Amazing picture thread

[kingwilly]

not exactly staged...

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag is disturbed by what she sees as the staged nature of the photograph. She writes that 'he would not have carried out the summary execution there had [the press] not been available to witness it'.[9] However, Donald Winslow of the New York Times quotes Adams as having described the image as a 'reflex picture' and 'wasn't certain of what he'd photographed until the film was developed'. Furthermore, Winslow notes that Adams 'wanted me to understand that “Saigon Execution” was not his most important picture and that he did not want his obituary to begin, “Eddie Adams, the photographer best known for his iconic Vietnam photograph ‘Saigon Execution’'.[6]

[Chittychangchang]

[Sumbitch]

World record free solo slackline (without harness)

[bobo746]

A ‘dirty’ thunderstorm with volcanic lightning, as Italy’s Mount Etna erupts on December 3, 2015.

[bobo746]

Bon-chan, a 19-year-old male African spurred tortoise weighing about 70 kilograms (154 pounds), walks with his owner Hisao Mitani on a street in the town of Tsukishima in Tokyo

[bobo746]

While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe's Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways—or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack. In keeping with pre-Germanic Pagan traditions, men dressed as these demons have been frightening children on Krampusnacht for centuries, chasing them and hitting them with sticks, on an (often alcohol-fueled) run through the dark streets.

[bobo746]

Evening mood at Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The picture was taken near Three Peaks refuge, located in the heart of the Dolomiti di Sesto, Italy

[bobo746]

Hello London

[bobo746]

Landscape in nothern Norway.

[bobo746]

the Singing Sand dunes near the Crescent Moon Spring in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, China.

[bobo746]

The Maijishan Grottoes in the city of Tianshui, Gansu Province The Maijishan Grottoes are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of the hill of Majishan in Tianshui. This example of rock-cut architecture contains over 7,200 Buddhist sculptures and over 1,000 square meters of murals. Construction began in the Later Qin era (384-417 CE

[bobo746]

Swedish tourist surfs in Unstad beach in the Lofoten Islands, within the Arctic Circle in Norway

[Cujo]

(384-417 CE

What's 'CE'?

[palexxxx]

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

[Cujo]

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

Ah, so the new PC term for what has been known for millenia as A.D. (ffs)

[Chittychangchang]

Worthy off a hug

[Chittychangchang]

This is Mainau, an island on the south shore of Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) near the city of Konstanz, Germany.

[Cujo]

Worthy off a hug

Bet that's seen some changes.
Wonder how old it is.

[Chittychangchang]

According to scientists, this baobab tree is about 6,000 years old.



The proprietors of the land on which the tree grows, the van Heerden family, discovered a hollow inside to the tree with “caverns and caves” reaching up to four metres high. So what did they do? They turned those caverns into a bar!

[bobo746]

So this is christmas

[kingwilly]

A freezing cup of tea in Canada



http://www.iflscience.com/environmen...ing-photograph

[bobo746]

Caño Cristales (English: Crystal Spout) is a Colombian river located in the Serrania de la Macarena province of Meta. It's a tributary of the Guayabero River. The river is commonly called the "River of Five Colors" or the "Liquid Rainbow", and is even referred to as the most beautiful river in the world due to its striking colors. The bed of river in the end of July through November is variously colored yellow, green, blue, black, and especially red, the last caused by the Macarenia clavigera (Podostemaceae) on the bottom of the river

[bobo746]

Silfra Rift - Pingvellir National Park, Iceland

[kingwilly]

Dust by James Smart
Updated about 2 hours ago

DIRT by James Smart won National Geographic's 2015 Photography Contest and the Nature category. He shot this jaw-dropping, rare anti-cyclonic tornado in open farm land near Simla, Colorado, on the last of 15 days of storm chasing.

Supplied: James Smart/National Geographic 2015 Photo Contest

Dust by James Smart - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[TizMe]

this pink iceberg is the result of algae which is growing in the ice and has been effected by the UV rays which results in the algae producing this reddish pink color