TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Third Place, Conservation Hope. A male white-spotted pufferfish creates an intricate spawning nest in the sand. The fish carefully shapes a t...

An Astronomy Photo of the Day , from NASA.

I'll post one more bird photo, because I don't want to end the blogging day with a photo of J.D. Vance at the top of the blog column...

It wasn't that long ago that Photoshop was the top-of-the-line image-altering program.  The new AI technology has left the crude tools o...

Posted for the beauty of the images. 

This hand-coloured scanning electron micrograph was the favourite of the jury in the section "Best Scientific Image". The imag...

This was the Astronomy Photo of the Day , showing a time-lapse image of the sky as seen in the Southern Hemisphere, looking toward the south...

One of the winning photos in the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards open competition. Celestial Dance . Shortlist, Motion. This young Lusita...

The underside of a brick bridge illluminated by light reflected off water, with perhaps something else casting a shadow - I haven't figu...

I don't want to end the blogging day with a picture of you-know-who at the top of the page, so I'll add this absolutely awesome phot...

A sika deer with the severed head of a rival male that died in their battle skewered on its antler.  Photograph: Kohei Nagira/Wildlife Photo...

Stanley Kubrick: Couple Flirting on a Fire Escape, Park Benches - Love is Everywhere series, 1946 Until I encountered this photo on Miss Fol...

Hats off to the Minnesota Star Tribune for posting this pair of images side-by-side.  I had seen the photo on the right and wanted to use i...

This photo was called an "accidental optical illusion" when it was posted at Reddit .  I think that's a very apt descriptio...

I previously posted an aerial image of this Italian mountaintop community about five years ago, but this evening image enhanced by city lig...

"In a land still soaked from the rainy season, a river stained with tannin from a nearby forest marbles the sand." From a set of ...

Mad Hatterpillar . Winner, Behavior: Invertebrates. Georgina Steytler showcases the strange headgear of a gum-leaf skeletonizer caterpillar....

"Two amphipods from the Cyproideidae family, each only measuring around 3 millimeters in body length, rest on a coral. Commonly called...

Both images were entries at NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day ( November 5, 2024 and July 2, 2025 ).  Relevant discussion at each link.

I've always been fascinated by places like this.  The one in this image is the Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Meteora in Greece.   Pr...