Beautiful gallery of aerial photographs by Bernhard Lang. One series over liquid water, one series over frozen water.

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An unreal amount of destruction through the Central US shown at The Big Picture.

An amazing series of photos on Timothy Allen’s travel/photo blog. He must get to see some of the most amazing things as part of the Human Planet Series. This series of images is from his trip to the Living Root Bridges in Meghalaya, India.

Spectacular specimens in Sharon Beals’ new book – Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them.

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Christian Gideon got in touch about a fun project that he and his friends pulled off at an IKEA in Dallas – they photographed themselves as though living in the mock IKEA rooms. This all supposedly happened during store hours. You could never pull this off in the New York IKEAs, but I guess the Dallas IKEA is less crowded (and therefore a more pleasant place to shop)! Anyway, I enjoyed the fabricated domesticity captured in the photos, and like that if not for the occasional sales tag, you might not know that this isn’t just someone’s very IKEAish home…

Photographer Gabriela Herman created a series of portraits of bloggers in their natural habitat – in the dark with the glow of a computer screen.

So apparently dog sledding season is closing down for the year. Who knew? The Big Picture has a feature on sled races and while the pictures of dogs are really cute, the pictures of the race settings are even more amazing.

It’s cool to see artists work with public data, but they are usually visualizations of non-visual data. Project 12:31 is interesting because uses a visual data set (The Visible Human) to make a new visual interpretation of the information. Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott used the visible human animations to create a series of lightpaintings that give 3d life back to the 2d data.

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Classic photo of Brian Wenning’s switch heel at Love Park in a recent Mike Blabac interview.

From the National Geographic Flashback Archives:

ABRIDGED
An ancient Roman bridge spanned the Wadi al Murr near Mosul, Iraq, in the 1920s. Credited to German archaeologist Max von Oppenheim, this image never ran in the Geographic—nor did his manuscript for a story about his work at Tell Halaf, Syria, found with it in the photographic file. Von Oppenheim discovered the site (which dates from the sixth millennium B.C.) in 1899 and conducted excavations there over the next three decades. He shipped several treasures from the dig home to Berlin for exhibition in his personal museum, but many were destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in 1943. Objects salvaged from the rubble have recently been restored and are scheduled to go on display next year.

—Margaret G. Zackowitz