever, photography

As the article notes, having them dressed makes them look contemporary. I'm even pretty sure [&hellip

Earthquake Astrophotography Light Painting

By Ben | photography, science, space

What happens when you combine a long-exposure photograph of Jupiter and the Galilean moons with [&hellip

Families Photographed with their Weekly Shopping

By Ben | culture, photography

Every wonder what grocery shopping looks like around the world? A study was done surveying [&hellip

The NorthEastern United States at Night

By Ben | photography, space

  by ISS Expedition 30, NASA via 

Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year: 2012

By Ben | animals, art, nature, photography

Out of the 988 featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons in 2012, the five below were [&hellip

A Skull's Butterfly Eye

By Ben | art, photography

  by Marko Popadic, via Neatorama

Crater Lake Under the Stars

By Ben | nature, photography, space

via vimeo.com Beautiful time-lapse. Suddenly I have an urge to go West this winter

Photo Flash Bulb at 1052fps

By Ben | photography

I <3 slow motion