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“ Who’s Who”   by Brad Wilson

These owls may wear the same game face, but when it comes to personality, they’re as different as day and night.    

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It’s not easy to get owls to mug for the camera. Even in captivity the birds remain aloof, unruffled by the flash and unmoved by attempts to bribe them. Photographer Brad Wilson learned that lesson firsthand after trying to win over owls from the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis and The Wildlife Center near Española, New Mexico. He spent hours with each bird, trying to capture its direct gaze. “It’s hard to get animals to look at you like humans do,” he says. “That shot became my holy grail.”

Wilson is an expert at point-blank portraits. His series “Affinity” features 65 species, including a white rhino, a white tiger, an Arctic fox, and an Egyptian Vulture. But owls were the most compelling and challenging subjects, he says. It takes years of building mutual trust before an owl will accept physical contact from a single person, says Wilson, and “owls don’t extend that privilege to other humans.”

Source: audubon

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A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.

500 Days of Summer (2009), Dir. Marc Webb (via wnq-movies)

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“Le chef ou prince des mauvais esprits auquel les Formosans sacrifient” Book: George Psalmanaazaar. “Description de l’Isle Formosa en Asie.“Amsterdam : R. & G. Wetstein, 1712. “A fierce and frightening Formosan evil spirit, from an early travel/guide book to the island and its inhabitants.”

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Mitochondrion - Archaeaeon

art by Jeremy Hannigan

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Vall de Nuria.

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DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883)

Illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, detail 1866 Engraving Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

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Herbig-Haro 24

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