Amazing picture thread

[Necron99]

Cannot post a hot-link but this navigable panorama from the top of One World Trade Centre is pretty amazing

Time Magazine | Gigapan | 1 World Trade Center

It was taken with super hi-res sensor so you can zoom in to see details far away.

Amazing. $10 to the fisrt person who can find something odd, like people screwing on a rooftop.

[reddog]

Cannot post a hot-link but this navigable panorama from the top of One World Trade Centre is pretty amazing

Time Magazine | Gigapan | 1 World Trade Center

It was taken with super hi-res sensor so you can zoom in to see details far away.

Amazing. $10 to the fisrt person who can find something odd, like people screwing on a rooftop.

actually i looked at a lot of roof tops to see if some local had hung out a sign or
was getting up to no good without me there.
the camera/sensor is a great bit of kit.

[Takeovers]

In 1997, D.A.ST. Arteam created Desert Breath, a one-million-square-foot art installation in the expanse of desert near the Red Sea in Egypt. Though since weathered, the artwork still remains today.

[Takeovers]

Aurora

[dirk diggler]

Too true. I loved that slow motion show they had on Discovery Channel a while back too.



How cool is this! Photographer Luke Staff took a long exposure of his backlit keyboard while slowly zooming in and this was the result. Luke posted the image to reddit back in December of 2013.

In the comments Luke explains how he got the shot:

“Setup the camera tripod, set the camera to manual with ISO 400, 4 sec exposure, and 5.6 aperture then started the exposure, with the shutter open I zoomed the lens pausing at the be[ginn]ing and end. It took a ton of tries to get it right. The room was also completely dark except the keyboard backlight. You can bump the exposure time if you want to use a smaller aperture or ISO. Also depending on how bright the backlight is on your keyboard you may have to lower the ISO anyways. I centered on the letter “L” because my name is Luke.”

[YorkshireMan]

Cannot post a hot-link but this navigable panorama from the top of One World Trade Centre is pretty amazing

Time Magazine | Gigapan | 1 World Trade Center

It was taken with super hi-res sensor so you can zoom in to see details far away.

Absolutely brilliant!

That is just amazing, Saved for when I get bored.

[pompeysbroke]

But amazing what high speed photography can reveal.

Yes, amazing indeed. So amazing that a camera with lightening shutter speed, so advanced, is able to snap a woman with her mouth shut...

Argh...don't knock progress

[Looper]

^Amazing spot

Zebra fish embryo



MRI scan of nerve fibres n the human brain



Bat-Scan! - x-ray of a horsehoe bat

[dirk diggler]

In this incredible composite image by architectural photographer Mike Kelley, we see every departure from LAX’s South Complex over an eight hour period. In a detailed blog post, Kelley explains:

I spent about 16 hours shooting and putting this image together… I set up a tripod and photographed every single plane that flew across my frame anywhere from 3 to 10 times, using sandbags to ensure that the camera didn’t move… this resulted in over 400 images from which the composition is built, but not all of them were used… Heat haze, the changing angle of the sun, and other traffic on the ramp all had to be mitigated. The best way I found to do this was using masks and selections in photoshop to isolate every single plane in the final image and then piece them all together one by one, nudging them slightly so that they all lined up. I took some liberties with the positioning of each of the planes in order to make a more compositionally interesting photo.


I couldn’t find much information about the artists but this 3D crosswalk street art was done somewhere in Kyrgyzstan. There was a work in progress photo on a Russian forum but no additional info. Either way it looks great and makes for a fun photo op
Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek. As of 2013 the country’s population was estimated at 5.66 million people.


Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 Fighting Falcons execute a precision acrobat technique known as a Calypso Pass for a crowd March 23, 2014, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. The Thunderbirds performed for more than 185,000 during the MacDill AFB presents Tampa Bay AirFest 2014.
The Calypso Pass is when two planes flying at high-speed perform a mirror image. Interestingly, the Guinness World Record for closest Calypso Pass belongs to Major Scottie Zamzow and Major Brian Farrar of the 2005 Thunderbirds. They were a mere 18 inches (45 cm) apart! The feat was accomplished on 12-13 November 2005 at the Aviation Nation Air Show in Nellis, Las Vegas. [source]
The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force (USAF). The Thunderbirds are assigned to the 57th Wing and are based at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Officers serve a two-year assignment with the squadron, while enlisted personnel serve three to four years. As the squadron performs no more than 88 air demonstrations each year, replacements must be trained for about half of the team each year, in order to provide a constant mix of experience.


Seen here is the small runway/airport known as the Farrenberg aerodrome (FAR1). It sits atop a hill of the same name in the Baden-Württemberg region of Germany. You can see the tiny airport and runway on Google Maps by entering the following coordinates: 48°23’8.49″N 009°04’37.76″E (interestingly, in the Google Maps link you can see a handful of sailplanes preparing for launch)
Due to Farrenberg’s elevation, it is often above the cloud ceiling and makes for dramatic pictures like these when viewed from above.


Taken from his window seat (with his iPhone) as he approached O’Hare, amateur photographer Mark Hersch captured this incredible photo that shows the famous Chicago skyline reflected in Lake Michigan below, just as the sun sets above. Talk about perfect timing!
And if you look really closely, you can see a second airplane in the center of the image, soaring above the clouds as well! Mark tells the Daily Mail:
“I was flying home to Chicago from a business trip recently. It was a cloudy day, late in the afternoon. We were flying eastbound, made a pass by O’Hare International Airport, then made a sweeping 180-degree left turn over Lake Michigan for our final westward approach into the airport. I looked down and through a narrow break in the clouds, I saw the shadow of the Chicago skyline projecting onto the lake. Oddly enough, I am a very frequent flyer and almost always sit in an aisle seat, but on this flight there were only window seats available.”

For me there are two key takeaways from this experience: 1) Always get a window seat and 2) know that the best camera is the one you have with you!

[dirk diggler]

In this lovely capture by Luca Casartelli, we see Isola San Giulio (or San Giulio Island) on Lake Orta, in the region of Piedmont in northwestern Italy. The island measures 275 metres (902 feet) long by 140 metres (459 feet) wide. The most famous building on the island is the Basilica of Saint Giulio, close to which you can see the monumental old Seminary (1840s).
The little island, just west of the lakeshore village of Orta San Giulio, has very picturesque buildings, and takes its name from a local patron saint (Julius of Novara), who lived in the second half of the 4th century. [source]
Boat rides to the island are available year-round. According to comments on TripAdvisor, a round trip will cost about 4 euros.


From open prairie land on the 1625-acre Johnson Space Center site, a Johnson Space Center photographer took this multi-frame composite image of the so-called “Blood Moon” lunar eclipse in the early hours of April 15.
The eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs when the Earth, moon and sun are in perfect alignment, blanketing the moon in the Earth’s shadow. The United States will not be able to witness a full lunar eclipse in its entirety again until 2019. As for the blood moon reference, this is a term that the media has picked up and run with recently. It is in reference to the four ‘red moons’ of a lunar tetrad. A lunar tetrad refers to four successive total lunar eclipses with no partial lunar eclipses in between, each of which is separated from the other by six lunar months (six full moons). There’s a good write-up on EarthSky about the whole ‘blood moon’ thing.

What is a Blood Moon? | Human World | EarthSky

[Necron99]

[Cujo]

That's a REALLY powerful image, I like it a lot, got to spread the love but I'll get you next time round.

[dirk diggler]

I'm not really feeling the death in this pic. It's like big powerful bosies.

[Necron99]

I'm not really feeling the death in this pic. It's like big powerful bosies.

^ With big nasty claws..........

the photographer snapped off a whole bunch but only a few were released to news.
The warthog walked into a pride and woke the lionesses but got away, the photographer was ready to pack up and go home when the same warthog walked back into the pride again! Suicide by lion....

Found em....

Struggle.......




Capitulation......



some more here.

[dirk diggler]

That's more like it!

If I was the photographer I'd have packed my shit and gtf out of there long ago.

Just realised this is probably the reason I was wrestling big jungle cats in my dreams last night.

[dirk diggler]

This photo will make you do a ‘double-take’. At first glance it kind of looks like a gigantic crayfish on a metallic, Earth-like planet with stars in the background. Upon closer inspection it’s really just a small crayfish at the bottom of a metal bucket, with drops of water on the sides.



During the Christmas season, public trolleys in Budapest, Hungary are outfitted with over 30,000 twinkling LED lights. The tradition began in 2009 and has been a hit with passengers ever since. The lit up trams have become a beacon for photo ops and creative photographers have found interesting ways to capture them.
In this eight second long exposure photograph by Viktor Varga, the moving tram looks like it’s moving through space and time. Reports of Doc Brown and Mart McFly at the trolley’s helm have yet to be confirmed



Pictured here are the oldest known pants in history at 3000 – 3300 years of age. The ancient trousers were excavated from tombs in western China along with the remains of two men. The team of scientists was led by archaeologists Ulrike Beck and Mayke Wagner of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.
In a recently published paper, Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania remarks:

“This new paper definitely supports the idea that trousers were invented for horse riding by mobile pastoralists, and that trousers were brought to the Tarim Basin by horse-riding peoples.”

Previously, Europeans and Asians wore gowns, robes, tunics, togas or — as observed on the 5,300-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman — a three-piece combination of loincloth and individual leggings. A dry climate and hot summers helped preserve human corpses, clothing and other organic material in the Tarim Basin. More than 500 tombs have been excavated in a graveyard there since the early 1970s.
Each pair of trousers was sewn together from three pieces of brown-colored wool cloth, one piece for each leg and an insert for the crotch.

[Looper]

[dirk diggler]

Do we get an explanation?

[Albert Shagnastier]

^LSD .

[BaitongBoy]

Hang-glider exploding on impact...

[pickel]

Planetary diarrhea?

[Looper]

Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner are the husband-and-wife duo behind Floto+Warner, a New York-based photo studio. Their aptly titled 'Colourant' series features Western and Midwestern US landscapes with - literally - a splash of color. Fast shutter speeds freeze the action and give them the appearance of sculptures, suspended in time for only a moment.

Making a splash: Photos capture colorful liquids frozen in time: Digital Photography Review

[Takeovers]

A photo of the Saturn Rings by the space probe Cassini. Cassini is now 10 years in the Saturn System researching Saturn, the rings and the many moons.

[dirk diggler]

Photograph by Jesse Rockwell | tasteoftheroad.com

Down a nondescript soi (Thai term for side-street) in the old town of Bangkok you will find the abandoned New World shopping mall. Travel photographer Jesse Rockwell ventured beyond the ‘Do Not Enter’ sign and discovered a flooded building overrun with koi and catfish. On his travel blog, A Taste of the Road, Rockwell explains:

Originally constructed as an eleven storey building. It was found to be in breach of old town Bangkok’s four storey limit on building heights. The top seven floors were demolished to adhere to building codes in 1997. In 1999 the mall burned due to suspected arson committed by a competitor in the area. The disaster resulted in several casualties, and the building has remained abandoned ever since. Not having a roof, the basement floor remains under several feet of water year round.

At some point in the early 2000′s an unknown person began introducing a small population of exotic Koi and Catfish species. The small population of fish began to thrive and the result is now a self-sustained, and amazingly populated urban aquarium. [source]

You can find more pictures of this fascinating ‘urban aquarium’ on Rockwell’s blog.

Blog here - The Secret Of The Abandoned Fish Mall | A Taste Of The Road

[Sumocakewalk]

^ ^
Looks like an interesting place, with unusual origins in an abandoned mall. I am wondering what the fate of the fish will be though with the recent news article about the place.

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...orld-mall.html (BMA seals off New World Mall 'fishpond')