I love artistic photography, and there are lots of great sites on the web to help me indulge my passion. This is a site that I found through Digg via Chris Garrett’s DSLR Blog.

Great Photo Archive

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) spacecraft Rosetta is on a mission to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but along the way, it will visit other astronomical bodies, such as Mars.

OSIRIS images of Mars

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An ISS Astronaut took a picture of the edge of Earth’s atmosphere last summer, in which one can see the beautiful transition from the outermost gaseous layer to the vacuum of space.

Observation of the Top of the Earth’s Atmosphere Image

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It looks like crew over at healthygulf.org and other like-minded souls have managed to persuade Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, and Alabama Governor Bob Riley to oppose open-loop process natural gas facilities proposed by Shell. Read the article, Gulf Victory, and sign the petitions if the spirit moves you.

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Bees are disappearing again at alarming rates, and not necessarily due to mites. One version of the story can be found at Earthfiles where they explain the disconcerting fall-offs in bee populations in the US and Europe, and how certain countries like France and Spain have seemed to avoid the fall-offs by restricting the use of certain pesticides.

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I saw this today on CNN. It’s always great to hear a positive story about an animal that has survived the human onslaught and even begun to thrive again. I hope NYC take a little pride in this and helps them out a bit.

Beavers Return to New York City

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This is my first plunge into the ocean that is the blogosphere. It was pretty easy to install wordpress on my website, although I initially used the version of wordpress provided by 1and1.com. The problem with that was the very limited number of themes one could use, crimping my very raison d’etre, the use of digital images.

I found a nice theme to use, and then personalized it by adding a picture taken while on a Cessna 172 trip to Wolf Run State Park in southeastern Ohio. The image of the leaf was taken at Glen Helen Ecology Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio which is southwest of Columbus, Ohio.

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