Aurora Borealis in strange, human form

The aurora is a glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone. For this reason some scientists call it a "polar aurora" (or "aurora polaris"). In northern latitudes, it is known as "aurora borealis" which is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora and the greek name for north wind, Boreas since in Europe especially, it often appears as a reddish glow on the northern horizon as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the "northern lights". The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and March to April.

Its southern counterpart, "aurora australis", has similar properties.

Aurora australis (September 11, 2005) as captured by NASA's IMAGE satellite.

Clouds form when the air rises. As a blob of air rises it expands and gets colder, the colder air cannot hold as much water as warmer air. As the temperature and air pressure continue to drop, tiny water droplets group together into clumps called cloud droplets. At this point, the blob of air becomes a visible cloud.

That's what some would say, but I don't believe a word of it. ;)

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Bubba, a smooth fox terrier, cools his heels during a game of swimming-pool fetch in Crystal River, Florida. Light shining into the pool creates a mirror on the underside of the water’s surface, giving the dog his all-legs look.

Bryce Canyon, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos."

The horse was domesticated in southern Ukraine about 5,000 years ago, and domestic horses have been introduced all over the world. The wild horses found in the U.S. are the descendants of domestic horses that escaped to the wild. Ten western states have wild horse populations, where they are sometimes called mustangs. In the East, the little Assateague Ponies are found on several islands off the coast of Virginia and Maryland.

These ARE the wild horses, but some horses are just wilder than others.

All right, Tom Cruise is cool guy an everything, but this little guy is for real!

:)

In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a fixed point, the centre. In nature's beauty, circle is much more than that.

I promised some heavenly photos, didn't I? So here they are. That is the closest that man could get to Heaven through camera.

Many cultures ascribed strong religious qualities to Earth's sky, believing it to be the home of the heavens and various deities. Among the Chinese, in certain situations, sky means god. For example, people may say "They became friends after several fights: this is the idea of the sky" or "Why does the sky always fool me?" Some religion and art historians believe that in Christianity, in particular, the connection between heaven and sky arose because of a medieval painting technique, where different places were drawn separately on the same picture. Heaven, a different and more important world, was usually painted above the earthly world and was separated from it by clouds.

Tomorrow I'll post some heavenly photos. ;)

Almost three-quarters of the Earth are covered by oceans and seas. These billions of ton of salty water are home to silent Sharks, playful Dolphins, huge Whales, spiny orange Crabs, giant Octopuses with their eight long arms, friendly turtles and fishes of all shapes and sizes. Beautiful under water gardens of bright colored coral provide a home for stinging sea anemones, poisonous sea slugs and deadly eels.

Many parts of the world's seas and oceans are too deep, dark and cold to support anything except small, simple, forms of life. Other places are so fantastically deep that nobody has ever been able to explore them. Someday, we may discover that even more incredible plants and animals than we imagined inhabit this silent, watery world.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

Douglas Adams

O yes, king of the jungle and his servants are also part of nature's beautiful side.

The disturbing fact is that the lion population of Africa has fallen from 200,000 twenty years ago to an appalling 23,000 today.

Clouds and dust haze appear white because they consist of particles larger than the wavelengths of light, which scatter all wavelengths equally. But sometimes there might be other particles in the air that are much smaller. Some mountainous regions are famous for their blue haze. Aerosols of terpenes from the vegetation react with ozone in the atmosphere to form small particles about 200 nm across, and these particles scatter the blue light.

Human beings need lungs to breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Without our lungs, we couldn't survive. Trees on the other hand, act like the lungs of the earth. Trees help the planet breathe by turning carbon dioxide into clean, pure, oxygen.
Trees and forests around the world also act like the planet's air conditioning system and keep the planet cool. They help stop global warming. Global warming happens when we burn too much oil or gasoline and when we cut down too many forests. Global warming makes the weather change in serious ways, which is why it's important to stop it from happening. Protecting forests keeps our planet cool.

These photos are funny, amusing, and sometimes weird. Weird photos and themes that leave a lasting impression, or maybe just make you laugh and are forgotten as they drift into the synaptic abyss. Comment!

Mission Impossible

That's Impawssible!

Humanly Shaped Nature, The Blurry Line Between Nature and Erotica

Humanly Shaped Nature, Part 2

Humanly Shaped Nature, Part 3

Funny Animal Pictures

Cutest Animals

Animal Revenge

Pelican Eats Pigeon

Chipmonk Ninja vs. Cat

Schizo Laughing Cat

Where Is My Dog?

Sometimes It's Hard To Stay Awake

3 Stages In A Men's Life

Humanly Shaped Nature, Part 4

Pictures of Hybrid "What If" Animals

Nature Is Funny

Panda Surprise

Don't Grab My Ass...

The Most Ugliest Dogs In The World

Crazy Animals, Video Collection

Patches, The Coolest Horse

Talking Cats

Cute Overload

Gibbon Taunts Tiger Cubs

Boxing Kangaroo

Cute Moments

Sparky vs. Mike Portnoy

Panda Prison Break

Hungry Little Cat

When Gets Hard...

Awww And Funny Pics

Dramatic Tarsius

Why is a forest important? Releases vapor which in turn produces clouds. Releases oxygen. Holds topsoil in place. Provides a home for plants, animals, and other living things. Releases nutrient like nitrogen back into the soil from naturally dying trees. Here is a collection of photos and wallpapers.

The Earth's Lungs

Wood pictures by Goran Katic

Grass pictures by Goran Katic

Humanly Shaped Nature, The Blurry Line Between Nature and Erotica

Mirko's Summer Photos

Carnivorous Plants

Beautiful Flowers, Wallpapers

Beautiful Flowers 2

Beautiful Flower by John Gavlas

Watermelon Art

Over long periods of time, mountains are created by tremendous forces in the earth with a steep top usually shaped up to a peak or ridge. Mountains occur more often in oceans than on land; some islands are the peaks of mountains coming out of the water. Mountains are formed by volcanism, erosion, and disturbances or uplift in the earth's crust. Most geologists believe that the majority of mountains are formed by geological forces heat and pressure producing changes under the earth's crust and movements in the earth's crust. They call this movement plate tectonics. This theory sees the crust of the earth divided into a number of vast rigid plates that move about at the rate of a few centimeters a year. The uplift is caused by the collision of plates below the earth's surface that triggers various geologic processes that produce this crustal uplift. Other processes are caused by horizontal compression that is the deformation of crustal strata which produces folds or wrinkles. The Himalayas, for example, were raised by the compression that accompanied collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate. Another example is Europe's Alps and Jura mountains which were also formed by horizontal compression, generated in their case by collision with the African plate and the Eurasian plate. Some ranges of low mountains are raised by nontectonic processes, and are caused by sculpturing effects of differential erosion. Erosion occurs when wind, rain and ice are present. Mountains are impacted by erosion through the combined action of wind, rain and ice changing the shapes of the mountains.
Volcanism causes mountains to form. Examples of mountains formed by periodically dangerous volcanic action are Mount Ranier and Mount Saint Helens in the United States, Mount Erebus in Antarctica, Mount Vesuvius in Italy, and Mount Fuji in Japan. Many of these volcanic mountains have summit craters that still emit steam and debris; others that no longer show signs of volcanic activity may only be dormant, not extinct. Shield volcanoes found in Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Hawaii are less spectacular even when quite high.

Here are some themes about volcanos, caves, canyons or just beautiful mountain peeks.

Bryce Canyon

Ash Cloud from Mount Ubinas, Peru

Beautiful Mountain Peeks

Vesuvius, Italy

Amazing Mountain Passage

The Sun is a restless object that is wracked by magnetic storms, flinging electrified gas into space, creating "space weather". Some of this material collides with the Earth causing the colourful aurorae and many other effects. Our only star, beautiful and dangerous in the same time. Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered what causes thunderstorms with heavy rain and bright lightning? Explore thunderstorms and other fascinating things from the sky.

Blue light from the sky

The sky above us

Heaven through lens

Clouds in the sky

Aurora

Fire rainbow, natural phenomena

Clouds and lightning, pictures by Goran Katic

Lightning

Funnel Cloud

A One In A Million Photo

Amazing Lightning Photos and Wallpapers

The Perfect Sunset Wallpaper

Aurora (Northern Lights)

Multiple Lightning Strokes

We do not know for a fact that space is infinite. Light is what we use to explore distant space, the light from stars. We know how fast light travels, so if we know how far away a star is, we know how long ago the star put out the light. From motion of the Earth, looking at a star at different times of the year, we know how far away the most distant galaxies we have ever seen are located. These are stars just coming into being, very young stars. This causes scientists to believe that there aren't many stars beyond. Still, they could be. It is possible that a very distant set of galaxies exists on itown, too far away for its light to have reached us yet. We do not know for sure. Until there is something to indicate its existence, scientists will try to explain things without it. Scientists prefer to use the simplest models possible that still agree with reality. I doesn't even metter is it or is it not space infinite. What matters is that there is infinite beauty in space. A piece of that beauty we will try to capture.

Space

Iceland through satellite

Moon

Comets

Spectacular Photo of Shuttle, Space Station And The Sun

Top 10 Amazing Hubble Photos

We Are Small And Insignificant

Blinding Saturn

About 70% of the Earth is covered with water, and 97% of that is part of the salty oceans. Only a small portion of the Earth's water is freshwater. This includes such things as rivers, lakes, and groundwater. Freshwater is needed for drinking, farming, and washing. There is even water in the form of ice at the poles. Without water, life as we know it would not exist.

Need a little ice?

Under the Sea

The Piranhas, Aggressive Predator

Water, A Source Of Life

Wonderful places to relax and to unwind. A perfect spots in our paradise.

Prigradica

More Prigradica pictures

Dalmatia, land of stone

Can't get enough of Prigradica's beauty

Omis, city of pirates

Bryce Canyon

Sunset, pictures from Croatia

Plitvice Lakes and Waterfalls

Salt Flats, Chile

Ballica Cave

Blue Lake Cave

Yellowstone, National Park

Pamukkale, Natural Wonder of Turkey

Beautiful Landscapes Of Iceland

Beauty of Latin America

Patagonia - To The End Of The World

At Nature's Mighty Pictures, our purpose is to inform you about animals we find unique, rare, special, or interesting. Although we do not have information on all animals, please remember that they all are - amazing, filled with astonishment or wonder, to confound, to perplex.
We have chosen these animals carefully and tried to present useful and fun information.

We hope you enjoy the site!

King of the jungle and his servants

Wild Horse, Equus caballus

The Ugly Bugs

Lyrebird, The Amazing Mimic Bird

Why are insects so important?

Through The Eyes Of The Bee

What young animals are called? - pictures of baby animals

Macro Photography

Diabolical Bugs

The Crocodiles

Micro Scale Videos - Bugs Vs. Machines

The Piranhas, Aggressive Predator

Albino Animals, Myths And Facts

Hybrid Animals, Strange Nature

Hybrid Animals, Part 2

Cutest Animals

Little Wild Cats, Wallpapers

Use of animals for the amusement of the crowd

Wolves

Animal Story

Zebra beats Lioness

Beautiful Animals Wallpapers

Big 5 From Africa

Awwwwwwwwwww, Cute Animals

Time Lapse of Cicada Moulting

Run Pig, Run!

Nomura's Jellyfish

Porn sparks panda baby boom in China

Spiders

Christmas Animals

Archerfish Catching Prey...

Polar Bears

Rare "Prehistoric" Shark

Sweet Pea, Seahorse

Nursing Monkey

Rabbit Kicks Snake Butt

Ornithologist finds bird last seen 139 years ago

Elephant Birth In The Wild

Knut, Cute Little Polar Bear

Otters Holding Hands

Move Over, Knut...

Great White Attack!

Generosity Among Rats

Top 10 World's Scariest and Ugliest Insects

How to Survive an Encounter With an Ostrich

Flocke - German Polar Bear Cub

Saving Endangered Sea Turtles

Cat And Mouse Friends

Oarfish

All that stuff that can't be sorted, but have to be seen.

Nature with a little help from computer

Tribute to Van Gogh

When Sun hits the spot

Circles in nature

For your EYES only

Coolest Picture Ever

Nature's Textures

Crazy Cat Animation

Pictures Of Steve Irwin's Death

Let Me Out!

Niagara Falls Frozen Over - 1911

Nature From Edna

Penguins; Animation

Amazing Facts

Kobayashi vs Giant Bear

Strange Nature

Beauty

Deer vs. Man

Customized Cats

Bear Attack On TV Show

Beautiful pictures From Around The World

"Ashes and Snow" photographer screens rarely-seen film

New "Ugliest Dog" Crowned, 2007

Cat on LSD

Blonde Chick With Nice Pussy

David Attenborough Makes Final Wildlife Series

DENMARK: WHAT A SHAME, A SAD SHAME

Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. The first satellite photographs of Earth were made April 1, 1960 by the weather satellite TIROS-1. In the early 21st century satellite imagery became widely available when affordable, easy to use software with access to satellite imagery databases became offered by several companies and organizations. In 2005 the Australian company Astrovision (ASX: HZG) announced plans to launch the first ever commercial Geostationary satellite in the Asia-Pacific. It will provide true color, real-time live satellite feeds, with down to 250 metres resolution over the entire Asia-Pacific region, from India to Hawaii and Japan to Australia. They intend to provide this content to users of 3G mobile phones, over Pay TV as a weather channel, and to corporate and government users.

Omis, the town of contrasts, both - natural and historical. It was founded and grown on the steep slopes of Omis Dinara mountain, surrounded by the Cetina River in the north-west, and the sea in the south and south-east. Omis is also known as old pirate town. As excellent seamen, Omis citizens, during 13th - beginning of 15th century, “supervised” navigation on the Adriatic Sea, endangering, generally, Venetian ships and their property in Dalmatia, as well as ships of Naples Kingdom. They were “taking charges” for free navigation. Omis pirates were extremely dangerous, especially under rule of powerful Omis rulers - dukes Kacic. In that time, Omis was known as dangerous nest of the pirates, as they were Saracens on Mediterranean Sea or Tatars on Black Sea.

The most distinctive feature of Omis are the enormous sheets of rock that loom over the town and river.

The statue of Mila Gojsalic

In 1530, as the Turks were encamped in Gata, the people of Poljica, though less in number, defeated their army with the heroic and noble efforts of Mila Gojsalic. Mila sacrificed her life by lighting gunpowder in the Turkish camp, which allowed the people of Poljica to defeat the confused and surprised army. With this act, Mila became a legend of courage, love and sacrifice, not only for the people of Poljica, but also for Croatia. She is remembered much like the Old Testament's Judith and France's Joanne d'Arc. She was perpetuated by many Croatian artists, among them is famous Ivan Meštrovic, whose sculpture decorates the position in Poljica with unforgettable view over town of Omis.

After all that ice in previous post, I thought that it would be nice to have something different. Better to say, something opposite. Yin & Yang. Some sand dunes, some burned earth. That just made me thirsty.

Each day the Nature's Mighty Pictures brings you new, exciting and beautiful images from all over the amazing world of nature, but every friday we post some really special picture. Click here and send us a pictures that made you breathless and we could share them with the whole world.

Ultra Deep Field (week 1)

Embryo (week 2)

In The Deep (week 3)

Mountains In The Lake (week 4)

Pahoehoe Fountain (week 5)

Solar Eclipse (week 6)

Amazing Sunset (week 7)

Mt. Everest From Space (week 8)

Earth At Night (week 9)

Oranges In The Bubble (week 10)

Moon Above North Pole (week 11)

Hurricane Isabel (week 12)

Beautiful Hi Res Aurora Borealis (week 13)

Amazing Mountain Passage (week 14)

Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning (week 15)

I hope that this pictures will help you fight the waves of hot temperature that is ahead of us. Some of these locations reminded me of upcoming Superman movie and how they could be very easily used as a terrain for Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

O yes, Superman knows how to pick a good spot... :)

A natural disaster is the consequence of the combination of a natural hazard (a physical event e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide) and human activities. Human vulnerability, caused by the lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, structural, and human losses. The resulting loss depend on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, their resilience. This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability". A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement. A Natural Hazard is an event that has an effect on people resulting from the natural processes in the environment.

Amazing storms

1906, The San Francisco Earthquake, Nature's Dark Side

Tornado, A Violently Rotating Column Of Air

Hail, One Of The Most Costly Natural Disasters

Tornado and Storm Pictures

The Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989

Vesuvius, Italy

Guatemala Sinkhole

Volcano

Just came back from Van Gogh's exhibition and I would like to make a little tribute to great artist.

Enjoy!

Sometimes the computers aren't so bad after all. ;) In modern photography more and more photographers take advantage of the "digital darkroom", known as Photoshop, to refine the expressive content of their work.

These beautiful pictures are also taken on my dearest island - Korcula. Although I must say that scenes on these pictures have much more strength when you see them live, through your eyes.

Some say that Dalmatians are lazy people. I use to say that they are just resting of all hard work that had to be done in the past in order to survive. This picture is proof of that hard work. The whole island is full of heaps of stone piled up through the centuries by hard working hands which picked out the stones from the barren clearings in order to wrest the thin layers of soil from the karst and plant in it the vine and olive.

The most beautiful place on island of Korcula deserves a few more pictures and more to come.

Prigradica was built in the 19th century as the export-harbour for the wine and olive oil from Blato. Prigradica has many old stone houses built as store-rooms for agricultural purposes. Many songs have been written about this peaceful little village. It is an attractive tourist resort today. There are numerous leasing houses with private apartments, 2 restaurants, a supermarket and the small boarding-house.