Nearby Nature GigaBlitz finalists, 06/12
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"The heaviest traffic was recorded in Vienna regions, particularly on the A23 (south-east trunk road) with an average traffic of 120 000 vehicles a day". But under this crazy motorway junction of A23 exists a rest of nature, in former times a member of the Danube river. While taking the gigapan I could hardly hear the...
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My name is Josep Giribet and I am a multimedia artist. The image shows our vegetable garden at my mother's home, located in Anglesola, a small medieval village deep in the Catalan mainland, 80 miles from Barcelona. I have chosen this location as it is quite special for me and my family, as all buildings were built by m...
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This picture was taken at a pond near Hausen am Albis and Rifferswil in Switzerland. The pond lays near the famous "Seleger Moor". It'a a place I've often been in my youth because I grew up at Hausen am Albis. Many years ago, at this place, moss has been taken out as fuel. Mosses are protected by law in Switzerland. Th...
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This bike path connects the town of West Glacier with the headquarters and housing area of Glacier National Park. It winds through old growth forest that includes these big wookpecker pocked cedar trees and a shady forest floor.
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The Botanical Garden of Biology Institute is located at the heart of The National University of Mexico. This extraordinary place is full of life and forms, sounds and smells, textures and sensations that reveals the Mexican biodiversity, all over the cracks, rocks, wood and plants themselves are covered by life. The Bo...
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Animal, vegetable or mineral? Taking a walk along a sandy beach, one might assume that what one is stepping on is mineral. Until one examines the shingle underfoot, then, does one realize that it comprises mostly parts of animals ! Singapore island is only 40km wide, so the nearest sea coast is at most 20min drive f...
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The apparent levee along the shoreline of Molly Pond is vegetative, not geomorphic. Leatherleaf grows tall at the edge of the floating peat mat which has been encroaching into this kettle pond for thousands of years. The floating mat is about two meters thick in the foreground and supported my weight well, but I had t...
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in the neighborhood of "Rio Acima", at Mogi das Cruzes, there are several houses with small gardens and plantations. This, for example, is a crop of watercress, cared for by a friendly family of farmers who were happy to participate in the Gigablitz Panorama contest. Panorama made of 336 photos - Canon XSi w...
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