Something Beautiful

Flickr Commons

I haven't looked around much yet at Flickr Commons, but it looks very promising.

A good way of looking around seems to be the tag cloud.

While I was finding my way about, this photo from the Smithsonian collection caught my eye.

The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn, the most famous mountain in the Alps.

Churches in the Faroe Islands

Be prepared to be impressed - Churches in the Faroe Islands.   

This page drew my attention to these islands, and then I searched out the page with the churches.  The Faroes are closer to Scotland and Norway, but they belong to Denmark. 

Pixdaus (God Gave Us Pics)

This site seems worth a trial - Pixdaus, subtitled God Gave Us Pics!.

Stand at the threshold…

Just looking at this photo makes me feel peaceful -- Stand at the threshold….

Alpine Lake

Lac Foréant in the French Alps.   Be sure to look at the original size to get the full effect. 

Astrophoto site

The photos here are so stunning, so unexpected, so unimaginably beautiful and strange, that some of them bring tears to the eye -- Astrophoto gallery.

August Sander

For some time I've felt a special affection for the pre-World War II photographs of German photographer August Sander.  The Getty Museum site presents 40 of them. 

My favorite is unquestionably --

Blacksmiths, 1926.   

These are, I think, also very good --

Peasant woman, 1912

Socialist leader, Paul Fröhlich, 1929

Self-portrait, ca. 1940

Welshlady's photos

Amazing flower and nature photos from welshlady. (If you don't look, you are only depriving yourself. ;-) )

Coral

Twelve photographs of sea coral, from the National Geographic site --

Coelenterate

Orange cup coral

Anthias and soft coral

Branching coral

Fluorescent  coral

Anchor coral, with wrasse

Cayman Islands

Great Barrier Reef

Papua New Guinea

Soft Coral 

Black coral

Flower coral