New Year Celebration, Thailand

Photograph by Mohd Ming

Park, United Kingdom

Photograph by Yi Hsien Lee

The River Tami near Pančevo, Vojvodina, Serbia

Photograph by Mihalj Peseki

Ipanema, Brazil

Photograph by Giovani Cordioli

Muckross Lake, Ireland

Photograph by Anthony Byrne

Astana, Kazakhstan

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig

Wildflowers, California

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart

In this picture from the early 1940s, travelers in California’s San Joaquin Valley gather owl’s clover and blue lupine in a field along Route 99. The photo originally accompanied a 1942 feature story on California’s abundant wildflowers.

Snowstorm, Finland

Photograph by George Mobley

Port Blair, Andaman Islands

Photograph by Aloke Runthala

Café, Amsterdam

Photograph by Marko Savic

Street Scene, Manhattan

Wrangler, Canadian Rockies

Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown

Meteor shower in Russia's Ural Mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=90Omh7_I8vI

A meteor streaked across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring more than 400 people.

Barreleye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barrel eye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orb like lenses.

Everything At Once

http://vimeo.com/53755617

Lenka's Everything at Once was featured in a Disney Studio All Access advertisement at the beginning of the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and The Muppets DVDs. The song was also used by Microsoft for Windows 8 advertisements in 2012. Also this song was featured in season 7 episode 14 of Grey's Anatomy.

Clownfish and Bubble-Tipped Anemone

Photograph by David Doubilet

Red Flower, Friendswood, Texas

Photograph by Gary Norbraten

Lake Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

Photograph by Dimitar Chungovski

Purple Leaf, Vancouver

Photograph by Juliet Heins

Chicago City Lights

Photograph by Jim Richardson