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Lone Orca swims near Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
An orca swims near Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), in British Columbia, Canada.
Image Credit: Photograph by Kevin Lanthier / Getty
The killer whale or orca is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member.
Killer whales have a diverse diet, although individual populations often specialize in particular types of prey.
Some feed exclusively on fish, while others hunt marine mammals such as seals and other species of dolphin.
Source: A Photo Appreciation of Whales – The Atlantic
The Colourful Themed Garden of Montreal.
Mosaiculture “is a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).” 
The 2013 was held at the Montréal Botanical Garden and features some 22,000 plant species and cultivars distributed throughout 10 exhibition greenhouses and 30 themed gardens.
via Monumental Plant Sculptures at the 2013 Mosaicultures Internationales de Montréal | Colossal.
Amazing Light Pillars Northern Ontario.
by Giedrė
A lot of spectacular things happen at night, and luckily there is someone to capture them while we’re sleeping tight in our beds.
Photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga was recently woken up by his two year-old boy Gibson at 1:30 a.m. when his son spotted beautiful color lights dancing in the sky.
Timothy quickly picked up his camera and shot some amazing photos of what he later realized is a phenomenon, called “light pillars.”
“I thought it was The Northern Lights because we live in Canada,” Elzinga said. “It was a super clear night, you could see everything.
These lights were [shooting] into the sky, blasting hundreds of feet in the air, and they were shimmering and moving.
“A light pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon, which is an interaction of light with ice crystals.
When the temperature drops and these crystals position themselves horizontally as they fall through the air, they act as “vessels” for light, shooting it upwards.
More info: YouTube (h/t: petapixel, twistedsifter)
See more images via Photographer Captures Amazing Light Pillars In Northern Ontario (10+ Pics) | Bored Panda
Man keeps mowing with Tornado in the background.
Image Credit: Photograph by Cecilia Wessels.
On 2 June, it was a hot afternoon and my daughter woke from a nap saying, “Daddy doesn’t want to come inside – he’s mowing the lawn but there’s something in the sky!”
I asked my husband if he’d seen it and he said, “Yes, but everything’s fine; it’s moving away.” I took a picture of the tornado on its own to send to my parents.
It was really big, so I included my husband for perspective.
At the time, it didn’t feel dangerous at all – it was a strange moment.
See more Images via The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them | Media | The Guardian
Frozen Bubbles, Banff National Park.
Photographed in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, the bubbles are made from highly flammable gas methane. Paul Zizka/Caters News Agency
Methane gas bubbles underneath Vermillion Lakes in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Normally the bubbles would break the surface but in low temperatures they freeze.
The gas, which is emitted by bacteria after they consume dead organic matter, is fairly harmless but the bubbles can cause an explosion if lit.
Vermilion Lakes are a series of lakes located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
See more Images via Frozen bubbles in Canadian lakes – in pictures | World news | The Guardian.
Animal Murals in Vancouver.
Fiona Tang is an artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada and attending the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
In a series of amazing large-scale murals, Tang draws animals that seem to leap off the wall. On the artist’s tumblr page, he explains:
“I started doing art a couple of years ago, and despite my parents disapproval, I have stuck to and fought for my art. I love sketching, to the point where I will catch myself looking at my surroundings as sketches.
Art is not only my passion, but also my outlet and therapy; it always manages to cheer me up.”
To see more, check out Tang’s work on tumblr and Facebook.
See more beautiful murals via Animal Murals that Seem to Leap Off the Wall «TwistedSifter.
Night Kayaking, The Rockies.
Image Credit: Photograph by Paul Ziska.
“Working alone and out in remote locations is always time-consuming, and it involves a lot of back and forth to get the shot,” says Paul Zizka of this self-portrait he took in a kayak on Goat Lake in the Canadian Rockies.
“I had been planning on visiting this location for some time, and on this night the conditions were perfect.
The stars danced across the surface of the lake, and it felt like I was gliding through the night sky.
”Shooting a self-portrait at night isn’t without its challenges, Zizka says. Keeping yourself still enough in a kayak so the camera can catch a sharp exposure is particularly daunting.
“I propped the kayak on top of a rock to help stabilize it once I was in the frame. It took a few tries, but eventually I got a frame with sharp focus that I could be happy with.”
See more great images at Nat. Geo. via Setting Up Camp in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington
Boys of the street in old Vancouver, c. 1962.
Boys on Shed, 1962
Old Vancouver was characterised by wooden houses, and photographs of those houses was a favourite subject before it was swept away by developments in the 1970s.
Image Credit: Photograph by Fred Herzog , Vancouver Art Gallery
via Lost Vancouver – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
