Cheetahs Up Close 🐆
It’s a common misconception that #cheetahs only hunt using a short, fast sprint. Sometimes they go for a much longer run to close the gap to their prey, saving the full burst for the end.
Video by Bertie Gregory [FB]
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania 🇹🇿
#nature #wildlife #drone
"Surge", 2024.
Acrylic Polymer Emulsion on Masonite, 36" × 28".
Christopher Walker (Canadian Artist, born 1964)
christopherwalkerart.ca
Private Collection
#Art #painting #illustration #sea #dogs
Birth of Venus Pendant - Circa 1880.
Materials: Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, Agate.
The Albion Art Jewellery Institute, Tokyo.
#jewelry #gems #craftsmanship
T800 skull DVD player 💀💿
The Terminator 3 T-800 Endoskeleton Skull DVD Player is a highly rare, limited-edition promotional collectible originally released in Japan around 2002–2003 to promote Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
#movies #technology #sci-fi #video
A Woman and Skeleton vanity, France (Paris), circa 1520.
Ivory, H. 28 cm; L. 9.1cm; D. 7.9 cm.
Anonymous artist
Berlin National Museum
#art #sculpture #ivory #antique
"The Ones You Feed", 2025.
Oil on Canvas, 120 × 100 cm.
Angelika Weinekötter (German Artist, born 1962)
angelikaweinekoetter.com
@angelikaweinekoetterart [IG]
Private Collection
'The Big Wind', created by Hungarian Engineers using an old T-34 and two MiG-21 Jet Engines.
It was abled to put out oil fire with a single blow. The photo was taken in Kuwait, 1991.
#engineering #technology #firefighters #oldtimes #war #neveragain
Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Ipanema beach, summer of 1978 🇧🇷
By Canadian photographer Blake W. Smith.
#summer #sun #sea #oldtimes
People waiting in line to cast their vote at a polling station in Harlem, New York City, circa 1925
#vote #democracy #oldtimes #streetphotography
If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings.
#DefyDogma
I leave dead plant debris for the bugs. Also, the little ghostly pale baby Praying Mantis hang out in the debris & i love/protect my Mantis community.
Close-up of a deep magenta azalea in bloom.
Close-up of magenta strawberry blossoms in bloom.
Good #MagentaMonday beeps. Here's some more bee chow for now from last week. I was busy in my new-to-me community garden plot this weekend beginning recovery from the quack grass that has overrun it.
But it'll be worth the work! #flowers
Miss Tilly her movie star look!🤩😊
A sea of little blue flowers with celery, babbington leeks and sorrel behind
It's that time of year when the forget-me-nots and daisies take over the veg garden 😍🌱
Good morning friends!
Thank you. You may follow for more beautiful pictures, if you want.
Have a nice day.
I think yes
Thank you for the correction. 🙏🏻
Nice shot! Beautiful colors! 🤩
A close-up photo showing a jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus) gripping a green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata).
🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴
Photography by Vietnamese macro and nature photograph:
Nguyễn Trọng Quyết [FB]
quyet_macro [IG]
#insect #macro #fly #spider #nature #metallic #colors
💛 The amazing golden color of these scarab beetles (Chrysina resplendens).
It is not a result of pigmentation or actual metal, but ≈70 microscropic chitin layers of decreasing thickness that reflect light to produce a metallic effect. ✨️
Video by insecthaus_adi [IG]
#beetles #insects #nature #gold
"Monkeys as Judges of Art", 1889.
Gabriel von Max (Austrian, 1840 – 1915).
A Romanticism/Symbolism style painter also known for his interest in Darwinism and his large collection of anthropological artifacts
The Neue Pinakothek Museum, Munich, Germany
#Art #painting #illustration #judges
Betty Boop, the popular #cartoon character by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, was inspired by a real-life African American #jazz singer from Harlem named Esther Jones.
During her career, she was mostly known locally, but her legendary way of singing does live on in the iconic Betty Boop character
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe (1992)
#games #geography #detective #computer #oldtimes
Art Deco figural mantel clock known as "Powder Puff Girl," sculpted by Ferdinand Preiss around 1925.
Ferdinand Preiss (1882–1943) was a prominent German sculptor recognized for his work during the Art Deco period.
#art #sculpture #clock #antique
"Fighting Mom," 2025
Oil on canvas
Alex de Marcos (Spanish, b.1985)
@alex.demarcos [IG]
Private Collection
#art #painting #illustration #mom
A radiologist checks a miner's stomach for swallowed diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, 1954.
#diamonds #mines #hardwork #oldtimes
West 44th Street in New York City , 1964.
Cinema theater showing "The Insect Woman" (1963), Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura.
#street #streetphotography #movies #cinema #oldtimes
