Preemptive Caption Contest Winner

Strange photo from The Atlantic's In Focus Signs of Spring photo essay, but the caption really brings it home:
"A Canada goose nests in an urn as a deer keeps a watchful eye at Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, New York April 8, 2011. For at least four days, the buck stood guard near the nest of the goose as she sat on her eggs inside a large urn at the cemetery, home to the remains of President Millard Fillmore and rock icon Rick James."

Rick James, bitch!

Caption Contest

Winner gets a regular Anna's burrito and a low five from me.

2011 Ice Age

A beautiful satellite image of the white Northern Hemisphere:

Reblog: Women Laughing Alone With Salad

I love this. From thehairpin.com comes and excellent series of stock photos. A sample below, see the full series here.

Hmmm....okay

Google Street View Veritas

Amazing tumblr feed of great moments caught by Google Street View cameras. There are so many amazing pictures (and a lot of people giving the camera the bird or mooning it or flashing it), but the one below is one of my favorites:



There are also a surprising amount of prostitutes

and accidents

Best Safari Photographs 2010

Building on the Best of List themes started by Snipes with the best of underwater photos, and Phil with the best arctic photos, here's
Safari Leaders Best Photos of 2010.

Excellent slideshow: The Salton Sea

View all here.

Inspired by Snipes: The Top Ten Arctic Photos

List curated by Wired readers, for the whole thing, click here.

Best Underwater Photographs 2010

TCD analytics staff has told the talent that readers like lists. Fortunately for you, the last 1-2 months of the year always provide a wealth of "best of" lists - so we should be loaded to the "gills" for the rest of the year. We'll provide some good TCD originals, too. Check it here to enjoy the top 24 list (images) of the best underwater photographs from 2010.

Above: A sand tiger shark in a school of fish off of North Carolina.
Photo by Jeremy Kozman.

Photo of the day: Lake Michigan

From my hotel room via cell phone, still a great shot of the Lake first thing in the morning. Severe T-Storms made getting here a little dicey...gusting up to 70 mph.

Kim Jong Il is Hilarious When He Isn't Being Evil

These pictures capture some of the unintentional comedy present amidst the human tragedy that is North Korea.

Excellent photo spread from the Big Picture Blog

The Big Picture blog from Boston.com never fails to deliver. This set of photos is very interesting in particular. Check them all here. The one below caught my eye and the description is really interesting. Drug growers were feeding about 14 wild bears dog food to keep them nearby as they figured it would scare off law enforcement and thieves. Whoa

From the archive: "Vans and the places where they were"

Maybe this is only shocking to me, but this is actually the second of two blogs about vans that I've posted on before here. This is purely a photo blog of vans parked in various locations. It's actually much cooler than it sounds. Check the full show here.

They're Just Showing Off

Big Horns Walking On a Dam

Sweet

Nature photo of the day

From Krakatoa (Indonesia)

Wow

Lil Jon. He's come a long way?

Nature photo of the day

Okay, it's only one rainbow, but damn, it looks pleasing.

Nature photo of the day