PHOTO OF THE DAY: Fireflies & star trails

Here’s another excellent photo via APOD, and it looks great as computer wallpaper!

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Explanation: Fix your digital camera to a tripod, start a long series of exposures, and you too can record star trails. The concentric arcs traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis often produce dreamlike scenes in otherwise familiar situations. Fall asleep, though, and the results might surprise you. Setting up on a summer night, photographer Mike Rosinski began his exposures, initially planning to capture about 45-55 minutes worth of star trails from his yard in Hartland, Michigan, USA. But he dozed, only to awaken some 3 hours later to find his camera had continued to run until the battery died. Composing the resulting images, the graceful concentric star trails were expected, along with light from a late rising Moon glinting on windows. Still, as he slept on the warm night a blizzard of yellow streaks flooded the scene, not left by fairies but fireflies.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Environmental photography contest produces remarkable images of Earth’s natural environments

You can see the winners, runner ups, and recommended entries at the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

Via PhotographyBLOG

WILDLIFE: Photographers discover pink hippopotamus in Kenya

Image via Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas

The young leucistic hippopotamus lacks much of the pigmentation that normal hippos have, which gives it a blotchy-pink appearance. The photographers have a blog post about their discovery at the Burrard-Lucas Blog. More about this discovery can also be found at the Telegraph.co.uk. You can see more images of odd-colored animals and plants here.

CAN YOU SEE ME? | ANIMAL CAMOUFLAGE

Via Cj Roberts on Flickr

See more animal camouflage here on The Conservation Report.


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