Suction Barges, originally uploaded by duncandavidson.

Hey look at how effectively BP is spending money on the cleanup effort.

10 guys to watch a shop vac off the side of a barge.

A shop vac vs. 100,000 BPD gushing from the seabed. This is ending well.

The spill is now bigger than Long Island and the entire states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts combined. The visible, top part anyway.

Freyja, originally uploaded by JaneIngrid.

Freyja – clubneko’s newest daughter.

, originally uploaded by 9 0 0 0.

Because it’s in my family’s backyard, so to speak.

Eruption taken near Trojan Nuclear plant, originally uploaded by orclimber.

As the first flickr comment said, this is awesome-o. Highly symbolic, this mushroom cloud has nothing to do with a nuke and everything to do with mother earth popping a zit.

gold on carbon 50x brightfield, originally uploaded by robot makes music.

i take beeg peekchoor small thing.

There are two more of the exact same area, in different types of microscopy modes, this one here is brightfield, HDR and some photoshop compositing. The other two are darkfield and differential interference contrast mode.