Saturniidae caterpillar

Via Melissa.

I’d never seen this photograph before. He was actually a good-looking young man.

Photographer Alice Smeets, assisted by Atiz Resistans, a group of Haitian artists, created a photographic version of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck using Haitian locations and motifs.

Dangerous Minds

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Photo taken from the oil and gas platform south of Barrow Island late yesterday as severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle approached. The cyclone is now a category four storm packing winds to 230 km/hr. A viewer sent this photo to Nine News Darwin.

Daily Mail:

The cyclone was carrying a massive wall of red sand.

Telegraph:

Seasoned wildlife photographers may have some unlikely competition in the form of a traffic camera when it comes to this year’s awards season.

CCTV captured this stunning image of a curious snowy owl in flight above a motorway in Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec.

The traffic camera, which belongs to the Transport Quebec, captured several images of the white and black-spotted bird on January 3.

Quebec transport minister Robert Poëti tweeted photos of the owl with the caption [translated]: “Magnificent snowy owl picked up by surveillance cameras of the road network on the A-40 in the West of MTL”.

In a Facebook post he added: “An impressive solo was captured in full flight by the surveillance cameras of the road network on highway 40 … in the west of the island of Montreal.

From Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons, a classic “thousand yard stare” photo of German landser cleaning his Mauser.

The College Street edge of the Yale Old Campus (where freshmen reside), with Sterling Library and the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium in the left background and Klein Biology Tower in the distance on the right. I can see the window of my freshman year bedroom on the ground floor of Welch Hall (just this side of Phelps Gate) quite clearly.

Annie Leibovitz, Elvis’s TV, Graceland, Memphis, 2011

Haven’t we all wanted to do that?