Swirl-Painting a Guitar

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Here are a couple others: one, & two.. And of course you can find many more in the sidebar at any of these pages.

Awesome

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Cat Colors & Patterns

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If you can't get it large enough to read, simply click on "Source" under the image.

World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map

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Pastel Mountains in Iceland

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Here's another one:

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Aurora From Orbit

This gorgeous view of the aurora (above) was taken from the International Space Station as it crossed over the southern Indian Ocean on September 17, 2011. The sped-up movie spans the time period from 12:22 to 12:45 PM ET.

While aurora are often seen near the poles, this aurora appeared at lower latitudes due to a geomagnetic storm – the insertion of energy into Earth's magnetic environment called the magnetosphere – caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun that erupted on September 14, 2011. The storm was a moderate one, rated with what's called a KP index of 6 on a scale that goes from 0 to 9, caused by just a glancing blow from the CME.

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A Tree From The Oregon Trail

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Awesome Aurora Captured Over Norway

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Can Dogs See Colors?

by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner at Psychology Today Dot Com



Probably one of the most frequently asked questions about dog's vision is whether dogs see colors. The simple answer-namely that dogs are colorblind-has been misinterpreted by people as meaning that dogs see no color, but only shades of gray. This is wrong. Dogs do see colors, but the colors that they see are neither as rich nor as many as those seen by humans.

The eyes of both people and dogs contain special light catching cells called cones that respond to color. Dogs have fewer cones than humans which suggests that their color vision won't be as rich or intense as ours. However, the trick to seeing color is not just having cones, but having several different types of cones, each tuned to different wavelengths of light. Human beings have three different kinds of cones and the combined activity of these gives humans their full range of color vision.

The most common types of human colorblindness come about because the person is missing one of the three kinds of cones. With only two cones, the individual can still see colors, but many fewer than someone with normal color vision. This is the situation with dogs who also have only two kinds of cones.

Jay Neitz at the University of California, Santa Barbara, tested the color vision of dogs. For many test trials, dogs were shown... Click here to continue on to the rest of the article..

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Another Amazing Sunset Image

This one is a must-enlarge.

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Spiral

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Red

I can't find a bigger one..

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Sometimes it's not about reality as much as it is about flat-out imagery. What a great image.

But not only is it an incredible image, it's also the object image in a great photoshop tutorial by FaraZahar. Which is also featured on this Best Photoshop Tutorials for Newbies list...

...and probably a bunch more.

The point is it's a great image. And it's been sent in to a reverse-image search site (tineye dot com) at least 500-600 times. It's the only site I know of to give you the best chance at finding the true source of any image.

One of these days, I'll succeed. LOL


Eventually, ALL images posted here at One For The Road will be HD, and as big as possible.