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Environmental Graffiti dishes up a great set of images.  The above pic is real!  Lots to see here.

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The Sun

Apparently this is the sharpest yet view of our day star, and boy does it look delicious.  That giant (relatively speaking, of course), roiling mass of energy is really something to behold.  I wonder what f-stop was used to take that image?  I bet it was a little bright.

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Saturn V Launch Views - High Speed Cams

Whoa now this is nice. The footage is fantastic and really a great treatise on fire, smoke and flame. I see all these things are various particle effects. Seeing their behavior in real life, slowed down to such a degree is nothing short of fantastic. This coupled with some great music (from Battlestar Galactica no less) makes for some very cool viewing.

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Solargraph taken by Justin Quinnell

Photographer Justin Quennell has taken these amazing long exposure shots that clearly illustrate the Suns motion through the sky (or really the Earths motion around the Sun, but hey….).  These shots range in exposure from 3 to 6 months!  Taken with a pinhole camera they have an ethereal quality to them, but the cool thing to me is that that ethereal quality is made by something as fundamentally real as the Earth’s motion through space.

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All about Solarography

“smokey-6″ by magicnikon

Nice collection of flowing, smokey images.  Lots of variety here, from dry ice to house on fire, there is a lot of smoke in this post!

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Normally high speed photography is something I avoid, just because it always seems so redundant. However this is a nice collection of mostly well composed and thought out images. Of course they can’t avoid the cliche images (the egg, milk drop, etc.) but at least there is no bullet card in this one! Really though there are some very nice looking images here, nice food for inspiration.

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Lake Carnegie Australia

Environmental Graffiti has compiled a list of beautiful, abstract images of earth as seen by satellites. Many of these images look alien in origin but all are simple satellite images. Delicious and a lot to absorb.

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From ‘Silent World’ series by Michael Kenna

British photographer Michael Kenna’s series of beautiful photographs captures a world without people. Nearly every image is a stunning example of composition and subject choice. Here he reveals a world without us in it, just the environment we live in and create. Fantastic.

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Michael Kenna Official Site

I’m nearly speechless with the beauty of these shots. Cassini-Huygens is the NASA/ESA/ASI space probe whose mission is to study Saturn. It’s been in orbit for awhile and has delivered some stunning imagery (as well as some useful scientific information) of our giant ringed brother. I don’t have words to describe these images, they are beautiful on numerous levels. The composition and crop work of the individual who put these together really makes them shine, and the fact that they are effectively in black and white makes them so much more visceral. Do not miss these!

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