The Real Objects Of Nature Preserved In Acrylic Cubes
3.8 billion years ago life began on earth. And over millions of years multicellular life evolved into land plants and forests. The colors and shapes of flowers, fruits and seeds all have unique purposes and are as beautiful as they are functional. Intent on showcasing the wonder and beauty of mother nature, Koichi Yoshimura developed a way to exquisitely preserve plants in acrylic cubes. He called them “Sola Cubes.”
Each Sola Cube is handmade by Japanese craftsmen and contain a real plant. Continue reading »
2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer Of The Year – Nature
Enter today for a chance to be named the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year. Each year, photographers around the world send National Geographic Travel gorgeous images that captivate and astonish. The judges are looking for photos that tell the story of a place and travel moments that inspire.
Lost in white
This photo captures the moment that I, along with 3 other Sami reindeer herders become a little lost while migrating with 350 reindeer. They were rounded up from a section of forest around 30kms south of this point. Our goal was to take them, via rivers, northwards to pastures new using the network of rivers and lakes that flow through Sweden. This was taken on Randijaur lake, Jokkmokk, Sweden. (Adam Cunningham-White/ National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest) Continue reading »
Amazing Street Art Installations That Cleverly Interact With Nature
StepArt
Street art is there to surprise and inspire us, to shake up the often dull urban environments in which it can usually be found in order to give us a fresh perspective on our otherwise familiar neighborhoods and streets. But sometimes street art goes one step further than that by not only altering the world around it, but actually interacting with it. Continue reading »
Glass Beach: Where Nature Has Turned Pollution Into Beauty
Anna Pozharskaya
Waves on Russia’s Pacific shoreline crafted old bottles, porcelain and tiles into a sparkling tourist attraction. On a sunny day, the beach on Ussuri Bay – in Primorsky region – seems to be covered with lighted candles. In the past, it was used as a dump for truckloads of unwanted glass bottles and waste from a local porcelain factory, or so the story goes. But nature has correct man’s mistake, and stamped its own imprint. Continue reading »
Nature Interiors: When Nature Invades Abandoned Places
The British artist Suzanne Moxhay, based in London, imagines some amazing surreal creations, using collages, matte painting and digital retouching. A clever mix of analog and digital techniques that allows her to stage pieces of nature in abandoned places, creating captivating and poetic compositions. Continue reading »
Vegetal By Nature: When An Artist Is Styling Statues With Flowers
Between floral art and street art, the French artist Geoffroy Mottart enjoys styling statues with flowers, creating beautiful hair, beards and mustaches. An awesome project of urban interventions entitled Fleurissements, which seeks to revive the often forgotten statues that populate our parks. Continue reading »
National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year 2016 Winners
The annual National Geographic travel photographer of the year contest attracted 10,000 entries worldwide this year. Selected from thousands of entries, an underwater photo of sardine predation off the Wild Coast of South Africa was selected as the winning image for the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest. Here’s a selection of the winning entries.
1st Place-Action + Grand Prize: Sardine Run
During the sardine migration along the Wild Coast of South Africa, millions of sardines are preyed upon by marine predators such as dolphins, marine birds, sharks, whales, penguins, sailfishes, and sea lions. The hunt begins with common dolphins that have developed special hunting techniques to create and drive bait balls to the surface. In recent years, probably due to overfishing and climate change, the annual sardine run has become more and more unpredictable. It took me two weeks to have the opportunity to witness and capture this marine predation. (Greg Lecoeur/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year) Continue reading »
Asymmetric Nature Houses Along The Danish Archipelago By LUMO Architects
Along the coast of Denmark in the South Fyn archipelago, there are islands known for their natural and nature-abundant landscape. Giving visitors an opportunity to be involved in the rural outdoors, Aarhus-based firm LUMO Architects have designed a series of shelter constructions and campsites along the islands of Skarø, Drejø, Birkholm and Ærø. Continue reading »
Artist Shows Off The Fleeting Nature Of Beauty With Crumbling Portraits
Nobody stays young and beautiful forever, that’s just a fact of life. Melbourne street artist Rone, whose full name is Tyrone Wright recently took on a new project which he calls “Empty.” He’s been painting portraits of beautiful women in an old building that’s falling apart, and he’s trying to remind people that beauty is fleeting. Continue reading »
New Stunning Entries Of The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest
The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest is accepting entries in one or all of four categories: Landscape, Environmental Issues, Action and Animal Portraits. The grand-prize winner will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos with National Geographic Expeditions and two 15-minute image portfolio reviews with National Geographic photo editors.
Empire Rising
Built in complete darkness, a complex city is being constructed. A wild swarm of Honeybees (Apis mellifera) arriving in the spring, is developing natural wax comb formations to support the colony’s future larvae, and food storage. When this colony is at it’s strongest, it will eventually divide. The majority of the bees swarming to a new location with the queen and begin the process of reproducing all over again, thus spreading their genes farther. (Photo and Caption by Sam Morris/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year) Continue reading »
Wearable Wooden Bags That Blends With Nature Patterns
Things we love from Istanbul: pistachio-flavored Turkish delights, handwoven wool kilims, and embroidered wooden clutches. Grav Grav, short for the phrase “gravity is gravity,” is a label started by Merve Burma, a young designer born and raised in Istanbul. Working out of a studio in her hometown, Burma creates unique wooden satchels, backpacks, clutches, and purses—but it was the wooden bags with intricate embroidered detailing that first caught our eye. Continue reading »
Beautiful Early Entries Of The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest
Hunting For Fish
The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest is accepting entries in one or all of four categories: Landscape, Environmental Issues, Action and Animal Portraits. The grand-prize winner will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos with National Geographic Expeditions and two 15-minute image portfolio reviews with National Geographic photo editors.
Here: A mature bald eagle drags the tail of a fish across the surface of the water after picking it up out of the Susquehanna river. It was late in the day when the sun was setting casting an orange hue over the water. (Photo and Caption by Eric Esterle/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year) Continue reading »
Ethereal Nature Tattoos Inspired By Changing Seasons
Crimean tattoo artist Pis Saro creates beautiful tattoos inspired by nature. Her style is somewhat peaceful and edgy at the same time, while the tattoos, which are created for both men and women, have so much detail and color that they could even be mistaken for real plants! Continue reading »
‘3D Printed’ Animals Illustrate The Irreplaceable Nature Of Endangered Species
As part of a campaign for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Young & Rubicam Paris has realized a series of images that depicts the irreplaceable and irreversible aspects of killing wildlife. Continue reading »
“Destroying Nature Is Destroying Life” – Brilliant Ad Posters For The Campaign To Call Attention To The Environmental Catastrophes
These stunning images by Robin Wood, a German environmental activist NGO, call attention to the environmental catastrophes caused by you humans, like the melting Arctic, the jungles set on fire, or the continents of forests wiped out. Continue reading »
Unexpected Land Art Beautifully Formed In Nature
It’s fairly impossible to predict what British artist Andy Goldsworthy might come up with next! The Scotland-based artist creates intriguing, site-specific land art that utilizes natural resources in completely unexpected ways. The final results are organized, colorfully radiating leaves, spiraling sticks, and mounds of thin rocks that convey the beauty of the natural environment in creative works of art. Continue reading »
Playful Seniors Wear Organic Materials To Personify Nature
Eyes as Big as Plates is a whimsical series by Finnish photographer Riitta Ikonen and Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth that features senior citizens donning organic materials like twigs and grass. Ikonen says that the collaborative project originally began as “a play on characters and protagonists from Norwegian folklore” but has since evolved into a collection of images exploring “mental landscapes” that reflect a return of body to nature with the use of scavenged materials. Continue reading »
The Happiest Tail-Waggers: Adorable Dogs And Puppies Enjoying Nature
If you are a dog-person, these incredible photographs, made by photographer Alicja Zmyslowska, are a must-see for you. Alicja’s doggie models are very diverse and all equally cute. There are big ones and small ones, older ones and puppies, labradors, pitbulls, Australian shepherds, Border Collies and many others. Continue reading »
Nature Framed By Myoung Ho Lee
South Korean artist Myoung Ho Lee captured single trees against rectangular white backdrops, resulting in a series of graphic still life landscapes. By creating a partial, temporary outdoor studio for each tree, Lee’s ‘portraits’ of trees play with ideas of scale and perception. Continue reading »
Child Prodigy Aged 13 Creates The Most Amazing Nature-Inspired Drawings You’ve Ever Seen
While most kids at the age of 13 can hardly draw anything, this Kid’s drawings will astound you. Dušan Krtolica, a 13-year-old child prodigy from Belgrade, Serbia has been making art since he was 2 years old. By the time he was 8 he had already had two national solo exhibitions, and he has since had two more to display his amazing drawings.
He’s work is slowly gaining popularity all over the world. So you better remember this little chubby and charming young boy’s name. Continue reading »
Ten Cats Who Were Painted By Nature Itself
Half the internet is made up of pictures of cats wearing stupid clothing or painted all the colours of the rainbow. But all these attempts by their owners to make their cats stand out from the crowd are nothing compared to what nature itself can do with these beautiful animals.
It’s hard to believe, but the following selection of cats were actually born looking the way they do. Truly charming! Continue reading »
20 Places Where Nature Went Crazy With Colour
Among the huge variety of different landscapes you can find out there in the world, there are some which are so striking it’s as if you’ve woken up in a fairy tale. Incredible, riotous combinations of colours give the impression that nature is deliberately trying to parade the full scope of its beauty for us to admire, all in one place.
We’ve put together a virtual tour of some of the brightest, most vivid places on the planet. Continue reading »
Look At This Tiny Frisky Sand Bubbler Crab – The Real Nature’s Sand Artist
In sandy beaches of certain tropical regions in the Indo-Pacific live a tiny crab, about a centimeter across, called the “sand bubbler crab” of the genera Scopimera and Dotilla in the family Dotillidae. Continue reading »
2015 Fritz Pölking Nature Photography Prize
Italian photographer Bruno D’Amicis has won the 2015 Fritz Pölking prize with his photography story ‘Fennec, little ghost of the dunes’. The award, named in honour of wildlife photographer Fritz Pölking, who died in 2007, is run by the Society of German Nature Photographers. It is one of the categories in the GDT’s European wildlife photographer of the year awards. Here: An adult fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) stands on top of a sand dune in the Tunisian desert. It is the quintessential desert animal that covers almost all of northern Africa and the entire Sahara. Small dunes with sparse vegetation, which make the sand firmer enabling the fennec to dig burrows, are its typical habitat. (Photo by Bruno D’Amicis/Fritz Pölking Prize/GDT EWPY 2015)
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15 Pictures of Nature That Are One Big NOPE
Nature is so scary you’ll want to stay indoors for good. Continue reading »
