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The Dark Shade of White
“It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finnaly, inevitably won out.”
―Christmas in the Snow
Photographer Unknown, (Forward into Space)
Photographer Unknown, Bali Python, Indonesia
Matt Smith, “Half Over, Half Under”
“Physalia Physalis” – Bushrangers Bay, NSW, Australia
Originally from Britain, Smith immigrated to Australia after falling in love with the country’s Pacific coastline. It is here that he perfected his unique over/under shots. Mr Smith’s striking photographs have attracted international attention and earned him the title of Nature Photographer of the Year, BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year.
Photographer Unknown, Horned Owl
Photographer Unknown, (Branches of Color)
Photographer Unknown, Title Unknown, (Blue Black Feathers)
Photographer Unknown, (Yellow Eyes Behind the Mask)
Sergio Velasco Garcia, “Colima Volcano Explosion”,
This photo won third prize in the Nature category of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest.
The Colima Volcano in Mexico shows a powerful night explosion with lightning and some incandescent rockfalls. The photo was taken on December 13, at a distance of 12.5 kilometers away from the crater near a lagoon named Carrizalillos on Comala Municipality. This particular bolt of lightning is more than 600 meters tall, lighting details of the south portion of volcano in this 8 second exposure.
Photographer Unknown, (The Attentive Eye)
“It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn’t coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Photographer Unknown, (The Wake)
Photographer Unknown, (Wood Girdled with Wood)
Photographer Unknown, (Lizard in Baltic Amber: Eocene Period)
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Seen Through Clear Vision
“Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools – like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.”
― Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf’s Eyes
Photographer Unknown, (Strikes)