Photos from Australia's wildfires

Rob Galbraith compiled a list of galleries of images from the devastating wildfires near Melbourne. The images are at once hauntingly beautiful and immensely sad. My heart goes out to those affected.

Check them out.

Weekly Photography links

Snow blankets London
Beautiful weekly gallery from msnbc. I love 1 and 9.
Gallery of gorgeous scientific photography (mostly electron micrographs) and visualizations from Science Magazine.
What American "Socialism" brought us during the New Deal.
Van on the edge of Rim Rock drive. Rim Rock drive is another WPA project from the depression era. It's in beautiful Colorado National Monument.
Images from the Colorado Stock show. An annual event in Denver in January.
Heartbreaking images from economic collapse in Ohio (via Rob Galbraith)
Superbowl fans

Photographic links of the week.

Pictures of the central plains ice storms
Cool family shots (from John Nack's blog)
Amazing areal images from London. (From Rob Galbraith's blog)
Summer in the southern hemisphere.
Funny juxtaposition.
Rash of naked hikers in the swiss Alps? I thought this has always been popular and not something new?
Why icebergs are blue (this is the correct explanation!)
Gigapan released their panorama robot.
Capture video with any Live View capable Nikon DSLR, even those that don't support video capture!
Win good stuff in the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest.
Beautiful images from one of my favorite National Parks. I found this guy's website after searching for images of a lake I wanted to photograph this spring. I do lots of photography in RMNP myself as many of you will know.
Most poignant photos of the Bush presidency selected by some major photo editors.
Inauguration day (NPR).