“To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet” –Thomas Hardy

• Most popular photos on Facebook (Inca Tern – above) and Instagram (Squirrel Squirrel Squirrel below)

• The most moving photos of 2016, according to National Geographic.

• Take a tour of Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland through this New York Times video. I visited Santa in Finland in 2008.

• Photos from the world’s largest Santa Claus convention at The Phoblographer.

• 58 great discoveries of 2016 from Atlas Obscura.

• Throwback photo of week:

• Have you visited my Printshop? 20% of all profits will be donated to the National Audubon Society, the Ocean Conservancy, or the Sierra Club.