Image of the day: ‘Borderlands’
Chris Linder’s photograph of a sagauro cactus, icon of the Sonoran desert, is part of the 13-person show “Borderlands,” which opens tomorrow at the G2 Gallery in Venice, California.
Sponsored by the International League of Conservation Photographers, the exhibit documents life along the fence dividing Mexico and the United States.
“Borderlands” runs until February 7, 2010. Click on the image to be taken to the gallery.…
Image of the (shortest) day
With winter solstice today, Southern California’s growing season begins. Following this the shortest day of the year, every additional minute of light and therefore warmth will begin stimulating plants. Watch for dandelions as first responders. For background on this 2007 image, which in a series of time-lapse photographs traced the mid-winter arc of the sun over the temple of Apollo, click here.
Or click here for the Earth Observatory’s image of the day for the 2009 winter solstice: the Eastern US seaboard blanketed by snow.…
Image of the Day: ‘Southwest’
“Southwest,” a show with photographs by Kate Dennis, Sandra Lee, David Pettit and Lynne Pomeranz, opens tomorrow at the G2 Gallery in Venice and runs through January 3rd.…
Image of the day: Sea monster imagined
An artist's impression of a 45-ton pliosaur attacking a somethingelse-osaur. Picture: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. For the history of the first discovery of a skull of the 'T-Rex of the ocean' in the Arctic permafrost in 2008, more scary artist's impressions of underwater attacks and first class paleontological fun, click on the pliosaur to be taken to the Oslo Natural History Museum. Fear not, the text is in English.
The fossilized skull of a “sea monster,” which may be the largest of its type ever found, has been unearthed on the Dorset coast, reports the London Guardian today. From the report:
“These creatures were monsters,” said David Martill, a paleontologist from the University of Portsmouth.
“They had massive muscles on their necks, and you would have imagined that they would bite into the animal and get a good grip, and then with these massive neck muscles …
Image of the day: Beautiful Blighty
IT’S not surprising that more than half of the winning images in the Guardian newspaper’s UK-wide landscape photography competition involved water. Another name for the place is the British Isles. What is striking is a creeping urban edge in a normally pastoral style of photography. While the winner featuring sunrise over the Isle of Skye was a lyrical ideal, this image by John Parminter, “Food for thought,” finds beauty and horror in its image of an abandoned shopping cart in the harbor of Aberdeen in northeastern Scotland.
For the full series, click here. The images will be on exhibit at London’s National Theatre after December 5th.…
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