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Living Lab
8:24 am
Mon September 30, 2013

PHOTOS: Photography and the Natural World

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Credit Mila Zinkova
Earth Science Picture of the Day: Thin Section of an Achondrite
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Credit Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Credit The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA
Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
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Credit Emory Kristof / National Geographic
1991 | North Atlantic Rusted prow of the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in April 1912.
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Credit Paul Nicklen / National Geographic
2006 | Antarctica “I expected this leopard seal to flee with her catch, a live penguin chick, but she dropped it on my camera,”
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Credit Paul Nicklen / National Geographic
2004 | Canada Its image mirrored in icy water, a polar bear travels submerged—a tactic often used to surprise prey. Scientists fear global warming could drive bears to extinction sometime this century.
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Credit James Balog / National Geographic
2009 | Jökulsárlón Iceland Destined to melt, an 800-pound chunk of ice glowed in the moonlight. It washed up in a lagoon created by a receding glacier, part of a worldwide shrinkage of glacial ice.
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Credit Brian Skerry / National Geographic
2011 | Gulf of California, Mexico Snared and doomed by a gill net, a thresher shark is among an estimated 40 million sharks killed each year just for their fins.
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Credit National Geographic
National Geographic images from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine.
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Credit Kailen Mooney, University of California, Irvine
Science360: Pictured here are aphids (Aphis nerii) feeding on a milkweed plant (Asclepias incarnata). Herbivores can take toxins produced in plants and store them in their own bodies, thus affording them some protection against predators.
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Credit NOAA
Dust Swirls in the Taklamakan Desert: A remote area in northwest China, this image from the Suomi NPP VIIRS instrument taken on September 26, 2013, the sands can be seen blowing up to the mountain edges of the desert, creating a haze over the surface.

Photography can show us what we would otherwise be unable to see - outer space, the deep sea, even the cells within our own bodies. In doing so, photographs can advance our understanding of the natural world.

Here is a collection of some of the photos we enjoyed, while exploring the interplay between photographers, science, and how technological advances have changed our ability to document and visualize the natural world.

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Credit Brian Skerry
First Encounter, Southern Right Whale approaches diver in the Auckland Islands (sub-antarctic, New Zealand) www.brianskerry.com

Find Photos for yourself Here:

Earth Science Picture of the Day

NASA Earth Observatory

NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab

Some images from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/power-of-photography/draper-text

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