These spiky little bunches of ice, called frost flowers, form on thin and new ice in the Arctic Ocean. (Photos by Mattias Wietz)
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mike korostelev gets up close and personal with a salt water crocodile off the mexican island banco chinchorro in the gulf of mexico
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Try out these Halloween themed color palettes before October ends!
Nightscape: #0d0d0e #17151d #292c59 #29589f #2796ff
Sour Apple Candy:#bac683 #98c246 #439e11 #204e00 #1b2600
Ruby Witch: #450019 #78021f #7e2c2e #965336 #cdad75
Starry Eyed: #080320 #180433 #48096f #d5b774 #f7ff71
Raven's Way: #0b0908 #110d0c #1c1112 #500813 #830013
Pumpkin Fever: #c3e76a #b7ea31 #f4b227 #ff5003 #6f0083
Halloween: #ffe558 #ffae2f #ff5a00 #832e01 #080202
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Neon blue lava pours from Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen Volcano. The reason it’s blue is because the mountain contains large amounts of pure sulfur, which emits an icy violet colors as it turns. It turns the rocky slopes into a hot, toxic environment. (Article)
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Alishan Forest | ©Weisi Guo (Yushan National Park, Taiwan)
photos by matt smith from the Illawarra coast in new south wales of bluebottles, violet snails and blue dragons.
despite its resemblance to the jellyfish, the bluebottle is more closely related to coral. known as a zooid, the bluebottle (or portugese man of war) is a colonial animal composed of many highly specialized and physiologically integrated individual organisms incapable of independent survival.
the blue dragon — a type of nudibranch, here no larger than a thumbnail, with its own potent sting — is able to eat the nematocysts (stinging cells) of the bluebottle without discharging them and internally relocate them to the tips of each one of the fingers you can see in the pictures.
for their part, the violet snails also feed on the bluebottles.
notes matt, “despite their potentially dangerous sting, the bluebottle is an amazingly beautiful creature. with strong winds, hundreds of these cnidaria are blown into the bays around my home town and trapped overnight.”
this allows him to capture the above shots, which he creates with use of a fluorescent tube in his strobe light and a homemade waterproof lens dome.
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