Amazing picture thread

[Necron99]

What happens when you name your child something silly like "Ocean"




















Sorry, gotta post the vid.

[Boon Mee]

An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.

[Boon Mee]

The writer George Orwell poses with the puppy during the Spanish Civil War. Behind him is Ernest Hemingway (1937)

[Boon Mee]

8 year old coal miner - 1900's

[Ozcol]

^^^^^ Naming a kid Ocean, New 3 girls in another life , named Coral, Shelley and Sky , Lovely kids , never met the parents ,they were on the school bus I drove.

[Necron99]

baby weasel attacking a woodpecker...

[Boon Mee]

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960

[Boon Mee]

2nd Hand Cell Phone Market in China

[Cujo]

2nd Hand Cell Phone Market in China

Vietnam actually.

[BaitongBoy]

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960

That is a beauty...I expect to see Hemingway poke his head out of the cabin...

Maybe him sitting on the prow...He'd still be alive in 1960...

[Latindancer]

[dirk diggler]

A meteor over Loch Ness

[dirk diggler]

Right, hold onto your hats, I've been gone a while...





“The Architect” is the latest photo manipulation by artist and photographer Erik Johansson (featured previously). According to comments by Erik on his official Faecbook page, the image was created over the course of two months and involves numerous individual elements photographed and put together piece by piece.
Johansson also says that all parts of the image were real, most were shot outdoors but some of the finer details were shot indoor as well.



In this breathtaking aerial photograph by Jialiang Gao, we see the amazing terraced rice terraces of Yunnan, China. Yunnan’s Yuanyang County is a popular destination with photographers due to the vast areas of nearby mountains which have been cultivated into terraced rice paddies for at least the past 1300 years by the Hani people.



Curiosity takes a selfie from Mars





Kim gets a 'Guile'. SONIC BOOOM!



How wild is this? A viewer sent this picture to WITN of a perfect ice imprint of the front of a Jeep Cherokee. The ice remained after the car had driven away from the visitor’s parking lot at the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina.



During a race in Moab, Utah, members of Team Rwanda Cycling stop to touch some snow as it was the team’s first time ever seeing it! The photo was taken back in 2007 and the photo perfectly captures a moment they will never forget.
According to the original post on Facebook, some members of the team put snow in their pockets trying to take it with them!




World class hang-glider pilot Matjaž Klemenčič successfully executes a touch-and-go landing on the wing of a sail plane flown by Nejc Faganelj as the two soar over the Soča valley in Slovenia. In a post on Red Bull, Matjaž says the biggest challenges were speed and timing.









In this adorable before and after shot, we see two newly adopted dogs go from sad to happy as they take a joyous ride to their new home



In this 360 ‘tiny planet’ panorama by Stephanie Alexis, we see her and a friend appearing to sail on a tiny water planet. The photo was recently featured by GoPro as their Photo of the Day.
The photo is actually a composite of two images: the sailboat pic, taken with a GoPro on a selfie stick; and the 360 ‘tiny planet’ panorama created with an iPhone and an app.



1957







In Seoul, South Korea the government has begun to replace old street lights with new LED lamps. The goal is reduce electricity costs and light pollution. In the fascinating picture above by reddit user alreadytakenusername, the difference is quite dramatic. Not only are the LED lights more efficient and reducing light pollution, but they seem to illuminate the road much more effectively, making roads safer to drive at night.

[Silverback]

^Superb shots - nice one.

[Cujo]

A meteor over Loch Ness

Wow talk about having your camera pointed in the right direction at the right time.
Awesome.

[dirk diggler]

While visiting Stonehenge, astronaut Buzz Aldrin sent a “message” to the Cosmos, urging NASA to “get their ass to Mars”. Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and became the second person to ever walk on the moon at 0316 (UTC) on July 21, 1969.
In June 2013, Aldrin wrote an opinion published in The New York Times supporting a manned mission to Mars and views the moon “not as a destination but more a point of departure, one that places humankind on a trajectory to homestead Mars and become a two-planet species.”
His book Mission to Mars was published in May 2013.

[dirk diggler]

Here is Danny MacAskill on his home soil, Isle of Skye, during the eclipse the other day. Sure beats all the pictures of clouds that swamped my fb feed.

Anyone not familiar with Danny MacAskill here is a video of him called 'Way Back Home'. I play it from time to time in my bar as it also has a cracking soundtrack to boot.

[Neo]

Photographer Thierry Legault shot what may be the coolest view yet of yesterday's solar eclipse: the International Space Station's weird little silhouette flying across a thin sliver of visible sun.

[dirk diggler]

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg shared this aerial photo of the amazing 9-acre green roof at Facebook’s brand new headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Zuckerberg adds:
“Today we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California. Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together. We wanted our space to create the same sense of community and connection among our teams that we try to enable with our services across the world.

To do this, we designed the largest open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people. There are lots of small spaces where people can work together, and it’s easy for people to move around and collaborate with anyone here. On the roof is a 9-acre park with walking trails and many outdoor spaces to sit and work.

The building itself is pretty simple and isn’t fancy. That’s on purpose. We want our space to feel like a work in progress. When you enter our buildings, we want you to feel how much left there is to be done in our mission to connect the world



In this jaw-dropping panoramic by Trey Ratcliff, we see the incredible landscape of the northern region of Guangxi, just to the south of the Guizhou and Hunan provinces of China.
In a post on Google+, Ratcliff explains:
“It was a muggy day, the sort where you feel your t-shirt sticking to you before you even realize it. We hired some local guides, who then hired some even more local guides to help show the way to the spire we wanted to ascend. Boy was it grueling! Jagged rocks, thorny bushes, all-fours most of the way. Sometimes the only thing to hold onto was a thorn bush or a glassy-evil-jaded rock. At the top, I looked down to see all kinds of grisly lacerations… but gathered my wits to get this photo! This photo is a panorama, which I don’t normally do, but the Dr. Seuss countryside there is so vast and overpowering, it was kind of the only way to bring it all together.”

[BaitongBoy]

Great, dirk...I can see the dinosaurs in that valley...

[dirk diggler]

For the zoomable 19,000 pixel version, click below.

https://plus.google.com/photos/+Trey...CN-RxMn50Jr0FQ

[steve down under]

Clouds gather over the Suleymaniye Mosque during a storm on August 7, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey

[Boon Mee]

A meteor caught on dashcam in Tauranga, New Zealand.

[Takeovers]

A sculpture of a woman



This picture is not photoshopped. The sculpture is actual size and actually placed where you see it. If you have not noticed, the sculpture is standing on a human hair, so you can imagine the size of the sculpture.

[kingwilly]

Try again.