Cool Clicks: Best of the Year 2025 Links

When the world is going grim, you take refuge in the pieces of awe and marvel around you. Sharing some art, photography and music to click for.

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[1] Feast on the photos of the Earth’s most stunning landscapes for the 2025 International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest. In case you have trouble accessing the official website, also try The Atlantic and My Modern Met. I could not take my eyes off this haunting landscape photograph from New Mexico by Karol Nienartowicz.

[2] “Ghostly Nursery“

Time Magazine has published the Best Space Photos of the Year 2025. All of them seem surreal, but this one in particular was spell-binding. This is a nebula, quoting from the website:
“Located just 480 light years from Earth, this reflection nebula, known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud, is illuminated principally by the three bright stars in the center of the image. The cloud’s relatively close proximity to Earth lends it to further study by astronomers wanting to learn more about how stars, and the protoplanets that circle them, form.”

[3] French supermarket chain Intermarché launched its advertisement titled “Le mal aimé,” or “Unloved”, which is beautifully made and so feel-good. Can a wolf ever make friends too?

[4] Ocean Photographer of the Year – Now, let’s take a look at some stunning photos of the oceans at Oceanographic Magazine.

[5] Miniature Library Photographs – created by Tomas Mayer

These are miniature libraries, hundreds of tiny books in tiny shelves hand crafted! The sheer detailing and scale of it, amazing!

[6] Bird Photographer of the Year competition gallery

I loved all of the photographs, but this one in particular drew me.

[7] 2025 Audubon (Bird) Photography Awards

Let’s give the birds another round of applause!

[8] Amazing Feline photos by Tim Flach

The link above takes you to a delightful collection of the most mesmerizing photographs of cats. Take a look at Flach at work as well.

[9] 2025 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition

Here’s one more for the oceans.

[10] Becoming, a time-lapse film by Jan van IJken

A single cell splits, again and again, to transform from a single cell zygote to hatched larva. Four weeks of growth are condensed into 6 minutes in this video, and is the miracle of biology for all life on earth.

[11] How the Outlander Theme song has evolved

We have now seen 7 seasons of the Outlander show. I have not watched beyond Season 3, but I love, love, love the Skye Boat Song, in all its renditions by Bear McCreary.

[12] Psycho Killer

Talking Heads celebrated the 50th anniversary of their 1975 debut by releasing the first-ever music video for their song ‘Psycho Killer’ with Saoirse Ronan. It’s quirky and bizarre and I loved it!

What cool stuff caught your mouse clicks this year? Do share in the comments!