Photographer’s comments: “I was scrambling through bushes, wading up streams, and looking for anything scaly or slimy in one of the most bio-diverse forests in the world when we came across this vine snake. I was lying on my stomach to frame the shot when, as if on cue, a fly buzzed down and used the snake’s head as a landing pad. As soon as I clicked the shutter, the fly departed. Some photographs come about through careful and diligent planning, but this one was about being in the right place at the right time.”
(photo by Robin Moore / Nature’s Best Photography via PhotoBlog)
A picture from the International Space Station, provided Saturday by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, shows southern lights between Antarctica and Australia.
This is a timelapse taken on Friday, 02 September, 2011, from the Ingraham Flats on Mt. Rainier in Washington. Some friends and I attempted a summit of the mountain with International Mountain Guides, but we were unable to reach the top due to high winds.
When we returned to camp after our summit attempt, I set up my GoPro Hero camera to take pictures at five-second intervals. This video represents about two hours of footage of the sunrise over Little Tahoma taken while we rested and prepared for our descent back to Paradise. Toward the end of the video, you might be able to see that the composition of the shot changes. This is due to the sun melting the snow on which the camera was resting.
The people who appear in the video facing away from the camera while standing just to the left of Little Tahoma are peeing.
These ants can’t ever be self-conscious about what they eat! Their transparent abdomens reflect what they’ve ingested.
Realizing this, photographer and scientist Mohamed Babu captured these amazing images after putting colorful sugar drops in his garden and letting the ants go to town, according to The Daily Mail.
(photo by Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency via Animal Tracks)
Armed with bolt-action 20-gauge shotguns mounted with digital scopes developed for military training, each hunter was given five blank shells a day. Each night, he returned the empty shells and firearm to tournament officials, who removed a memory card from the $1,200 scope. The 10-second video clips on the card were used to determine the most skillful hunter…
…The series is the latest example of technology transforming a traditional sport. Just as some baseball and football players are turning to advanced imaging technology to improve efficiency and performance, deer hunters can now in theory practice in the field without risk of maiming an animal or running afoul of game laws…
…Digital rifle scopes, Koch said, can enable hunters to track their prey out of season and help children build a solid foundation in ethical hunting, a component of which is to kill an animal as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Alan Boyle writes: Can you imagine anything trickier than cutting the heart out of a mosquito? How about making an award-winning picture of that heart? Jonas King, a graduate student in biology at Vanderbilt University, has managed to pull off both those tricks (Jonas King / Vanderbilt University).
Engineered for survival, insect eggs hang on and hatch wherever their parents deposit them.
Photos by Martin Oeggerli
Julia heliconian butterfly egg - Dryas iulia
Perched on the tendril of a Passiflora plant, the egg of the Julia heliconian butterfly may be safe from hungry ants. This species lays its eggs almost exclusively on this plant’s twisted vines.
