Earth: Blue Marble 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Credit: NASA/NOAA See More Elizabeth I when a Princess, Attributed to William Scrots, circa 1546 Head Turner, by Juan Lois Oyster Mushroom Art by Martin Amm Szent István Bazilika by Conor MacNeill Japanese Anemone by Achim Mittler Earth from Space: Namib Desert by the European Space Agency The Parting Cheer, by Henry Nelson O’Neil, 1861 Paradise Lost by Stephan Brauchli Baker Street, by Dragan of DB Photography Purple Whisper by Martin Amm Raison D’Être: Fabulous Macro Photography by Melanie Moraga The Piazzetta di San Marco, Venice, by Carlo Grubacs City Hall, San Francisco, by Jim Babson A Roemer Glass, Overturned Pewter Jug, Olives, and a Half-Peeled Lemon on Pewter Plates, by Pieter Claesz, 1635 Shortening Sail Off South Foreland, by Thomas Luny, 1818 Gizmo by Dragan Todorovic Fireworks by Didier Kobi Venation by Martin Amm Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, by John Singer Sargent, 1885-6 The Tower of London, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (engraved by W. Miller), 1831 Joan of Arc, Gilded Bronze, by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874 Hydrangeas by Hishida Shunso, 1902 Mountains by Andrew of Cuba Gallery Flowers, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1861 Vermillion by Sarah-fiona Helme Sensibility: Beautiful Photography by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic Walking in the Autumn Woods with Photographer Lars van de Goor Victoria Regina, by Henry Tanworth Wells, 1880 and 1887 Winter – Fifth Avenue, by Alfred Stieglitz, 1892 Garden at Sainte-Adresse, by Claude Monet, 1867 by Laura Posted on February 12, 2012 Posted in Big Picture, Photography | tagged Africa, astronomy, blue, Earth, Earth from Space, NASA, science, space, spheres. The permalink.