San Francisco area photographer Eric Dugan managed to get an amazing image: a blackbird catching a ride on a red-tailed hawk’s back in mid-air. You can see the strange series on Eric’s website. The story’s gotten a bit of traction, and appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle this week. The blackbird wasn’t a hop on, [ more... ]

Dietmar Eckell spent years tracking down planes left to be consumed by the wild after they crashed in the middle of nowhere. These 15s planes are unique, in each case everyone aboard survived and all were eventually rescued. He found and photographed the 15 planes, abandoned 10 to 70 years ago. The photos are pretty [ more... ]

Photographer Ray Demski teamed up with climber Alex Luger on a project they called Ice Nights: a photo shoot of an ice climber making his way up these falls in the dark of night. A group helped them rig several massive flashes to rather interesting effect. It looks like the guy is scaling Superman’s Fortress [ more... ]

These shots hit the inbox (rthompson@backcountry.com) with the following fantastic note: With apologies to Jack Handy – If you drop your kayak paddle into molten lava forget about it man because it’s gone. A few kayakers more interested in thrills than self-preservation braved 190F water to paddle in and get these shots. The photo work [ more... ]

The beauty of technology is that as it ages and gets more widely adopted, it gets so much cheaper. A few years ago the only helicopter camera drones were bought in abstruse kits online for extraordinary amount of money and required massive amounts of know-how and programming to run. Now DJI Innovations is selling the [ more... ]

Take in a view of the massive Khumbu Glacier on a monumental picture over at Gigapixel. The image was shot by David Breashears in spring of 2012. Zoom in to see the famous Khumbu icefalls and the mess of yellow tents at basecamp. Ah, the ease of armchair exploration.

The photographer behind the impressive “David and Goliath” undersea photo answered some questions over at Mission Blue on the project. He was diving in was Cabo Pulmo National Park, a large marine reserve in the Sea of Cortez, one of the best places in the world to see whales, dolphins, and fish in large aggregations.

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Take a few moments to appreciate the awesome power of this slide through photos shot by Grant Gunderson. Last Saturday the Mt. Baker Ski Patrol set off some charges on the Shuksan Arm and on Hemispheres. The images speak for the extent of the rest of the snowpack in the area and the damage it [ more... ]

I watched this video no fewer than ten times last week and can’t believe I forgot to share it. It’s some kind of ad for a camera that can shoot 1000 frames per second, though I wonder how many frames they had to shoot before getting this video. I can just imagine how long it’d take my computer to import a two-hour video shot from this camera, though it’d be worth it to see some of my own bike/ski crashes replayed at mega-graceless speed.

Busy at work? Me too. Take a minute to check out Megan Cump’s badass photos and get a dose of wildness. I’d like to stumble onto this bloody scene at night. The fox would probably scurry off leaving me and my friends wonder where all this blood came from. via Good Frames Won’t Save Bad [ more... ]