MetaFilter posts tagged with Environment and photography

Manufactured Landscapes

blue shadows — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:15:39 -0800

Manufactured Landscapes: Photographer Edward Burtynsky captures haunting and beautiful images of landscapes devasted by industy and by waste. He has won numerous awards including the TED prize. I know Edward Burtynksy has been mentioned here before, but I could find only one single link FPP from several years ago. I love his work and thought he was worthy of more coverage.

Expeditions to the Polar Regions

netbros — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:49 -0800

The Polar Discovery team has documented science in action from pole to pole during the historic 2007-2009 International Polar Year, and covered five scientific expeditions. The science projects explored a range of topics from climate change and glaciers, to Earth’s geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and technology at the icy ends of the earth. Through photo essays and other multimedia, they explain how scientists collected data and what they discovered about the rapidly changing polar regions. From the awesome folks at WHOI.

Surface Tension

netbros — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:56 -0800

Ice — Nick Cobbing features stunning photographs of the Greenland Ice Melt and a stormy voyage to Greenland on an old sailing ship. Cobbing also features stories in photographs from Tibet, Kenya and elsewhere.

Pictures of a changing planet

homunculus — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:44:20 -0800

Up in the Air. The aerial photography of Alex MacLean.

The Solar Connection

digaman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:01:23 -0800

Rethinking Earthrise. On the 40th anniversary of the NASA's Apollo 8 mission [caution: weird JFK animation], which answered Stewart Brand's epochal, LSD-inspired question "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?" with an unforgettable image of a seemingly fragile and isolated blue planet, Nature editor Oliver Morton -- author of a new book on photosynthesis called Eating the Sun -- disputes the notion that the Earth is fragile and isolated. "The fragility is an illusion," he writes. "The planet Earth is a remarkably robust thing, and this strength flows from its ancient and intimate connection to the cosmos beyond. To see the photo this way does not undermine its environmental relevance -- but it does recast it."

Elemental Art

homunculus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:45:07 -0800

Elemental ‘Earth Art’: 15 Epic Land Formations. 15 Epic Water and Ice Formations and Phenomena. 12 Elemental Fire and Light Formations and Phenomena: Flares, Lightning, Smoke and Meteors. 10 Breathtaking Natural Cloud and Color Formations.

Expeditions

netbros — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:14:41 -0800

One World Journeys produces exciting and educational photo-documentary expeditions that connect online viewers to unique wilderness areas around the world. Travel to the remote mountain forests of the former Soviet Georgia, track jaguars in Mexico, dive on pristine coral reefs, swim with wild salmon and wildlife of British Columbia and step into the heat of the Sonoran Desert.

Museum of Nature

homunculus — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:30:20 -0800

The Museum of Nature by Ilkka Halso. [Via Ectoplasmosis!]

Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate

homunculus — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:10:24 -0800

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate. Featuring the work of Edward Burtynsky (previously), John Ganis, Peter Goin, Emmet Gowin, David T. Hanson, Jonathan Long, David Maisel (previously), David McMillan (previously), Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison (previously), John Pfahl, and Mark Ruwedel. Via wood s lot.

Industrial Scars

homunculus — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:10:07 -0800

Industrial Scars. Photography by J. Henry Fair. [Via The Underwire.]

Environmental Visions, Present and Future

jrb223 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:19:35 -0800

Mattingly Global, by Mary Mattingly, and Greetings From the Salton Sea, by Kim Stringfellow -- two web projects featured in the International Center of Photography's Ecotopia exhibit.

Back to Eden

alms — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:02:59 -0800

When the Glen Canyon Dam was completed, it took 18 years for the waters of the Colorado River to flood 186 miles of the most beautiful canyonlands in the world. David Brower called it America's "most regretted environmental mistake." But now Glen Canyon is coming back.

Mountaintop Removal Mining - High Resolution

grefo — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:29:02 -0800

Mountaintop Removal Mining. Now in High Resolution. Some amazing pictures of this mining process.

ShipBreaking

vacapinta — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:09:50 -0800

ShipBreaking The photographer Edward Burtynsky captures some dramatic images of ShipBreaking. The Perils of this industry were first highlighted in a Pulitzer prize winning series of articles by the the Baltimore Sun. Today, these ship graveyards still pose serious environmental issues as highlighted by this shipbreaking weblog maintained by Greenpeace.

ecological art

taz — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:45:40 -0800

Ecological art takes many forms, fascinating, beautiful, provocative, ephemeral, live, active, and even bloggy. See greenmuseum.org's featured artists and visit the Getty's Ecological Art Gallery (see also Art and the Earth, six photo essays).

faithnomore — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:12:06 -0800

Goodbye Galen and Barbara. World-renowned wilderness photographer and writer Galen Rowell, and his wife and business partner Barbara Cushman Rowell, a photographer and writer in her own right, died early Sunday morning in an airplane crash outside of Bishop, Calif.