From the wildlife photographer of the year awards, 2014. Herfried Marek, Austria: Golden birch. I was browsing the book in Waterstones today, and came across this, and was struck. It is brilliant. Shades of Rice terraces in Yunnan in the way that what's actually a photograph looks like a painting. I think it is far better than the winner; the judges wimped out and went for a boring picture of lions.
My number two is some fish and an anenome:
As you can tell, I like patterns. Number three I think I'd give to the sand dune.
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Puffer fish are notorious. Considerable delicacy in Japan (a taste adopted by some non-Japanese Foodies), they come with a side of risk: some puffer fish have the potent lethal toxins tetrodotoxin and/or saxitoxin, neurotoxins more than 1000 times the lethal potency of cyanide:
A not at all exhaustive collection of cool bizarro aquariums.
I'm a big fish eater. In general, given a choice about what to eat, I'm
usually happiest when I get to eat a nice fish. Even now that I've started eating
beef again, most of the time, I'd rather eat a nice piece of wild salmon
than pretty much anything made of beef.
A fascinating new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the impact of human fishing may be reducing the fitness of fish populations overall.
I assume 'weasel riding woodpecker' has a lock on the award for 2015.
Pretty sure this guy is guilty of multiple voting in the peoples choice award.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/wpy/gallery/2014/images/new-special-award…