The Incredible Beauty of Hummingbirds in Flight
OK, Pedantic man says they are stills, and hummingbirds hover, so they’re not really showing flight.
Here’s one I took a few years ago. Not quite as high resolution, because didn’t (don’t) have a zoom lens that zooms in very much, so this is just a cropped portion of the photo.
10 Most Incredible Waterfalls of Ice
BP (before physics) I used to wonder how waterfalls could freeze. But if one looks at the physics, it’s apparent that the motion of water moving in a stream, river or waterfall is small compared to the thermal motion, so this motion really has little effect.
Take a peek at picture #5, showing the frozen outer cylinder, with water still falling inside of it.
And I say, it’s alright.
Amazing images of the sun at The Big Picture
Nudibranches. (Latin for “Naked sea creatures.” Sort of.)
Or try this since the other link seems to be broken.
10 Incredible Underground Lakes and Rivers
Some of the reflections make for incredible pictures.
Birefringent. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
In my earlier discussion of polarization, I promised some photos of stress-induced birefringence.
If you have a polarizing filter, you can use an LCD as a polarized light source and view birefringent materials using it as a backdrop. Make the screen as white as possible, and rotate the polarizer until it blocks the light. Then place a birefringent material in front of the screen and look through the polarizer. Cheap clear plastic often will have stress-induced birefringence.
Which is what I did, and is why the background is black. The first photo is the plastic box in which the polarizers were packaged
These next two are the side and top views of a styrene drawer from a small storage cabinet, placed on top of an empty CD spindle.
