- Italian photographer Stefano Cerio documents Chinese amusement parks in hibernation in his upcoming book “Chinese Fun.”
- See Wayne Levin’s gorgeous pictures of schools of Hawaiian fish in hypnotizing shapes at D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences.
- Outside magazine has a slideshow of awful scenes from the wildfires raging in California.
- For decades, nobody had explored the vast photo archives of Metronome Magazine, which closed in 1961, until Pierre Vudrag decided to take a look. His selections from the archives are now featured in a traveling exhibition, “The Metronome Jazz Photo Collection.”
- Members of Uganda’s persecuted LGBT community celebrated Gay Pride this week in an undisclosed location near the capital Kampala.
- There are a few galleries out there of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked on Thursday, but this one by the Guardian is quite nice.
- Lachryphagy is the practice of drinking tears for nutrients. It’s what these butterflies are doing to a pair of turtles in Ecuador.
- In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.
- 96 million black polythene “shade balls” fill a reservoir in drought-hit Los Angeles to protect against evaporation.
- Envious of the endless barrage of friends’ gorgeous vacation photos on social media? Guardian readers share their soggy British holiday pictures.
- A fox decided to take a nap and be adorable on this second story window in London.