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Picture of the Day: The Rocky Wave
The Wave is located on the Colorado Plateau, near the Utah and Arizona border. The area is a gallery of twisted sandstone, resembling deformed pillars, cones, mushrooms and other odd creations.
26 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Flood in Michigan
25 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Into the Dragon’s Lair
In this vivid capture, we see the entrance to Rådhuset metro station. Rådhuset (Court House) is a rapid transit station in Kungsholmen in central Stockholm, part of the Stockholm metro.
24 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Perfectly Timed Photo
23 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Sunrise at Easter Island
In this stunning aerial photograph by Pierre Lesage we see Easter Island at sunrise. Lesage specializes in kite aerial photography (KAP). This particular photo was taken with a Ricoh GX 200 camera with a Wide Angle converter.
22 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Forest on Shipwreck Island
In this reflective beauty by Bruce Hood, we see the shipwrecked SS Ayrfield in Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia. The photograph was taken from Wentworth point, and what truly remarkable are all of the trees growing on the abandoned ship! Nature always finds a way
19 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Zhangye Danxia Landform
Zhangye Danxia Landform is concentrated predominantly in Linze and Sunan counties in Gansu Province. It is both the largest and the most typical of China's arid area danxia landforms. Because of aridity, the Zhangye Danxia Landform differs from that of south China. It is very dry and desolate, without any vegetation, so geologists call this "window lattice and palace-shaped Danxia topography”.
18 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Atop Earth’s Atmosphere
In this breathtaking photograph we see the crescent moon through the top of Earth’s atmosphere. The image was taken above 21.5°N, 113.3°E by International Space Station crew Expedition 13 on July 20, 2006 over the South China Sea, just south of Macau.
17 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Chateau de Chenonceau
The Château de Chenonceau is a French château near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Loire Valley of France. The château was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher and was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l’Orme.
16 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: First Flight
In this momentous occasion, we see two baby common goldeneye ducks leaving the nest and taking to the air for their first ever flight. The expressions on their face are priceless! What an amazing event to witness :)
15 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Moonrise Time-Lapse Over LA
In this incredible photo/animated gif/time-lapse video (the latter two can be seen below), we see a brilliant moonrise over Los Angeles, California. The footage was captured by Dan Marker-Moore, a motion designer and artist from LA. The time sliced image above is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds.
11 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Just a Big Cat
In this adorable (yet still slightly nerve-wracking!) close-up we see a male lion licking one of its front paws. The photograph was taken by Solara Santoni, a 16-year-old from South Africa who has some wonderful animal photographs on her deviantART profile.
10 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: The Black Iceberg
In this rare sighting we see a black iceberg. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia:Most icebergs are white except along freshly calved ice cliffs, which tend to appear blue. Others may appear green, brown or black, or combinations of these colours.
09 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Cats
08 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Coal Train Sunset
In this amazing capture by Tom Danneman (MRL 390 on Flickr), we see a northbound BNSF coal train heading across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. Danneman says the Powder River Basin where this was taken is a beautiful location for sunsets.
05 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: The Tsunami Cloud
This incredible photograph was taken by Gary Brink (1/800, ƒ/9, ISO 200, 135 mm) on May 29, 2011, at the Holland State Park in Michigan, USA. The incredible cloud formation formed on Lake Michigan just off the beach.
04 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Vintage Submarine Control Room from 1918
Have you ever seen so many valves? I count at least 23! You are looking at the control room of the UB-110 German Submarine (looking aft, starboard side).
03 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: A Horizon Rainbow in Paris
Have you ever seen a horizon rainbow before? This fascinating phenomenon was recently captured by photographerBertrand Kulik in Paris, France. According to Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day(APOD):
02 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: The Eye of the Drain
Certainly a contender for ‘perfectly timed’ photo of the year is this shot by a Redditor named Liam, who took a seemingly mundane photograph of a sink full of soapy water draining itself. Why Liam was even taking such a random shot to begin with makes the shot even better:
29 Mar 2013, business.mega.mu
Picture of the Day: Reflection Affection
In this fantastic night-time reflection photo, we see the beautiful Dongbaekseom Island (now part of the mainland) in Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea.
28 Mar 2013, business.mega.mu