These incredible images by Franz Schumacher look like the last thing you would see before ending up in Oz.

Sean R. Heavey’s amazing storm photography will make you want to run for cover.

The auroras of Iceland beautifully captured by Hörður Finnbogason

Amazing auroras captured by photographer Roy Samuelsen

Ancient ruins as seen from space. Click on the images to see which ruins are pictured above and check out this gallery for more.

Standing in awe. Photos from Norseman1968’s photostream.

New work by the very talented Marc Adamus

Auroras don’t get much more awe-inspiring than the ones captured by Norseman1968.

Aerial views of rice fields in Indonesia (Makassar, Sulawesi) from peace-on-earth.org

This landscape photography by Horst Fischer is a great reminder of what an amazing planet this is. Happy Earth Day!

Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest photo series by Florian Breuer

Photographer Régis Matthey captures things that glow in the dark.

Work by Mary Iverson

From the artist statement:

Mary’s prints and paintings resonate with so many other things that I am looking at online: data visualizations and information graphics, Modernist painting, and resurgences of photo-realistic and illustrative painting as well. I am particularly struck by the relationships in these images between the natural and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, and the balance of thought and feeling. This balance is reminiscent of my own feelings about the Internet and the “wildness” of its networks. It seems perfectly appropriate that I would first see these images on the web instead of in the more controlled space of a gallery.

Iverson’s shipping containers can be seen as metonymic stand-ins for a whole system of distribution for objects that we deal with every day. These paintings, until recently, left us with little clue of what they might contain. They are like scientific conceptual “black-boxes” which are put into place to sidestep our actual material understanding. We might see these containers on a dock or train and have only a vague sense of what they may contain or how those materials might be used. This parallels directly with the distribution of data on the net. The analog and digital worlds of things echo each other.

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Aerial views of Siberia - Khabarovsk Krai by peace-on-earth 

Dramatic doesn’t even begin to describe the skies in these photos by George Christakis.