Retreating Glacier : timelapse video

This remarkable image sequence captures a series of massive calving events at Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. Composed of 436 frames taken between May and September of 2007, it shows the glacier rapidly retreating by about half a mile (1.6 kilometers), a volume loss of some 0.4 cubic miles (1.67 cubic kilometers) of ice or 400 billion gallons (1.5 trillion liters) of water.

The time-lapse was taken as part of the ongoing Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), an ambitious project to capture global warming-induced glacial retreat in the act. Beginning in December 2006, photographer James Balog and his colleagues set up 26 solar-powered cameras at glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, the Alps, and the Rocky Mountains. Each unit will take a photograph every daylight hour until fall 2009.

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Buffalo Lion Crocodile

A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

Leopard and Baboon

Her name is Legadema (lah-heh-deem-uh)—Setswana for "light from the sky"—and she has illuminated documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert's understanding of how a leopard learns and survives in the wild. Since discovering her at eight days old—and for three years following—they tracked her movements in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Watch her in these scenes from the Joubert's film Eye of the Leopard.

Morning Poetry

talirin tumbil
kulirin cimizhu
atinullilum
undarivin niravu

atutaanallayo naam tedendatu
atutaanallayo naam nedendatu…


pearl drop glistens
on a leaf blade’s tip—
there is fullness of wisdom
even in that drop.

isn’t that drop all we need
isn’t it all we should get

-- vipinan

pappaya

pappaya
Originally uploaded by dhyanji.

this picture featured in the interestingness of the flicker explore.
this pappaya is situated in the ashram grounds of amritapuri.
when i saw the pappaya i was so fascinated.
my sony dfc575 camera did a wonderful job.