Pretty pictures

I haven’t been able to keep up with the various photoblogs I keep tabs on very well lately, but here are a few nice pieces I’ve spotted as I play catch-up:

• It took me several looks before I figured out what JagedEdge by foureyes was actually depicting.
• Loneliness by ssilence is much nicer to contemplate from the comfort of a warm room than it is to walk through. Still pretty, though.
• Noah Grey’s shot of Red Pepper In Birdcage Stand, July 2003 depicts exactly what you’d expect, but doesn’t look like what you’d expect at all.
• Martine at frangipani marked her return to Japan from a year-end vacation by posting an exquisite image that just demands to be turned into your computer’s desktop wallpaper.
• Beard at Chromagenic is very nice indeed.
• Sam Javanrouh has, as usual, come up with some lovely images in and around Toronto. His shot of the Ontario College of Art and Design building is quite striking - I suspect that the building actually looks better in snowy conditions, where it at least matches the rest of the landscape. Then there’s his shot of Toronto’s eastern skyline (which, oddly, doesn’t look to me as if it includes any of the city’s buildings.)
• I can’t make my mind up which of these two images at emptyPictures is my favourite - the quite abstract close-up, or the clearer second image of the whole animal.
• A couple of beauties from Graham at Sensitive Light: birds are a speciality, but this shot of an Irish wolfhound and her master is especially nice.
• The Fireworks Galaxy more than lives up to its name. Spectacular.