Pretty pictures

February 14th, 2005

This week’s batch:

Sam Javanrouh’s 7 cars, parking lot reminds me of a recent car advert involving a game of Connect-4 in a car park. Only with fewer cars and more snow.
The Visions of Science 2005 competition has just been launched. If the 2004 winners are anything to go by, the competition should produce some really striking images. I think my favourite from last year’s winners is Stephen Gschmeissner’s shot of eyelash mites. (I can’t link to it directly without breaking the site’s framed structure: if you go to the page listing the 2004 winners, it’s the second-placed entry in the Close-up section.)
Pixeldiva’s Photo Friday entry is, indeed, luscious.
This Astronomy Picture of the Day shot of the track left in the Martian surface by the discarded heat shield from the Opportunity probe may not be the most spectacular image ever seen on the site, but it’s still a favourite of mine. I just like seeing man-made artefacts elsewhere in the solar system, even if they have slightly disturbed the pristine surface of another planet.
Panoramas.dk has a lovely collection of 3D Quicktime panoramas from the Apollo lunar landing missions.

[Visions of Science site via Apothecary's Drawer Weblog, Apollo panoramas via The Sideshow]

Ray Girvan Says:
February 14th, 2005 at 12:42
You can link directly if you read the mouse-over address: here are those mites.
John Says:
February 14th, 2005 at 23:39
Yes, I know I can get the URL of the frame containing the image, but that breaks the page out of the frame and deprives the reader of the site’s navigation menu. I try not to do that if I can help it, though I suppose than now I think of it I could always have posted both a link to the site’s front page and the frameless page containing the image I was talking about.