La Cour Jardin in the Plaza Athenee hotel in Paris.

Mike Hollingshead of Extreme Instability has released an amazing series of 17 HD looping storm gifs at an amazing 1920×1080 resolution. You can check out the full gallery here but be warned, some of the gifs may take a moment to load, with some as large as 20-30 MB.

Testing the Waters by Schim Schimmel

Photography by Tom Kahler

Untitled by Chris Cody

Ironstone nodule has little white ankerite lined clefts with green sprays of millerite orientated on a single galena crystal, to the side is a bipyrimidal quartz crystal

by François Hogue

The skull of an armadillo lizard. Image courtesy of Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers