P I X A R T S P A C E Y: 2013

Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Haunted Miranda Castle

The Haunted Miranda Castle, Belgium. This castle has stood empty since 1991. Although the municipality of Celles has offered to take it over, the family has refused, and the enormous building is now in a derelict state. Some claim this place is haunted and the clock on the tower moves a minute counterwise everyday!

Elephant Rock, Heimaey Iceland

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Lenticular Clouds @ Mt. Fuji Japan

Santa's Village

Beautiful Night in Landeck, Austria

Image Credit : Michael Adamek © Photography

Mount Ai-Petry at Night, Crimea, Ukraine

Image Credit : Denis Belitsky

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Rare rock formation in France, Massif de la Chartreuse

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Devil's Bridge

Rice Terraces Of Northeast Vietnam

Friday, November 8, 2013

Glacier

Photo by Camille Seaman

Evigheds Fjord, Eternity Glacier in West Greenland in September 2009. The name may be Eternity Glacier, but at the current rate of glacial retreat, thanks to climate change, it may need a new one.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Bench in Foggy Autumn Park

Photo Credit : Sergiy Trofimov

First Cold

First cold by Andrei Reinol

This morning showed me aspects of nature I have been waiting for a long time. Below zero temperature had turned the ground white and a stunning sunrise was waiting in the sky. I can't wish for more than that. Estonia.

Equipment: 5DM2, Canon 17-40 usm

Autumn in Yangmingshan National Park,Taiwan

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Autumn Tree Tunnel, Smugglers Notch State Park, Vermont, USA

Friday, October 18, 2013

Reyhan Bridge

Italian creator Dimitri Waltritsch says, "Constructing a gate to a residential complex might be considered a privilege for an architect, as it allows him to get in touch with the most intimate side of people’s everyday life. The entrance will warmly receive the people back home, and bless them before they leave for their daily activities in the world."

Crown

Polish designer Michal Nowak creates another stunning 3D visualisation with this design for the 'Crown House'. The razor sharp edges and beautiful execution make this a landscape design to marvel at.

The garden of Louis XIV

The garden of Louis XIV in Versailles, France is probably one of the world's most famous gardens. Built for Louis XIV and designed by Andre Le Notre it's a landscape design classic that ticks all the right boxes. Stunning and timeless.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Efuge du Gouter

The Efuge du Gouter is a self sufficient hut located on Europe's highest peak and is meant to house mountaineers after they reach the end of their climb. A helicopter was used to transport materials, wood was cut from nearby forests and the 69 pilings anchor the structure 12m into the mountain rock. Withstanding winds up to 300 km/h the building also as a melting unit to keep off the snow!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Milky Way, Greendale, New Zealand

Oakwood Trees, Louisiana

liaohe River Delta

Liaohe River Delta contains a very unique piece of landscape, the Red Beach. Not far from Panjin City, China lies a beach that during the summer months looks like any other beach. Beautiful waters and a bit of green sea weed.

Than as the seasons change so does the sea weed. The green sea weed that blankets the entire beach turns red like fire in the autumn. Hence the reason it is called the Red Beach. Most of the beach is a nature reserve; there is however a small portion open to tourists to observe the amazing color and birds that thrive near it.

A lovely scenery of Tuscany, Italy

Loen lake, Stryn, Western Norway

House in the Woods

Paris a view from Eiffel Tower

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Fire in the Woods, Switzerland

Doubs, Switzerland.

Image Credit : Jan Geerk

Nijenburg estate, Heiloo, Netherlands.

Nijenburg estate, Heiloo, Netherlands.

Photo Credit : Allard Schager

Camera NIKON D700
LensNikkor 24-70 mm f/2.8
Focal Length29mm
Shutter Speed1/13 secs
Aperturef/16
ISO/Film200

La Silla

What may look like a futuristic city out of a science fiction story, floating high above the clouds, is ESO’s longest-serving observatory, La Silla. This photograph was taken by astronomer Alan Fitzsimmons while standing near the ESO 3.6-metre telescope just after sunset. The Moon is located just outside the frame of this picture, bathing the observatory in an eerie light that is reflected off the clouds below.

The very faint band of glowing golden light just above the clouds still illuminated by the sunset is the zodiacal light. It is caused by sunlight diffused by dust particles between the Sun and the planets. This can only be seen just after sunset or just before sunrise, at particular times of year, from very good sites.

Several telescopes can be seen in this photograph. For example, the large angular structure at the end of the road is the New Technology Telescope (NTT). True to its name, when completed in 1989 the telescope included a number of revolutionary features including being the first to use full active optics as well as a revolutionary octagonal enclosure. Many of the NTT’s features went on to be incorporated into ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

The dome in the foreground, just to the right is the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope named in honour of the famous Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–83).

Alan submitted this photograph to the Your ESO Pictures Flickr group. The Flickr group is regularly reviewed and the best photos are selected to be featured in our popular Picture of the Week series, or in our gallery.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Railway, Switzerland

Photo from Milky way Scientist

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

London

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Colorado Tornado

Storm chaser Marko Korosec captured a series of breathtaking images of storms on a 26-day tour through America's Tornado Alley. The photographs were taken across Texas, Kansas and Colorado, each from around a kilometre away.

Grand Canyon Lightning

Rex Features/ Rolf Maeder

Photographer Rolf Maeder captured a series of low exposure shots of multiple lightning strikes on the Grand Canyon, when he was travelling in the US in August.

"On the Moran Point we noticed that far away a lightning storm was building up," Maeder explains. "That was much more than we expected, so we started setting up our tripods and started to take pictures."

WIRED Magazine UK