Anna Iltnere

good morning, woodpecker

so the whole world for a dog is in the colors of a seaside day

A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.

A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific

"Globally, the research found ocean levels are an average of 30cm higher than previously believed, but in some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100-150cm higher than previously thought."

[sigh]

JOY

“I couldn’t make sense of what I was looking at” – Deep sea submarine pilot recalls first sighting of super rare ocean giant | Discover Wildlife It’s not only deep-sea researchers that get to see the rare giant phantom jellyfish

“With tentacles that can trail on for 10 metres, giant phantom jellyfish can grow longer than a bus. Even though things appear smaller out of the sub windows – due to refraction – these colossal jellies make any other marine life around them look tiny.”

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

February flight, flood, light An east wind pushed and pulled at the threads of early February. For days, it flattened waves and suppressed the sea. It was a firm hand denying the impulse of waves to break into mischief. It crea…

An antidote to news of war perhaps. A short post/read on light and the arrival of spring:

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Morning stroll image 3: a forest seen from above

‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier? An old Dutch ritual of going outside to watch the coming of night – or dusking – is having a revival across Europe. Fans of the practice say it’s a great way to disconnect from screens and find peace

“There is a grandeur with sunset, but it’s still a spectacle of light. Dusking is much more subtle: it asks more of your attention, but triggers your imagination. Twilight has always been that way – it’s a time of shape-shifting.”

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Refresh Shop • The Refresh shop Discover Refresh: a quarterly printed magazine featuring emerging artists doing deep, meaningful work. Thoughtfully curated collections exploring contemporary culture and post-digital creativity.

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“The world may not have asked for Refresh, but perhaps that’s exactly why it matters. Emerging & pioneering artists everywhere are already illuminating this pivotal moment, opening new ways of seeing, nurturing what’s trying to bloom while the old order makes its final, thunderous bow.”

new mag

“A historical view of our relationship with orcas reveals that they have often served as a Rorschach test for humanity’s conflicted attitudes toward the sea.”

@aeon.co

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my favorite pocket – the Sea Library. my passion, my madness, my ritual, my everything – and created for you.

Absolutely

good morning, Laine!

Sea Library window early in the morning, with icicles hanging from the jasmine branches. It’s getting warmer after two record cold winter months.

Humans – not Mimmo the dolphin – need managing in Venice lagoon, say scientists Researchers say solitary bottlenose has adapted well to city waters, but tighter controls on boat traffic and human behaviour are needed

“Italian scientists monitoring the movements of a dolphin in the Venice lagoon have said humans are the ones who need managing, rather than wildlife.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Snow dog strutting, Brooklyn

waiting the sea

step by step

Tiny pebbles resting in a little opening in a stonewall on the shoreline. It had just started to rain. Just as I went to take this shot a drop fell on the blue stone. I couldn't see its shape until I uploaded it. #heart

this cold winter strives for perfection

A Landscape Artist in Winter In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.

“Change is best understood by staying in the same place, and it takes a while before you really get to see and understand change."

snow snow everywhere after a night and day of severe snow storm all across Latvia. found a whale in the meadow.

oh wow a movie!

Still accepting abstract submissions for our @rgsibg.bsky.social
annual conference session on more-than-human seas. We are seeking papers which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and speculative ocean futures from multispecies perspectives 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠

train station on a cold morning

now it is very far, hard to tell, I saw the sea only where the horizon line is, four days ago an icebreaker started to work where the gulf reaches the open sea, it wasn’t used since 2018 winter

“Cities and civilizations rise and fall, but the sea is always the sea.”

Philip Hoare “Leviathan, or The Whale”

photo by Kristians, 16