Fast water carries sediment while slow water deposits it

A satellite image from September 1999 of the Mississippi river, showing its many channels and many ox-bow lakes. 'Soft riverbanks are continuously eroded. Floods occasionally spread across the wide, shallow valley that flanks the river, and new channels are left behind when the water recedes. This history of change is recorded in the Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, published by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944.'

'The delta switching has occurred every 1,000 years or so in the past. As sediment accumulates in the main channel, the elevation increases, and the channel becomes more shallow and meandering. Eventually the river finds a shorter, steeper descent to the Gulf. In the 1950s, engineers noticed that the river’s present channel was on the verge of shifting westward to the Atchafalaya River, which would have become the new route to the Gulf. Because of the industry and other development that depended on the present river course, the U.S. Congress authorized the construction of the Old River Control Structure to prevent the shift from happening.' - 'Mississippi Meanders', August 31, 2006 Earth Observatory, Nasa

More 'aerial slices' of rivers: here and of islands: here

Spare, surfeit, surplus

by-product, enough, glut, inundation, leavings, leftover, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, oversupply, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, rest.

'Spare' plastic moulds used in the commercial taxidermy process as spotted, en-mass.

Petra = Streaky Bacon

A collection of photographs of some sights I enjoyed whilst on a recent trip to Petra.

'It's not eyeliner, actually. It's KOHL'

This Bedouin dude had sass, and some great eyeliner/KOHL. When he wasn't waxing lyrical about the importance of freedom and happiness in life he was blurting out the most incongruous phrases presumably learnt from tourists. "Lovely jubely" "Cheap in chips" etc. After he'd inquired about our origins and we'd replied "New Zealand" he yelled out "Aussie Aussie, OI OI OI!".

Definitely one of the chattier and wittier dudes we came across.

Inside the Wreck of the Costa Concordia 2012

source: The Atlantic

Aerial slices II: Rivers

This image pair shows lakes dotting the tundra in northern Siberia to the east of the Taz River (bottom left). The tundra vegetation is colored a faded red, while lakes appear blue or blue-green. White arrows point to lakes that have disappeared or shrunk considerably between 1973 (top) and 2002 (bottom). After studying satellite imagery of about 10,000 large lakes in a 500,000-square-kilometer area in northern Siberia, the scientists documented a decline of 11 percent in the number of lakes, with at least 125 disappearing completely. These images use near-infrared, red, and green wavelength data from the Landsat MSS sensor (1973) and the Landsat ETM+ sensor (2002). - NASA Observatory

Very much inspired by this amazing blog post by pruned (which I only discovered after my sister sent me the link)

'Tetrachromat' | Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall

SOURCE Follow the link to check out the extra large installation shots, and to read about Auerbach's process based 'fold paintings'

Seamus Murphy

Photographer Seamus Murphy (born 1959) grew up in Ireland and lives in London.



Providence 

 
East of the Sun


Gods Country

Shambhaia 




Maximum City 



Feather weight



Syria

Originally discovered Murphy's work here