700 Million Years

As humans, we strive for longevity and perfection whilst overlooking the simplicity of sea creatures such as these. Jellyfish existed long before us, long before even the dinosaurs, they are some 700 million years in the making, simply moving gently with the tides, some evolving to live forever. 

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The beautifully poetic French word for twilight is 'l'heure entre chien et loup, or 'the hour between the dog and the wolf. The phrase describes the approaching dark as a time when things move from familiar to wild, or when the failing light means it's hard to distinguish between a dog and a wolf.
This phrase feeds into my passions for nature and photography and describes perfectly how light changes everything, and is why I became a photographer.
Sven Delaye
Questembert
This photograph, titled "Between the Lines," was captured in a museum in Mexico The concept of being "between the lines" is both literal and figurative in this composition. The guide here becomes part of the story—simultaneously observer and participant—mirroring how museums let us step into…
Mark Blickley
New York
A visual response I sent to a friend after we had a silly, heated July 4th discussion over why I prefer tea to coffee in the morning, because he reproached me as an un-American Anglophile.
Anastasia Fedotova
Port Louis
They sit in the quiet, carrying the weight of countless untold stories. They are the keepers of a strength that doesn’t shout, that doesn’t seek validation. Their silence is not emptiness; it is filled with the echoes of lives lived through struggle, love, loss, and endurance. In their eyes rests…
Jess Leaf Lensmire
Milwaukee
June 17th, I believe it was Saturday in the afternoon.  There is a skatepark that won't show up on your gps in Milwaukee, where people sweat, elbow a buddy after they said something stupid, drink and share cigs during dusk and oft until 4 am.  Sometimes the lone wolf skaters will work on…