I love these aerial photos of Kalbarri, Western Australia’s Hutt Lagoon, the world’s largest Beta Carotene farm by Australian engineer turned photographer Steve Back.

All images by www.stevebackart.com

“Colorful and unusual patterns pictures are what photographer Erno-Erik Raitanen calls self-portraits. The pictures, which Raitanen says are more like photograms, involve no camera, some photographic film, and bacteria.

The series, called Bacteriograms, is a display of Raitanen’s own body bacteria cultivated on the gelatin surface of film negatives, much like bacteria is grown in Petri dishes in a laboratory setting.”

from petapixel.com

Yuji Obata. Homage to Wilson A. Bentley 2005 – 2006

Yuji Obata’s stunning snow photographs are currently on view at Danziger in NYC.  They took my breath away.

Dr. Oliver Sacks explores prosopagnosia, or face blindness. The audio interview fascinating.
Read more and listen on the The New Yorker web site.

www.extremeicesurvey.org

James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey were featured in a one-hour documentary on NOVA/PBS on March 24, 2009. The film follows James as he photographs spectacular landscapes in Alaska, Greenland, and Iceland and, with his team, collects images from his time-lapse cameras.

These photo are all stunning.  It was hard for me to just pick a few for my blog.  I can’t wait to see the documentary later this month.  Be sure to check out the gallery on the site.

Photo: Alex Wild, NY Times
view gallery and article in the NY Times

Jose Almodovar, Diatoms (100X)

Pedro Barrios-Perez, Oxidation of III-V semiconductor through pin-hole (200X)

Charles Krebs,Wing scales of Urania riphaeus (Sunset moth) (100X)

Solvin Zankl. Kiel, Germany, Sergestes larva (deep-water decapod crustacean) (30x)

www.nikonsmallworld.com

One morning we work up at 5am and headed to the beach in Cirali,
Turkey. We met up with a scientist who helps the sea turtles get
through the sand and make their way to the sea after they hatched.
He let us watch the process.
It was an absolutely beautiful sight.

link to the full gallery

I am not really interested in video games but this sounds really cool.

As an intelligent romp through the sometimes contradictory realms of science, mythology, religion and hope about the universe around us, Spore both provokes and amuses. And as an agent of creativity it is a landmark. Never before have everyday people been given such extensive tools to create their digital alter ego.

-NY Times review of a new video game called Spore

Audubon Insectarium opens in New Orleans, NY Times Article

Insect photograph by Seze Devres taken at the Reading Museum in Pennsylvania, 2005