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« Reply #220 on: February 08, 2008, 04:52 PM »
Quote from: hcchris1979 on February 08, 2008, 10:52 AM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesmokingsection/809586986/

This pic was literally luck...back then, pictures were taken minutes apart ( versus miliseconds today ).    This pic was timed perfectly when Ali swung his arm.  If you watch the video of it, his arm swings back and forth so quickly, it's hard to imagine the timing of the picture. 

In the '70s, I had a Nikon F-series camera that, with motor back, could shoot three frames a second, bracketed for f-stop or exposure.
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« Reply #221 on: February 19, 2008, 04:32 PM »
I always thought that birds of paradise were so beautiful
Enjoy! :)
http://pages.prodigy.net/profgary/_uimages/Blue-Bird-of-Paradise.jpg
http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=318&size=550x550_mb&ptp_photo_id=1349719
http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/81/22/0000038122_20070301141540.jpg
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/slovakia/fotografie-audio-video/photo/lesser-bird-of-paradise-on-bra
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« Reply #222 on: March 05, 2008, 04:09 PM »
Earth; city lights at night (551k)
I've had this as my desktop wallpaper for ages.
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« Reply #223 on: March 10, 2008, 02:06 AM »
I've always been quite amazed by this thread. For some odd reason, pictures of space invoke a feeling of awe in me, seeing how much is out there, how much is unexplored. The picture of cancer creeping into your cells, just before it starts it's life wrecking purpose.  I'll admit, some of these pictures have brought a tear to my eye. I'm weird, I know.

My poor contribution, of the Lagoon Nebula:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/astro/hst_lagoon_detail.jpg
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« Reply #224 on: March 19, 2008, 03:49 PM »
I really like pictures that reflect either history or the world around us. Here's one of my favorites, although a sad one:

Sudanese Child Being Stalked By Vulture

The photograph was taken by Kevin Carter. The fate of the girl is unknown.  Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the picture, but took his life only a few months later.
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« Reply #225 on: March 21, 2008, 09:09 PM »
Photos of "Benjamin", the last known living thylacine, or, tasmanian tiger/wolf:

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/threatened/graphics/tigerw.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/raincoaster/Animals/988d09de.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Tasmanian_tiger.gif

And a photo of "Martha", the last known living passenger pigeon:

http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/images/Passengerpigeon-MrHubbard-1898.jpg


I'm fascinated by extinct animals. I guess there's just a certain charm about animals we once had around, so recently, and are now gone forever. Its nice to hope sometimes that just maybe somewhere out there in the wild there are relict populations of animals like these (there are still regular reported sightings of thylacines in Tasmania), or others like the stellers sea cow (of which there are also sporadic, unconfirmed sightings). Alas.
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« Reply #226 on: March 23, 2008, 12:28 AM »
I know that there's bound to be several pictures of nebulas and other stellar objects here but this one is worth mentioning.
This, along with pictures of distant galaxies, dying and forming stars, and other things that occupy this universe, fill me with a sense of awe. I wonder how can such beautiful things can exist outside mans imagination, how the colors and shapes of these floating pieces of art can be so perfect. It is with these thoughts that another feeling comes into play: sadness. While these things are incredibly beautiful, I will never see them with my own eyes. Yet I still look up though, always admiring the beauty and mystery of the infinite heavens.
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« Reply #227 on: March 23, 2008, 01:50 AM »
Quote from: ThunderTrout on March 21, 2008, 09:09 PM
And a photo of "Martha", the last known living passenger pigeon:

http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/images/Passengerpigeon-MrHubbard-1898.jpg
Before their extinction due to over-hunting, these birds would fly in flocks that would be a mile wide, up to 300 miles long, contain almost a billion birds and take days to pass over a spot. Days. Just fucking imagine that. The estimate is that there were up to 5 billion of them in the continent before the Europeans arrived.


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« Reply #228 on: April 07, 2008, 10:44 AM »
Some great photos of a large bull elk swimming in Lake Coeur d' Alene, northern Idaho.  Taken by a friend of mine.  He was pretty excited about these. 

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm109/jasontmack/image5.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm109/jasontmack/image8.jpg

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« Reply #229 on: April 13, 2008, 07:39 AM »
The earth from 200 miles up.

For a couple reasons I wouldn't mind having a great big pile of money.  I would happily spend quite a lot of that pile if I could see this with my own eyes.
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« Reply #230 on: April 14, 2008, 02:09 PM »
How have these not been posted yet?

They're older than the internet.
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« Reply #231 on: April 14, 2008, 02:14 PM »
Sorry for the double post, and sorry about the lack of spacing.

These are chalk drawings done by a guy named Julian Beever. Viewed from the wrong angle, they're very distorted looking, as he has to seriously compensate for perspective.
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« Reply #232 on: May 08, 2008, 11:15 AM »
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ominous_oat/volcanoUPI_800x531.jpg

Stunning picture of a volcano erupting during a lightning storm.
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« Reply #233 on: May 08, 2008, 02:37 PM »
I've got a couple:

http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/colors/603px-Crab_Nebula.jpg
The Crab Nebula. The neutron star in the center of the nebula now spins at 30 times a second. When the star went supernova in 1054 it was bright enough to be seen in the daytime.

http://an-m.net/eagle_nebula.jpeg
The Eagle Nebula. Those finger-looking things are a couple of thousand light years long. It's essentially a star-making factory.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/images/070328-saturn-hexagon_big.jpg
An odd hexagonal formation at the northern pole of Saturn.
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« Reply #234 on: May 08, 2008, 07:51 PM »
Quote from: ominousoat on May 08, 2008, 11:15 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ominous_oat/volcanoUPI_800x531.jpg

Stunning picture of a volcano erupting during a lightning storm.

Here is a link to more pics in the series (it's in Spanish). The photos are stunning.
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« Reply #235 on: May 10, 2008, 05:31 PM »
I would also like to correct myself: The lightning is actually being cause by the volcano, which I think is much cooler than my previous statement.
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« Reply #236 on: May 11, 2008, 11:38 AM »
Hey, those are from a volcano erupting close to my city. We get those images all the time on the news and we're getting a lot of refugees in my city. The images are incredible, but the stories behind them are horrible.
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« Reply #237 on: May 16, 2008, 06:36 PM »
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/GGNRA-SF-panorama.jpg

This is a photo of the San Francisco bay, taken by the Golden Gate Bridge.  It's far too big to fit all on the monitor, but when viewed full size its beautiful.  I've always wished I had a greater knowledge of photography(besides how to use the camera on my phone).
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« Reply #238 on: May 18, 2008, 02:00 AM »
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080517.html

I love symmetry in nature.
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« Reply #239 on: May 18, 2008, 03:23 AM »
An amazing gallery of bizarro toxic seaslugs.



This one looks like bad cgi:
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