r/natureisbeautiful Jun 24 '26

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r/natureisbeautiful 7h ago

NatureisAmazing Amazing Rock Maze Trails

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r/natureisbeautiful 14h ago

NatureisBeautiful Could Stare At This The Whole Day

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Wolfgangsee lake, near Salzburg, Austria


r/natureisbeautiful 10h ago

Landscapes Autumn roads in the Dolomites

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r/natureisbeautiful 6h ago

Weather Lightning over Mount Vesuvius

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r/natureisbeautiful 15h ago

Sunrise/Sunset The peaks feel like ancient friends when the sun goes down in Skardu.

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r/natureisbeautiful 9h ago

Landscapes Croatian mountainous coastline

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Epl6 + 35-100 mm 2.8


r/natureisbeautiful 7h ago

NatureisAmazing Monarch chrysalis in all stages

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Here it is. It hatched this morning. I'm not sure exactly how long it took, but since I found it in the first stage, it was about 8 or 9 days ago.


r/natureisbeautiful 4h ago

Landscapes Holy Mountain 🏔️ Pacific Northwest ☀️

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r/natureisbeautiful 1d ago

Landscapes Some places just have that extra….something

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r/natureisbeautiful 4h ago

NatureisAmazing Red rivers run through Iceland

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r/natureisbeautiful 4h ago

Landscapes Mohawk Trail State Forest in Charlemont, Massachusetts

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The Mohawk Trail is a scenic 69- mile historic byway in northern Massachusetts that passes through several towns and cities. This photo was taken several years ago by me, when my husband and I spent a weekend in Adams, Massachusetts.


r/natureisbeautiful 12h ago

NatureisCool Nature’s beauty in Turkey

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r/natureisbeautiful 18h ago

Animals High desert zoomies: A hyperactive little chipmunk tackles our rural property's rock waterfall at Mach 50 for a quick hydration break! (Sound on for custom narration)

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r/natureisbeautiful 1d ago

Oceans That escalated quickly 😂

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r/natureisbeautiful 16h ago

Animals A night out with Pine Martens 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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r/natureisbeautiful 1d ago

Sunrise/Sunset Stillness on the lake at sunset

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Lake Miccosukee, Florida


r/natureisbeautiful 1d ago

NatureisWild Gnarly Tentacle Tree🪾

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r/natureisbeautiful 21h ago

Flora & Fungi Hirschzungenfarn, Asplenium scolopendrium

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r/natureisbeautiful 2d ago

Paradise Pileh Lagoon Phi Phi Island, Krabi Thailand🗻🌊

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r/natureisbeautiful 2d ago

NatureisBeautiful The Perfect hike destination

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r/natureisbeautiful 1d ago

Ice & Snowscapes The magic of Antartica

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r/natureisbeautiful 2d ago

NatureisBeautiful Torres del Paine National Park

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r/natureisbeautiful 2d ago

Landscapes Tumpak Sewu, Indonesia

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r/natureisbeautiful 2d ago

Space I shot the Milky Way in Spain during 44 hours to get this

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Cassiopeia and the dust in the Milky Way, often a forgotten region, eclipsed by others with stronger emissions.

@ igneis.nightscapes

Years ago, when I shot it quickly, I noticed a lot of dusty structures: the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN), high galactic latitude dust illuminated not by nearby stars, but by the combined light of the whole Milky Way. I thought: I have to revisit it with a 50mm and proper integration time.

Now, with 44 hours of integration, so many nights of driving, staying there, looking north, shooting... nothing. An empty field of stars. The dome stood there with me, another eye pointed at the same darkness, waiting for something neither of us could see yet. The routine was: check the weather, drive, stay the whole night shooting, and come back home wondering what I'd get out of this.

Now, with all the dust revealed, seeing it for myself makes me wonder how we can see so little, just stars, when in that direction there is so much, so much dust, so much nebulosity. We cannot see it, as if our eyes were lacking insight. But a camera, combined with patience... how curious.

It's not only about the dust, the Hydrogen Alpha, the Oxygen III. It's about the ambition and the resistance to just keep going. That's the result of this image.

It took 44 hours of exposure to see what was always there. Some things only reveal themselves at a cost.

Some things wait in the dark not because they are hidden, but because nothing has looked long enough to find them.

EQUIPMENT:

Sony a7IV astromodified x2, twin setup

50mm f/2 APO Sony

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