Everything Nature

archiemcphee:

These awesome photos, in which rolling waves appear to be both perfectly frozen in time and miraculously made solid, are the work of French photographer Pierre Carreau.

Carreau “shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses, capturing water shapes that appear more sculptural than liquid.”

Visit his Pierre Carreau’s website to view many more examples of his amazing work. He also offers prints of some of his images via Clic Gallery.

[via Colossal]

(via fuckyeahphotography)

staceythinx:

Approaching storms by Franz Schumacher

science-junkie:

seafarers:

Giant’s Causeway by Horia Bogdan

Name and legend fit because this expanse of stone columns, viewed from above, can easily be mistaken for a road paved by a giant. But geologists  know a thing or two about natural structure of volcanic origin and they tell us a different story. They let us know that, about 50 million years ago, a large part of Northern Ireland and the West of Scotland were subjected to prolonged volcanic activity of the crust.

Spilling from long cracks in the crust,  lava covered these areas with thicknesses of hundreds of meters. Cooling slowly and uniformly,  the lava generated regular polygons of basalt in the more superficial layers, through a process of contraction — like the mud when it dries in the sun.
The surface cracks gradually deepened, dividing the entire thickness of basaltic rock in the stone columns. Then, when the wall rock surrounding these basalt formations were eroded by the activity of the sea, the entire columns came to light.

Anyway, they take the breath away.

mymodernmet:

Blackwater by Joshua Lambus

Luminous bodies of aquatic species glowing brightly against a dark black background deep undersea.

mirroredphotography:

Stormy Sunrise - Bay of Fires (Round 1)