Baby Seal relaxing and enjoying at the Beach

Baby Seal relaxing and enjoying at the Beach

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Outdoor Photography at its best

Outdoor Photography at its best 

This picture by Sudipto Das, from West Bengal, entitled Homebound 

 This picture taken by Andy Teasdale, from Gwynedd, and titled Wild Times on Grand Paradiso in the Italian Alps

 Photographer Paul Reiffer, from Dorset, his shot of Horse Shoe Bend in the Grand Canyon

 A plane coming into land in Andy Palmer's picture of London City Airport 

 Nik Sargent, Ely, took this snap of a remote church

 Sujan Sarkar's wonderful picture of a remote lake 

  Stairway to Heaven by Anton Petrus

 Andreas Ettl's Earth on Fire, taken in the stunning moonlike landscape of southern Iceland

 Philip Bird's The Sun Strikes Elephant Rock taken at Ayers Rock in Australia

 Hungarian photographer Aron Suveg with this mountain shot

Andreas Ettl, from Germany, captured a rainbow next to Seljalandsfoss, a waterfall in southern Iceland

Sperm whale EXPLODING

Sperm whale EXPLODING  

 Marine biologist Bjarni Mikkelse cutting open the whale which has washed on-shore

 Without warning a trapped pocket of gas in the carcass bursts

 Within a fraction of a second the whale's insides burst out from the carcass

 the whale's insides were flung for several yards across the beach in the Faroe Islands

 The whale had become trapped and was too heavy for locals to help

A map showing the location of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic

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Microscopic realm of Ladybirds

Microscopic realm of Ladybirds

 Wildlife photographer Alejandro Ferrer has spent two years capturing the microscopic realm of insects

 Despite measuring only millimetres across, 34-year-old photographer Alejandro Ferrer has captured the ladybirds in crystal-clear detail

 Alejandro uses a Nikon D90, Tamron 90mm F2 macro lens 8, 530super ST sigma flash and a diffuser to create the images

It's a ladybug's life! 

 black and red spotted ladybirds.

Simply amazing

Autumn in the Scottish Highlands

Autumn is a beautiful time of year in Scotland as the glow of fiery shades lights the countryside. September can be just as warm as the summer months (sometimes warmer!) and is often regarded as one of the best months to visit Scotland.[Source]

I think there's been some color manipulation, but there are certainly days that it looks exactly like that.

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Grasshoppers that look like Twigs

 Two Horsehead Grasshoppers with their arms around each 

Super Typhoon Haiyan

Super Typhoon Haiyan  blows over Pacific Ocean & Philippines 

 A digital composite of Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines

  Typhoon Haiyan taken by Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg aboard the Internatioal Space Station

 Satellite picture of Super typhoon Haiyan posted on Twitter by NASA 

 Residents of  Albay province, south of Manila,were forced to flee the coast as Typhoon Haiyan approached

Red Cross states that 1,000 of the 1,200 people were killed by the typhoon were residents of Tacloban

Before & After : Tacloban bore the full force of the winds and the tsunami-like storm surges

 Devastation left by typhoon Haiyan in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, central Philippines

 Acres of flooded rice fields in the Iloilo Province, another area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan

Destroyed houses on Victory Island  in Eastern Samar province, central Philippines

Surivors in Tacloban  are so desperate for food that they have been forced to loot shops and steal from the dead

 Estimates of 10,000 dead d might be low. The dead, decomposing and stinking, litter the streets or are buried in the debris

Devastation in some parts has been total

Elephant gets shocked after its trunk is grabbed by a Crocodile at the water Hole

Elephant gets its trunk grabbed by a Crocodile at the water Hole 

Amusing pictures were captured in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park

 Elephant doesn't see the waiting crocodile at the peaceful watering hole 

The crocodile grabs hold of the elephant's trunk, but it soon becomes clear that he has bitten off a lot more than he can chew  

 Elephant soon escapes from the crocodile's jaws, but by the startled look on it's face you can tell he had a shock

Elephant gives the sneaky crocodile a fright to show him who's boss

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