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Beautiful and exotic jellyfish in the photographer's lens (1)

Beautiful and exotic jellyfish in the photographer’s lens

Jellyfish, an important large-scale marine plankton. Jellyfish lifespan is very short, an average of only a few months of life. Jellyfish are invertebrates, are coelenterate. The world’s oceans have more than two hundred kinds of jellyfish, they are distributed in the waters around the world.

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Jan 18th, 2012 | Filed under Wonderful World

Magic fireflies track photo by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu (1)

These photos were taken in the Maniwa and Okayama Prefecture Japan by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu, is the creative use of multiple low-speed shutter and exposure, to show the firefly mating scene after the storm in the rainy season of June and July. Light painting in photography is not a new thing, but these are drawn from natural light, is part of nature, Hiramatsu capture these fluorescent marks on the magic of fireflies and really charming scene photos.

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Jan 16th, 2012 | Filed under Wonderful World

Christie's will auction the world's most expensive book The Birds of America (1)

January 14, New York City auction house Christie’s exhibited "The Birds of America" ​​Collector’s Edition. The collection will be auctioned at the April 20 in New York.

"The Birds of America" ​​was created by the American ornithologist, naturalist and painter James Soar DuPont in 1827, the real picture of 400 species of birds living in the United States, and its paintings are exactly the same size with material object. The book has been regarded as the 19th century’s greatest and most influential works, the world’s remaining 119.

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Jan 16th, 2012 | Filed under Wonderful World

The splendor of the drinks under the microscope from Coke to wine (1)

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Department of Chemistry, University of Florida took a group of color photomicrographs to show the charm of a series of wine under the microscope. With a microscope, the photographer reveals the wine and vodka and other drinks, the stunning beauty of crystal sugar. This film uses a high-tech lenses, the maximum magnification 1000 times, the show each crystal are very different, like snowflakes.

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Jan 2nd, 2012 | Filed under Wonderful World

The world's most beautiful Aurora (1)

In the cold polar regions, people looked up the night sky, often can see colorful, varied, various shapes of Aurora. No exaggeration to say that the world simply can not find two exactly the same auroral form, from the scientific point of view, it will be according to their morphology into five Aurora. Countries can see the aurora are Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Russia, Canada, United States (Alaska), Argentina.

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Dec 28th, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World

Strange Canada ice hotel - Hotel de Glace (1)

Canada has a strange hotel, only opened in the winter, and spring comes it will disappear without a trace, its name is Hotel de Glace, because the entire hotel is piled up with ice and snow, including 36 rooms 80 beds, a spa, two bars and a church, and even the wine bar is carved by the ice.

Hotel de Glace is located in the outskirts of Quebec City, the end of November each year to build, opened on January 1 next year, March 31 closure. The construction of this hotel needs 15,000 tons and 500,000 tons of snow, ice, cost about $ 350,000, and built with more than a month by about 60 individuals.

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Dec 9th, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World

A Norwegian acrobat performing acrobatics in the edge of the cliff (1)

The average person, even if he/she is standing on the precipice of more than 300 meters high, the legs will not help trembling. But Norwegian acrobat Eskil Ronningsbakken is "to take life a joke", performing a variety of difficult acrobatics on the cliff edge. If the hand accidentally slipped, he would immediately fall into the cliff and died pieces.

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Dec 5th, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World

Different perspectives to show the beautiful world (1)

Photographer: twinsisterwendy

This world is not lack of beauty, but the lack of discovery. Many people are very love life, they used the camera to record bits and pieces of life and different aspects. In their lens, the world is so beautiful. Their lens take us into a different world.

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Dec 2nd, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World

Beautiful scenery of the lake under the ice shot by the Swiss photographer (1)

Ever, we observe lake ice are from top to bottom, so now there is a good chance for a perspective. This is a group of pictures taken by photographer looking up at the lake bottom up Ruishinalai lake ice formation process, take the opportunity to experience the life of the fish: in the icy water, the photographer spent more than an hour before shooting these precious photos.

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Nov 30th, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World

The world's largest Christmas tree in the water in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1)

November 26, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a giant Christmas tree appeared in Rodrigo – de Freitas Lake. This Christmas tree is 85 meters high, in the trees about 3.3 million light bulbs, is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records "World’s largest Christmas tree water." Christmas Eve every year, people will light the giant Christmas tree, this year is the 16th year.

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Nov 28th, 2011 | Filed under Wonderful World