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[gbarry]

I'm a sucker for news organizations that do high rez image galleries around topics. Particularly The Atlantic Monthly's In Focus feature:

http://www.theatlant...billion/100176/

Or Boston.com's The Big Picture. Here they profile the large hadron collider construction.

[jbenson2]

The photos in the Atlantic Monthly are breathtaking.

[nova47]

I'm a sucker for news organizations that do high rez image galleries around topics. Particularly The Atlantic Monthly's In Focus feature:

http://www.theatlant...billion/100176/

Or Boston.com's The Big Picture. Here they profile the large hadron collider construction.

Love hi rez photo essays. Both of those sites are on my toolbar!

[nova47]

Geoff,

Check out this HD time lapse from the International Space Station. Beautiful !!



In order of appearance:

1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night

[gbarry]

This is incredible. I had no idea the auroras were so viewable from space.

Also thunderstorms are awesome, like camera flashes in a crowd. The sub pop music is a nice touch. +1 for vimeo too

[gbarry]

I'm kind of surprised a horror movie hasn't been filmed here. An old abandoned theme park called "Wonderland" surround by corn fields. "In Focus" here:

http://www.theatlant...derland/100207/

[jefito]

We still get the monthly Atlantic print magazine, but the fun's gone since they stopped running the Cox & Rathvon cryptic crosswords...

[gbarry]

Love Atlantic Monthly, though I'm only a convert as of 4-5 years ago--I don't recall them in any issues that far back.

[Metrodon]

The UK newspaper the Guardian has a great iPad app called Eyewitness if you like this kind of thing...

[jefito]

I think that the Atlantic dropped them from the magazine maybe three years or so ago, but had them on the web site for a couple more years after that. Now I pick them up from the Wall St Journal web site -- a new one every month, I think.

[nova47]

The Vesta asteroid from the Dawn spacecraft

[gbarry]

The Vesta asteroid from the Dawn spacecraft

Unreal. I want to take these videos, and create a new "real" version of Asteroids. There has to be bored programmer out there somewhere with way too much time on their hands.

[gbarry]

Not very high res, but "fishing under the ice". Resides in the "wish I'd thought of this" category. Finland.

[Owyn]

Love the YouTube counters. 304 Views. 10,764 Likes.

[jefito]

And people complain about Evernote note counts...

[nova47]

Yosemite HD

wow

[jbenson2]

Not very high res, but "fishing under the ice". Resides in the "wish I'd thought of this" category. Finland.

Pretty neat.
The trick is revealed when you watch the directions of the bubbles.

Here is an actual under-ice fishing video (for mussels). Guaranteed you won't ever catch me doing this.
http://www.youtube.c...p?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA

[gbarry]

Atlantic did something new with In Focus this week. User requested shots, regardless of era. http://www.theatlant...cewalks/100234/



Only in St. Paul.

[jefito]

I think that they do something like this in Quebec as well, coming down from the Chateau Frontenac. Scary!!

[jbenson2]

Only in St. Paul.

A couple nights ago, the local news station in Minneapolis, Minnesota had a 3 minute segment interview with the medical and ambulance crews stationed along the ice run.