Nature
Milkyway Over Mangroves. Top Story - April 2021. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Milkyway Over Mangroves by Arati Kumar-Rao: Story Behind the Photograph: Milkyway Over Mangroves Night falls like a black hood over the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans. Straddling the border between Bangladesh and India, this beautiful forest (which is likely where it gets its name from — Sundar, meaning beautiful, ban, meaning forest) is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, saltwater crocodiles, all manner of snakes, crustaceans, river sharks, and a few million crab-catchers, fishers, and honey hunters.
By Arati Kumar-Rao5 years ago in Earth
Majestic Manta. Top Story - April 2021. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Majestic Manta by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Majestic Manta I’ve spent hundreds of hours filming and photographing in our oceans, and every once in a while something truly unexpected happens. In 2019, I was filming whale sharks near Isla Mujeres Mexico for National Geographic’s first ever live VR shark experience. In this particular area, hundreds of millions of eggs from the fish known as the Little Tunny are released into the food chain, attracting whale sharks throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. This spawning alone is responsible for the world’s largest whale shark aggregation which was scientifically discovered only a decade before in 2009.
By Brian Moghari5 years ago in Earth
Thin Blue Line. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Thin Blue Line by Brian Moghari: Story Behind the Photograph: Thin Blue Line The ocean covers around 70 percent of our planet’s surface and holds over 96 percent of the Earth’s water. It is our planet’s largest ecosystem driving our weather, regulating temperature, and ultimately supporting all living organisms, but we know very little about this underwater world. More than eighty percent of this vast environment has yet to be explored by man. When I look out to the ocean and see where mountains, forests and mangroves collide with this expansive body of water it is easy to think there’s nothing more but water beyond this intersection; but beneath the surface begins a whole new world full of life just out of sight.
By Brian Moghari5 years ago in Earth
Isle of the Wolf. Top Story - April 2021. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for Isle of the Wolf by April Bencze: Story Behind the Photograph: Isle of the Wolf I met a wolf who held oceans of peace inside of them. This doesn’t mean their teeth aren’t capable of tearing flesh. It means we creatures who live on this earth cannot be measured by such scales as good and evil. These binaries cannot begin to house the complexities and paradoxes that exist within each one of us.
By April Bencze5 years ago in Earth
The Lone Sockeye. Created with: Untamed Photographer.
View print sizes for The Lone Sockeye by April Bencze: Story Behind the Photograph: The Lone Sockeye “Salmon shield us from fear of death by showing us how to give of ourselves for things greater than ourselves.” - David James Duncan, My Story As Told By Water
By April Bencze5 years ago in Earth
Why Should You Hire Commercial Landscape Contractors?
Commercial landscaping is a challenging job and requires a particular set of skills. There are a wide variety of services involved in commercial landscaping. To ensure excellent aesthetics and perfection, it is advised that you hire commercial landscape contractors. They will help you plan, design, and implement all the activities and reduce costs related to the projects. Commercial landscape contractors are also experts at ensuring sustainable construction. You should hire professional landscape contractors to create a captivating working environment. They know what needs to be done, so your workplace looks its best. Let's look at the benefits of hiring a landscape contractor.
By David Parkinson5 years ago in Earth
See Ya Later Alligator
My family and I are very outdoorsy. We live in a rural part of Georgia, in the deep south of the US. We raise chickens, we develop our land ourselves, we grow some of our own food, but most importantly we camp, fish and go on long boat rides on our favorite waterway, the mighty Flint River.
By Abigail Adams -The Mad Cow Mob Boss5 years ago in Earth
Ingesting
You, for whatever reason, suddenly looked less than the horizon to me. On a normal night, the lack of jagged, saw-toothed pine roping across my eye’s limit was jarring. For months, I instead saw a depressing horizon as a flat line––a charcoal blue, an endless territory, a subject matter that did not interest me in the least. It was a horizon that swallowed the sun unilaterally, equidistantly, identically every late evening. And that collection of dying orange would leave me all the same, every time, every day, every repeating instance that I was not quite ready for it to leave me.
By Calvin Spears5 years ago in Earth
Late Afternoons
She leaves the house at two thirty, as she does every weekday. It’s a sunny spring day with barely any breeze off the ocean, ideal fishing weather. Roy left at sunrise and will not dock his cuddy until just before the sun dips back into the sea, as satisfied with his day’s catch as the sun will be with the yellow and orange brushstrokes it leaves lingering in the sky, silhouetting grey clouds as darkness settles. She has plenty of time before meeting him in the harbour.
By L J Purves5 years ago in Earth
Nature By The Rail Trail
As a very young girl, raised right beside the trails. I was captivated by the whistle of the train. Never having to look at a clock or watch, the whistle blew on the hour. It was wonderful to know when your meals were ready and what time you had to be indoors.
By Cathy Deslippe5 years ago in Earth
