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Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object near the horizon. Here stars, startrails and the sun, filmed in timelapse photography from two major observatories in Chile, display immense distortion above inversion layers in the outskirts of the Atacama desert, Chile. The moon scene is filmed near Boston at the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The mirage is an optical phenomenon in which light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere and produce distorted or multiple images of the object.

I'm with @eric3579... that video was waaaaay better than the music.

Excellent staging, photography and some *quality stuntwork too.

Amazing photography, but....

Ok, the jumping and the eyesight is impressive, but mapping the world in 3 dimensions... I would have said almost any animal is capable of that, otherwise, they would spend their time bumping into things.

As for learning and problem solving, the video doesn't really give any indication as to how we know that. Sneaking up on your prey and avoiding the potentially dangerous parts of it is something almost all predators do. It hardly qualifies as "genius".

I'm not saying the spider isn't clever (well, clever for something with a brain the size of a pinhead), but this doesn't really give a good example of that.

Great photography. Remember there's a second diver floating out in the dark or following the main guy on camera.

Part and parcel to cave diving is controlling any dust/sand you kick up (basically: don't). The water is so clear, they've kicked up nothing. That's pretty pro.

*quality photography!

I know exactly what he's talking about when he mentioned stitching together lots of photographs at different focal lengths. I've done this type of macro photography in the past, albeit on a much smaller scale. I immediately noticed that I would need much more controlled parameters than I could get from a handheld still camera and a moving object in nature. I used multiple focal lengths but it became instantly apparent that I needed many more in between. It's really cool to see this kind of thing. And holy shit I bet that plotter costs as much as a house.

Holy cow, I didn't know they were remaking Death Note in America... Cripes, I'm scared they're going to totally ruin that masterpiece, but I need to see it anyway. Principal photography begins in June this year.

Despite who Quentin had in mind, if Uma had, let's say, been hit by a commuter train before principal photography and Lucy Liu had replaced her, the films would've been vastly better.

Yes...and yes. The Mary story was story after story of faith healings and visions portrayed as if they were certainly real, with no science involved and no other explanations given. I had skipped that story because I don't care about religion, but went back just now and read most of it. Yuck.

The magazine is not the same. This months issue's articles....
1)the photo ARK
2) The crossing-is death an event or more of a progression
3)where death doesn't mean goodbye
4)urban parks, when you're there, civilization can feel very far away
5)Ghost Lands-The Out Of Eden Walk passes through nations haunted by their history: Armenia and Turkey
Page 4 is a big "Why I went looking for spiritual answers" 'article' hyping "Story of God" with Morgan Freeman, which has other full page ads in the same issue.
So every story has some religious connotation except the 'urban park' story, which may or may not, I haven't read it yet.
It does still have some good photography, but also a lot of bland and boring photography, and that ratio is moving in the wrong direction.
I think I won't be renewing. I'll get Popular Science or Scientific American again instead.

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Just when you thought your interests in stop-motion photography and renovation would never cross paths.

There are a few minor factual errors and some oversimplifications, but in general this is a pretty good rundown of the history of photography in 5 minutes.

Saddest part is my girlfriend was filming the hawk but didn't see the owls stalking it, so when they flew out she panicked and gave the world ZERO wildlife photography. Now all I have is a cool story. Stupid girlfriend. Still screwing me over years later. Ain't that the truth though?

OMG, that slab at 2:00...... jesus!!!!

*stunning photography

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That's some stunning aerial photography *promote

Extraordinary photography. Great sift!