Year: 2008
Wave breaking over Antarctic Iceberg
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high resolution: Wave breaking over Iceberg, originally uploaded by blather. Wave breaking over Iceberg in the Southern Ocean. That's a couple of petrels you can see flying by the lower part of the berg, gives a sense of scale.
Polychrome Mountain, Denali National Park
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high resolution version: Polychrome Mountain, Denali National Park, originally uploaded by blather. Polychrome Mountain, Denali National Park, Alaska
Lonely Adelie Penguin – Pygoscelis adeliae
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae - in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica. In 1830, French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded by blather. Get high quality version: Lonely Adelie Penguin - Pygoscelis adeliae , originally uploaded...
Campbell Albatross, Southern Ocean
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Campbell Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of campbell albatross » Campbell Albatross or mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophris impavida, in front of a Southern Ocean wave. Yet another albatross on the World Conservation Union's Red List - listed as vulnerable Campbell Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris impavida, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of Campbell Albatross » Campbell Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris impavida, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of Campbell Albatross » Campbell Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris impavida, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of Campbell Albatross »
Salvin’s Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Salvin's Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of the Salvin's Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini » Salvin's Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini, 21st December 2007. Salvin's Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of the Salvin's Albatross » Salvin's Albatross or mollymawk, Southern Ocean, Thalassarche salvini, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of theSalvin's Albatross or mollymawk,»
Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Wandering Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the royal albatross» They're listed as "vulnerable" by the IUCN - this is mostly caused by long line fishing. wildlife; seabird; albatross; southern; ocean; bird; nature; Diomedea epomophora; antarctica; antarctic; range; circumpolar; polar; great; flight; animals; icun; vulnerable Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the Royal Albatross» Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the Royal Albatross» Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the Royal Albatross» Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the Royal Albatross» Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, originally uploaded by blather. High resolution photograph of the Royal Albatross» Royal...
Blue Ice photo gets used by National Geographic Traveller
National Geographic Traveller's Intelligent Travel blog have just used my Blue Ice photo in an article about Antarctica's White Noise Scientists at the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean understand this concept, and have bottled the sounds of the Antarctic for the world to appreciate with "an acoustic live stream of the Antarctic underwater soundscape."
Suburban reflections – Amsterdam canal and apartment block
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Suburban reflections, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version » Canal and apartments near Heemstedestraat, Amsterdam. I spotted this while walking from the Greenpeace office in Amsterdam. My colleague, Brian, told me "go photograph Amsterdam, you always see it differently to me", but I don't think anyone was expecting that I'd find my photograph just the other side of the Amsterdam Centraal to Schiphol airport line from the office.
Tom Parker Fountain, Napier, New Zealand
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tom Park Fountain, Napier, New Zealand, originally uploaded by blather. Download the high resolution version » Tom Park Fountain, Napier, New Zealand. Napier is New Zealand's Art Deco town - completely rebuilt in 1931 after an earthquake. Tom Parker owned a men's outfitters shop in Hastings Street and was a colourful town character who made many gifts to worthy causes and to the city. On one of his regular visits to Britain he was impressed by a modern, illuminated fountain at Bournemouth. On returning to Napier he donated £1,000 for a similar fountain which was built on an area previously occupied by a children's playground.
ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, Australia
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, Australia,, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version » ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, Australia. Finished in 1934 after designs and art by C. Bruce Dellit and sculptor Rayner Hoff, it commemorates the Australian War dead of World War One. Many of the original sculptures didn't make it in the memorial, thanks to censure by the Catholic church, and its bishop, Michael Sheehan. 'The sculpture that caused the sensation, The Crucifixion of Civilisation, is pictured below. It is shocking. A naked figure on a cross, a young woman, sits atop a pyramid of broken soldiers, corpses, weapons, helmets, the debris of battle. The detail is hyper-real and brilliantly executed. Hoff described the symbolism of his central figure: "Adolescent Peace is depicted...