All things bright & beautiful ♥

thekhooll:

Design-Conscious Tree House

Elevating the simple treehouse into a world-class destination for design-conscious travelers. Treehotel, located in Harads about 60 km south of the Arctic Circle. 

sosuperawesome:

10 Awe-Inspiring Photos of Lightning

What better way is there to show both the beauty and power of nature than with these incredibly electrifying images of lightning? While sometimes it just takes being at the right place at the right time, like for amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik and his photo of a brightly illuminated Eiffel Tower, for others, like Dan Ransom, it requires carefully assembling a composite image or “stacking” multiple photos together to showcase a wild electrical storm (like the one Ransom stunningly captured at the Grand Canyon). Whether these magnificent shots were the result of luck, hard work or patience, they all give us a deeper appreciation for a part of nature we rarely get to see.

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expose-the-light:

Swirling Liquids by Janet Waters

ianbrooks:

Lasercut Wooden Topography by Below the Boat

Unless you have a futuristic, hi-tech submersible or live in a pineapple under the sea, you’ll never know the sweeping, majestic beauty of underwater mountains thta overlook deep, abyssmal trenches. The crew over at Below the Boat use lasercut birch wood to construct these bathymetric charts, assembling the entire map one intricately detailed layer at a time. Whether you’re an admirer of the Great Lakes or a Florida Keys fanboy, you can purchase your favorite sculpted body of water over at their website: belowtheboat

(via: Gessato / Colossal)

unknowneditors:

• Mad World 3
• Mad World 2
• Floral Funeral 2
• Before I Die by Peihang Huang

Inspired by culture and identity, Peihang Huang’s paintings convey dreaminess and the feeling of being swept away by the tides of life, whether it be through love, beauty or death. 

View more of Peihang’s captivating work on her website or flickr.

mydarkenedeyes:

Matthias Haker - A Bed of Moss (2012)

zitterberg:

Taiwanese photographer and artist, Peggy Wu, creates an enchanting spectacle in her roughly translated as Schools of Fish Floating in the Air (浮在空中的魚群). Here our world has become interwoven with the rich and bright colours of the sea forging a realm where beauty and the fantastical collide with the mundane and the ordinary, when dreams slip through reality.

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sosuperawesome:

razorshapes:

Gregory Colbert - The Photographs

The photographic artworks of Gregory Colbert explore the poetic sensibilities of animals in their natural habitat as they interact with human beings. No longer shown as merely a member of the family of man, humans are seen as a member of the family of animals. None of the images have been digitally collaged.

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gregorycolbert:

As I navigate the Arctic seas I am reminded that the curiosity for the sublime can stretch all the way from the immensity of an iceberg to the miniature wonders of an anteater.

—Gregory Colbert

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