Thwarted by cloud cover while trying to capture a lunar eclipse on film, a Washington photographer ended up with something incredibly magical. He turned his camera toward the ocean and snapped neon green bioluminescent fungus glowing on nearby driftwood, and the resulting images are spectacular. Photographer Mathew Nichols, 28, who works in forest restoration by…

Washington-based artist Jeffro Uitto has made a career of turning nature’s rubbish into art. Collecting pieces of driftwood he finds washed up along the shoreline, Uitto creates majestic composite sculptures of animals and other forms—some functional, some aesthetic—bringing new life to dead wood. The artist has been collecting driftwood since high school, with the varied, versatile material…