dsc.discovery.com — Many of Egypt’s most famous monuments, such as the Sphinx and Cheops, contain hundreds of thousands of marine fossils, most of which are fully intact and preserved in the walls of the structures, according to a new study.
The image above is an unretouched photo taken on a cold gray spring morning. I guess it doesn’t say much for either the camera or the photographer, but it actually turned out rather well for what I wanted it for, as an allusion to Matsuo Basho’s haiga and his crow on a bare branch haiku and honoring Basho. The haiku also reflects my own experience on April 20, 2008.
Unlike vampires, photos rarely come out at night, so kudos to the winners of our night photo contest. After two weeks of steady battle, these 10 photos have emerged victorious. Baron Von Foss won the contest with his photo “Wrong Era” at left. The Baron will be receiving a Wired T-shirt, a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.
Since we had so many great photos that we thought should have received more votes, we’ve also compiled a Wired.com Editor’s Choice Night Photo Gallery.
Our next bi-monthly photo contest is macro photography. It’s time to get up close and personal with the world around you and make something small seem gigantic. Check out the contest page for more information.
Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Credit & Copyright: Alex Mukensnable Explanation: Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose over the Hawaiian Islands on February 20. A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic Mauna Kea on the Big Island, a popular spot for astronomers, offered this remarkable play of shadows and sunlight. With snowy cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon lies within the shadow cast by the mountain — a shadow extending across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth’s dense atmosphere. As the lunar eclipse is drawing to a close, the curved shadow of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the Moon’s surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.
HBO has just premiered an extrodinary documentary about
The Gates
In 1979, the provocative artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude approached New York City officials with a proposal to create a temporary, large-scale work of art in Central Park. The city turned them down. Twenty-four years and several administrations later, following dozens of high-concept, high-profile works of landscape art in numerous urban and rural locations around the globe, they finally got the city’s approval to complete their vision. THE GATES chronicles the decades-long struggle of Christo and Jeanne-Claude to bring their most ambitious work of art to life. Read more.
It reminded me of this sweet video I found with Bhagavan Das walking and praying through The Gates.
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