Photos of Interest
j7uy5 | February 1, 2007It's not
really funny, but...
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j7uy5 | January 11, 2007This was one of Reuters top photos for the day, yesterday. It shows a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070110/ids_photos_wl/r2471213610.jpg">baby
albino alligator. Not only is it an unusual
subject, but
it is a pretty good picture.
A baby albino alligator swims at Sao Paulo's Aquarium
January 10, 2007.
Sao Paulo's Aquarium, South America's biggest thematic aquarium, holds
two rare albino alligators, both measuring about 44-centimetres.
j7uy5 | January 6, 2007The Richat Structure is not a structure in the usual sense.
It is a natural feature located in the Sahara Desert of
Mauritania. It is unusual because it is nearly circular.
It was
href="http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/en/imgdata/topics/2003/tp031015.html">first
observed from space, in 1965, by the astronauts James A.
McDivitt and Edward H. White. (Irrelevant comment: both
McDivitt and White attended the University of Michigan, and there is a
href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mcdivitt&w=27345247%40N00">plaza,
near the diag, named for them.)
At first,
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j7uy5 | January 3, 2007From National Geographic "Top Ten Photos of 2006"
style="font-weight: bold;">Photo in the News: Cat Chases
Bear Up Tree
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alt="Cat chases bear up a tree (photo)">
I thought it was staged, but apparently not. Story
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html">here.
j7uy5 | December 29, 2006This is my sister's bulldog, doing what it loves the most.
You've got to be careful when doing this, though.
It took a while to get this shot, to get one that was not blurry.
The dog kept jerking his head back and forth.
j7uy5 | November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving!
About the image: it's big, I know, kind of slow for those with dial-up,
and it's going to mess up the formatting of the page for those with
lower-resolution monitors. I did shrink it some, but
shrinking degrades the quality quite a bit.
The above image is from the Wikipedia
article on pi (π). It was
made
by John Reid.
This image is from
href="http://www.tonidunlap.com/pumpkin_pie.htm">Toni's
kitchen; it depicts pumpkin pie with orange marmalade.
j7uy5 | November 7, 2006For some reason, I really like this picture. The version here
is reduced in size and quality. NASA Earth Observatory has an
explanation of the photo, along with a better version, and a link to
the original, which is a tad over 6 MB in size.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3">
Along with the subtle gradation of colors, the photo has nice
contrast and very fine detail.
j7uy5 | October 30, 2006
This is a mother Tapir and her offspring, as photographed in the
Hagenbeck Zoo, in Hamburg, Germany. Ailton was four weeks old
at the time. The photo is from
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/photogalleries/pow-week1/photo5.html">National
Geographic.
j7uy5 | October 11, 2006These are patterns seen in a salt desert in Iran. I shrank
the images. In order to get the full effect, you need to see
the full-size images. Note these are multi-megabyte files,
which is why I only show a little compressed snippet.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/dashelut_ast_2003198_lrg.jpg">Central
Dasht-e Lut. May 13, 2003 (4.0 MB)
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/dashelut_ast_2006133_lrg.jpg">Southeastern
Dasht-e Lut. July 17, 2006 (3.8 MB)
They are from the
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j7uy5 | October 11, 2006
Snow is in the forecast for this week. It probably won't be
this bad, but you never know.
Image courtesy of
rel="tag">NASA.
j7uy5 | October 7, 2006Charming...
Thai snake
charmer
Khum Chaibuddee bids to set a world record in king cobra-kissing in
Pattaya.
j7uy5 | October 4, 2006Caltech grad student Aron Meltzner used satellite imagery for his
research on the Aceh earthquake and resultant tsunami. Not
only did this result in a nice publication, he
got a nice write-up featured at NASA's Earth Observatory site.
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Aceh/">Rise and
Fall: Satellites Reveal Full Length of Tsunami-Generating Earthquake
On December 24, 2004, Caltech geology student Aron Meltzner was on
winter break in Australia. Yes, he was technically on
vacation—snorkeling, seeing a coral reef for the first
time—but he was also trying to make an…
j7uy5 | September 28, 2006
The food bank, that is. This is from a sculpture contest.
The rule: everything had to be made entirely from canned
foodstuffs. The canned food is to be donated to a food bank
in LA.
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href="http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-canned_j5ynw2nc,0,372926.photo?coll=la-home-headlines">TENTACLE
SPECTACLE: “A Call to Arms” used 4,100
cans in 2005. After L.A.’s upcoming competition, structures
will be disassembled and cans given to Los Angeles Regional…
j7uy5 | September 26, 2006
Who is this? The first in a series of not-very-challenging
science questions...
Notice the resemblance to one of our ScienceBloggers.
This bust is in an engineering building on the University of Michigan's
North Campus.
j7uy5 | September 26, 2006
These are red crossbills (
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxia_curvirostra">Loxia
curvirostra) photographed by Elaine R. Wilson.
She kindly uploaded the photo to Wikipedia, where it was
voted Feature Picture of the Day. Note: the image is
copyrighted, but the copyright holder permits the photo to be used for
any purpose. The full-sized photo, and accompanying
information, are
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Red_Crossbills_%28Male%29.jpg">here.
j7uy5 | September 19, 2006
This is from the Chicago
Tribune "Images in the News" feature.
Unfortunately, I saved it to my flash drive earlier in the
week. Now, it is no longer on their site, so I cannot provide
the caption or the photo credit. So do me a favor and go to
their site, and click on some of the ads. Just don't read
about the Lions and Bears game while you are there.
j7uy5 | September 12, 2006
This is from the
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17391">Nasa
Earth Observatory site. If you've ever been curious
about the dynamics of sand dunes, be sure to go to their site and read
the little essay on the subject.
j7uy5 | September 5, 2006
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-monkeys-photo.html">This is a pair of
twin albino pygmy monkeys, recently born at the Frösö
Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden.
They are featured in the National Geographic website's Photo in the
News section. Click on the photo to visit the site, and see
the full-size picture.
j7uy5 | August 28, 2006
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Originally uploaded by icki.
This is a photo from an Ann Arbor blogger, known to the world as Icki, who has been in New Orleans lately. This is from his Flickr collection; click on the photo to go to his Flickr page.
His blog is called Down on the Street. It is one of the better photoblogs I've seen.
For some reason, this photo got my attention. Icki's caption is: "Six months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Lower 9th Ward, one of the worst hit areas, remains largely untouched by clean-up efforts."
I posted that six months after Katrina. I'm not…