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32 Pictures To Help You Appreciate The Awesomeness Of Nature

32 Pictures To Help You Appreciate The Awesomeness Of Nature
October 12, 2010 | 136 Comments » | Topics: Awesome, Nature Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories

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Castles Around the World. Part 2 - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer.

Eyjafjallajokull Pictures of the spectacular Icelandic volcano. Incidentally, it's E-YAH-FEE-YAT-LA-JO-KEY-OAK-COOL. Get it right or you'll piss it off. Photos by Skarphéðinn Þráinsson and by Marco Fulle. Castles Around the World. Part 1 - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life "A man's home is his wife's castle." ~ Alexander Chase Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany Agra Fort, India Avila, Spain

36 Pictures That Look Photoshopped – But Are Not The power of Photoshop is amazing, but still it doesn’t beat the power of imagination. Although many photos taken by professional photographers and enhanced in Photoshop can be absolutely stunning, the photos taken wisely and in a creative manner are even more impressive. Today’s showcase is dedicated to such photos, the ones that make people skeptical about not being manipulated and still they are genuine and impressive. They can be really inspiring and a pride to every photographer’s portofolio, no matter if they are funny, dramatic or just miracles of nature. Salar de Uyuni 106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year 2010 More info. More info. More Banksy on Street Art Utopia. Macro Photos of Dew-Soaked Dandelions by Sharon Johnstone EmailEmail UK-based photographer Sharon Johnstone uses her macro lens like a key to open the fascinating world of little things. She comes back with a beautiful collection of macro photographs showing tiny drops of dew on dandelions. “With macro photography I escape to another little world.

Castles Around the World. Part 3 - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life - AmO Images: Capturing the Beauty of Life "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth." ~ Francis Bacon Château de Chillon, Switzerland

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