Australia

This resort-inspired event space is the size of two football fields 🤯 Tucked within towering modern buildings with views over Meanjin’s (@visitbrisbane’s) river and city skyline between, the Leisure Deck at @thestarbrisbane is a world-class venue that’s set to impress for your next business event 🥂 Make the most of the open-air space with a summery event of up to 2,500 pax around the event deck, pools and bars. 📍: @thestarbrisbane, Meanjin (@visitbrisbane), @queensland #SeeAustralia #ComeAndSayGday #MeetInAus #ThisisQueensland #VisitBrisbane ID: A series of videos show an event held on a large rooftop surrounded by a ring of four taller buildings. People are sipping sparkling wine, dining on seafood, playing table tennis and dancing to live music and performances. 

ChrisBurkard

Vatnajökull Field Notes: Day 2 After Day one’s marathon of hike-a-bike, I woke up with expectations to continue on in a similar fashion… but the highlands smiled in our favor with better snow, allowing for actual fatbike riding through increasingly mountainous terrain. Enjoying the better conditions, my mindset shifted towards the excitement of watching the crew lay eyes on Landmannalaugar for the first time…knowing that a geothermal hot spring awaited us next to the highland hut. Upon arrival, we boiled some water to heat up our freeze-dried meals and decided to take the rest of the day to enjoy the hut & prep for tomorrow’s 50+ mile push… keen to take advantage of the sunshine & calm breeze that is a rare occurrence in this part of the country. Hours slid into a dream state sort of existence with the shimmering Aurora giving a poetic finale to the day.. perhaps an apology from the landscape for yesterday’s beating. @kurt.refsnider @justin.and.bikes @tyson.flaharty @miron_golfman @roka @rapha @ari.bikes @envecomposites @tailfincycling @wolf_tooth_comp 📸 @joelbarger_ @vidirb & myself 35mm Scans: @negativelab 

Australia

🌟 Lights On for #vividsydney 2025! 🌟 Ready to step into a dream? The wait is finally over. Wander through a city transformed as @sydney becomes a dreamscape of colour, creativity and wonder. Capture the magic, share the joy, and let your camera roll - your dream night awaits 🤩 💡 Lights On 6pm - 11pm, until 14 June. 🔗 Explore the full program via Vivid Sydney's link in bio. 📸 @_danieltran_ for #vividsydney #sydney #feelnewsydney 

John Derting

Sunset atop a glacier in Iceland… cold air was blowing hard this day but the sun looked incredible way up on one of Icelands south glaciers 😍 

Nature Is Metal

Fortune Favors The Bold 📽 by @russ_wildlife We humans cling to certain animals, elevating them in our hearts above the rest. From my own experiences, three species - dogs, whales, and elephants - spark the fiercest sorrow when they perish in the wild. Dogs, bound to us through millennia, are family; their devotion, bred into their genes, makes their loss feel like a knife to the soul. Whales, like humpbacks or blues, glide through oceans with a grace that seems eternal, their haunting songs evidence of their perceived omnipresence. When they’re hunted or stranded, we ache for these titans. Elephants carry a unique weight. Their minds rival ours, with memories that span decades. A gestation period of 23 months - nearly two years - yields a 200-pound calf, born into a herd woven by matriarchal bonds. When that calf is ripped away to nourish a bandit like a lion or hyena, it’s a gut-punch, a theft of years of care. But nature will never heed our tears. It’s a massive fucking swirl of chaos and luck. We like to create our hierarchies, slotting animals into neat boxes, saying this one’s too noble to fall. Yet, the wild laughs at our charts. A leopard sees no wisdom in an elephant, only flesh to sate its hunger. An orca cares not for a whale’s grandeur, only its meat. Survival boils down to one brutal edict: be faster or smarter than what’s trying to end you, be it the jaws of a ravenous hunter or the specter of failure that haunts every predator in the form of devastating hunger. No one animal is sacred. There are no untouchables, no favorites or underlings. Only the lucky and the unlucky, dancing on a knife’s edge. A missed step can mean certain death - whether you’re the hunted or the hunter. Predators face their own doom: a few failed hunts can spiral into starvation quickly, turning the pursuer into the pursued. Our pleas, our love for these creatures, changes nothing. The wild is a relentless lottery, where every soul, revered or ignored, draws the same unforgiving odds: outrun, outwit, or into the grinder you go. - Did you record a wild video that you would like to get featured here? natureismetal.com/submissions is the absolute best place to send it! 

Hubble Space Telescope

A galactic tilt-a-whirl 🌀 Located 43 million light-years away, the subject of this new #HubbleFriday view is the spiral galaxy NGC 3511. From Hubble's vantage point, NGC 3511 appears to be tilted. These observations were captured as part of a survey of the star formation cycle in (relatively) nearby galaxies. For more information, check out the link in our bio! Image description: A spiral galaxy in space. It is visible at a tilted angle and appears as a stormy disk filled with clouds of stars and dust. It is colored more yellowish in the center, and bluer out toward the edge of the disk, where the ends of curved spiral arms break away from the disk. Spots of red light scattered through the galaxy mark where stars are actively forming. The galaxy is on a black background. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker #NASA #Hubble #Friday #galaxy #space #science #universe #cosmos #telescope 

Nature

🐆 Behold the rare glimpse of a young Snow Leopard amidst Ladakh’s majestic mountains. 🏔️ 📍India 📷 @sascha.fonseca 

Discovery

Hear the moment video evidence captured a loud bang, now believed to be the Titan’s implosion. Don’t miss the two-hour special #ImplosionTheTitanicSubDisaster Wednesday, May 28 at 9p on Discovery. 

Discovery

An upset seal at the Cape Cross Seal Reserve 🗣️ 📸: Edwin Remsburg #seal #capecross #wildlife #namibia