http://i.livescience.com/images/050928_giant_squid_02.jpg

This picture was taken in 2004, where a team of Japanese scientists hung a lure deep down, along with a camera taking pictures at random intervals, with the aim of photographing a Giant Squid, which had up until then never been seen alive. This one was only seven metres long, yet I still find it incredibly exciting to see this near-legendary creature reach out and seize the bait like that. At the same time, I find it kind of frightening to see this thing rushing out of the gloom. There's something scary and kind of ominous even initially looking at the image, and the graininess and obscurity of the picture makes it seem more real.

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/ee/images/uploads/giant-squid-3.jpg

There's another pic of the same animal as it struggles on the end of the wire. One thing the image revealed was the Giant Squid's hunting habits. A lot of the creatures in the ocean depths just hang around wasting no energy, waiting for food to drift by so they can snatch it and devour it. The Giant Squid that the scientists saw rushed at the bait and enveloped it in its tentacles, indicating that it is an aggressive hunter.

http://pharyngula.org/images/giant_squid_lg.jpg

Here's a small gallery of some of the things they saw. As well as the images of the squid itself, there's also pictures of the tentacle the animal left behind when it broke free of the wire.  Apparently, despite the fact that it had been severed, it still flailed around and grabbed hold of the scientists with its suckers for a while.

On a similar note:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/1024/great-white-breaching-lw.jpg

A Great White shark breaches the water after it attacked a decoy target off the coast of South Africa. The sheer power behind the animal is glorious and a little frightening.

Freezebubbles.
Frozen soap bubbles, beautifully captured on camera.

The first three pictures in this gallery are satellite photos of the inauguration. Fox News has a really really large version here.

Abandoned housing development in Rio Vista, CA.

Story.
The developer was planning to build 855 "upscale" homes here, but has abandoned the whole thing due to the economic downturn.  The buildings in the middle are the model homes.

Holy shit, a giant goddamn mechanical spider!

Boston's Big Picture features are always spectacular.

The worlds largest vacuum chamber currently being built to test the next generation of space craft.  Stepping out of the chamber can also be seen a member of the LFHCfS. 

holy balls this guy carves these things with his hands.

he doesn't use lazes or computers... no he uses a magnifying glass and what i assume i a really sharp knife.

Looks like the eye of a needle.

The first six pictures here show, frame-by-frame, a suicide bomb going off amidst a crowd in Sri Lanka.  It's happening so fast that the expressions on the people's faces don't change even as the fireball engulfs them.

Willard Wigan. The name was in the link.