If we’ve clear skies this month, then the beauty of the created order awaits our gaze:
Nature
Nature, Photography
On Photographing the Milky Way
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Former SpaceX engineer Ian Norman runs Lonely Speck, a site that teaches aspiring astrophotographers how to take pictures of the night sky. This splendid vignette reveals the art and passion behind his work, with stunning wide-field landscape shots of the Milky Way set against the deserts of Reno, Nevada. “It puts into perspective just how…
Animals, Nature
Sounds: Inside a Bat Cave
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What would it sound like to be in a cave with bats, in a bat hibernaculum? With the recording below, designed for listening with headphones to simulate being surrounded by bats’ sounds, you’ll know. (Headphones make a discernible difference – it’s really quite something.) There are other tracks in the series, too: lemurs, humpback whales,…
Animals, Nature
Snapshots of Antarctica
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Animals, Nature
Hikers Stand Their Ground Against Bull Elephant
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Animals, Nature
Sleeping Whales
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Animals, Nature
35,000 Walruses
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Nature
Wasp Nest on a Window
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Animals, Art, Nature
An Animated Chart of 42 North American Butterflies
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From Eleanor Lutz @ Tabletop Whale, a beautiful, animated chart. Here’s how Ms. Lutz describes her creation: I checked out six butterfly field guides from the library and picked out some of the species I thought were the most unique and beautiful. It’s meant as a chart of decorative species illustrations rather than an educational…