Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6AM , showing the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year (2010sep-2011sep).
Taken by METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

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This photo was taken a while ago— back in late April when it was so cloudy and rainy in Ohio that it felt like the Pacific Northwest.  The rain has stopped temporarily, but for the most part has continued since April.  Last year, it was such a dry summer that it’s a nice change.

I’m not one to typically complain about any season of weather, however.  When it becomes too much, then you might hear me say a negative word about it, but otherwise I’d rather enjoy it for what it is.  

Thus, a self-portrait shoot out in the rain.

Little Dragon, Glastonbury 2011

By mister sullivan

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Hilary and Sean have said their I Do’s!

June 11th, 2011
St. Elizabeth’s Cathedral in Cincinnati 

itsjanna:

Before And After of the Day: Missourian Aaron Fuhrman — a self-taught landscape photographer — has been traveling around Joplin, photographing heartrending panoramic shots of the devastation left in the aftermath of Sunday’s tornado.

Fuhrman lined up one of these panoramic photos with a Google Street View screencap of the same intersection to illustrate the comprehension-challenging extent of damage caused by the twister.

[buzzfeed.]

The never ending spring rain, 2011.

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This Is Not a Painting

Brian Barrett for Gizmodo

What you’re looking at isn’t a painting. It’s not a Photoshop job or an artist’s rendering. It’s a photograph, taken by National Geographic’s Frans Lanting, that captures the camel thorn trees of Namib-Naukluft Park at the most perfect moment imaginable.

That orange backdrop? That’s a dune reflecting Namibia’s rising sun. And while the trees themselves look like etchings of a dream, they’re a very real part of one of the country’s largest national parks. It’s beautiful, it’s serene, it’s surreal. And it’s still almost impossible to believe that the only paintbrush used was nature’s. [National Geographic via The High Definite]