eye spy

Nov 09

Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winner. Photographer Anna Henly was on a boat in Svalbard — an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole — when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. It was October, and the bear was walking on broken-up ice floes, seemingly tentatively, not quite sure where to trust its weight. She used her fisheye lens to make the enormous animal appear diminutive and create an impression of “the top predator on top of the planet, with its ice world breaking up”. The symbolism, of course, is that polar bears rely almost entirely on the marine sea ice environment for their survival, and year by year, increasing temperatures are reducing the amount of ice cover and the amount of time available for the bears to hunt marine mammals. Scientists maintain that the melting of the ice will soon become a major problem for humans as well as polar bears, not just because of rising sea levels but also because increasing sea temperatures are affecting the weather, sea currents and fish stocks.

Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Winner. Photographer Anna Henly was on a boat in Svalbard — an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole — when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. It was October, and the bear was walking on broken-up ice floes, seemingly tentatively, not quite sure where to trust its weight. She used her fisheye lens to make the enormous animal appear diminutive and create an impression of “the top predator on top of the planet, with its ice world breaking up”. The symbolism, of course, is that polar bears rely almost entirely on the marine sea ice environment for their survival, and year by year, increasing temperatures are reducing the amount of ice cover and the amount of time available for the bears to hunt marine mammals. Scientists maintain that the melting of the ice will soon become a major problem for humans as well as polar bears, not just because of rising sea levels but also because increasing sea temperatures are affecting the weather, sea currents and fish stocks.

Nov 04

Emmanuel Rosario

Emmanuel Rosario

Nov 03

Brian Schutmaat

Brian Schutmaat

Nov 02

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Nov 01

Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin Thomas

Oct 31

Swans leaving Brooklyn

Swans leaving Brooklyn

Oct 30

Sandy

Sandy

Sep 22

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Sep 21

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Jul 13

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Happy birthday, Henry David Thoreau (via explore-blog)

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Jul 12

Submerged tree in Jiuzhaigou Valley in China.

Submerged tree in Jiuzhaigou Valley in China.

Jul 10

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Jul 09

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Jul 08

“Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.” — Ralph Ellison on race, identity, and the civic responsibility of the writer – a rare 1966 interview. (via explore-blog)

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Jul 07

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