50 Best Photos From The Natural World (The Big Picture-Boston.com)

[Are_grits_groceries]

More: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/50_best_photos_of_the_natural.html

I love these photos! I think the owls picture is my favorite.
The Big Picture is usually great.

[Little Star]

1. Those photos are all really great!...

That baby sloth Camillo reminds me of someone famous but I can't quite put my finger on who. LOL

[Scuba]

2. Fabulous. Thanks for posting. n/t

[pnwest]

3. yes, thx for posting. nice injection of beauty into

the regular onslaught of shitty news...I think the lion and the woman is my fave!

[Mira]

4. Thank you so much for these. They are all fabulous!!! n/t

[1monster]

5. Fantastic. Thank you for posting.

[The2ndWheel]

6. A lot of pictures from multiple zoos around the world

I guess the 99% of the world have to live there since the top 1% is just a little too greedy. Difficult to call most of those natural world pictures, and it's weird that in the first sentence it says we share the world with many other species. We clearly don't want to share it. So, lightning and clouds...we're coming for you.

[HopeHoops]

7. K&R

[lunatica]

8. Thanks!

[malaise]

9. Magnificent

Thank you Grits

[AtomicKitten]

10. Beautiful.

[Lunacee2012]

11. The cat in #29 is saved, right?

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. I haven't been able to find out.

I thought about that, and it did bother me.

[Lunacee2012]

14. I found this in the thread going on at the link:

"A cat is stranded on a rock surrounded by rapids at the base of Akron Falls in Akron, New York, on Monday, April 4, 2011. Edit: I Asked the photographer about what happened next, his response: "I was high on a ravine when I photographed the cat. At first I thought the cat was hunting for fish or something. The cat ended up in the water and was swept downstream. I ran down next to the stream as the cat was treading water and I hoped to pull it out but it was on the other side of the river. I lost sight of the cat and then saw it on the other side of the river on top of another rock very close to shore. I could not cross the river as the water was cold and fast so I went down river to a footbridge and walked up on the other side. The cat was not on the rock when I arrived and I did not see it go by me in the river so it's a bit of a mystery as I just really do not know what happened to the cat." (AP Photo/David Duprey)".

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. Thanks!

At least the photographer tried.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Stunningly beautiful and powerful pics but I have to wonder

if the tortose pic was staged?



Thanks for the thread, grits.

[tridim]

16. Owls freak me out, but it is a good picture.

Thanks for posting these.