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Photographer Gary Braasch shares a solstice shot he made in the Arctic around this time some years ago.

Charles Nicklin, Among Giants

“A gentle joyousness- a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale.” Herman Melville

 Charles "Flip" Nicklin has been photographing whales for over thirty years. His career follows that of his father, Chuck, whose first encounter with a whale in the early '60s led him to become a famous underwater photographer and cinematographer. Nicklin is the lead cetacean photographer for the National Geographic Society, and assignments have taken him from Maui to Antarctica. Among Giants, published last month by the University of Chicago Press,  features some of his best whale work. The pictures are accompanied by Flip's tales of exhilarating underwater encounters with various sea mammals. His total immersion is not only a valued documentary of mysterious creatures, but a welcome distraction from the summer heat.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo10963417.html

 
From Eco Amazons: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World by Dorka Keehn, published by powerHouse Books.

Eco Amazons, released this month by powerHouse Books, profiles 20 American women who are leaders of the environmental movement.

 
Cr: Mike Heydon Jet Photography

May Day at New Zealand's national wildlife centre was marked by the surprising advent of a white kiwi chick.

 
Photograph by Dave Martin/AP

Powerful pictures can have the strange effect of making us remember while wanting to forget. On this anniversary of the BP disaster, and many thousands of images later, we share a visual chronicle of particular moments captured by land, sea and air - from the high drama of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, to the granular evidence of a single, oil-slicked bird, and our massive communal response.
www.audubonmagazine.org/issuearchives/issue1009.html

Photograph by J. Henry Fair/ Flight provided by LightHawk

Whether Grand Central is part of your normal commute or not, it's worth a stop-off this week. As part of Earth Day 2011, J. Henry Fair's photographs will be on display in Vanderbilt Hall April 21-23. 

Andreas Gefeller, Untitled (Cherry Blossoms), 2010, courtesy Hasted Kraeutler

Tonight, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery in New York hosts a reception for the artist Andreas Gefeller, in conjunction with an exhibition of new photographs titled The Japan Series. Gefeller made the work during the spring of 2010 in the Tottori Prefecture for the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Photography Today project. A subtle investigation of the formal relationship between nature and manmade structures, this theme finds an unexpected, twisted echo in Japan’s unfolding disaster. The work will be exhibited in through May 14; and a percentage of profits from the show will be donated to the American Red Cross Japan and Pacific Tsunami Relief Efforts.