10 of the best: nature photographs.

Norway

I can't just pick a few to show from this slide show - the whole collection of 19 photos is great to me.

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2013/sep/20/andes-by-bus-argentina-chile#/?picture=417768042&index=0

What beauty our world has to offer.

Also, that Norwegian bridge is really something.

Here in the western U.S. I'm watching, via the San Francisco Chronicle, the very gradual and mistake fraught rebuilding of what I consider 1/2 of the San Francisco bay bridge, but is being treated as a whole new bridge (more modern aesthetics, etc., than on the other half) from an island in the bay to Oakland. Hint: it won't be one of my 'best nature photographs' any time soon (maybe if they modify the light poles some day).

The Golden Gate Bridge, from SF across another part of the bay, is, though, part of a zillion such photographs:

The Faroarna Islands

Wonderful pictures to wake up to on a grezy and rainy day.

Antares Nebulae

Makes you feel small don't it?

One more from this great collection
http://gizmodo.com/11-of-the-best-damn-astronomy-photos-youll-see-this-ye-1349711714?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Lake Manyara, Tanzania

Badlands, South Dakota

From the GuardianWitness blog -
Head to the Cairngorms National Park and enjoy excellent food, local ales and malt whiskies in the Rowan Tree Country Hotel, three miles from Aviemore. Work off dinner and breakfast the next day at the Rothiemurchus estate: have a Segway adventure, try gorge walking, or go canoeing on Loch an Eilein, as the birch leaves fall and the rowan berries glow red. Or just put on your walking boots and trek into the hinterland. Enjoy the glorious views over the Cairngorms from Braeriach (1,296m), before the first snows of winter sweep in.
cairngorms.co.uk
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Photograph: Alamy

Ever been to the Badlands Vonny?