Amazing picture thread

[VocalNeal]

Brilliant idea! Love it. I'd use it.

[misskit]

^ Me, too. I was wondering exactly where that mall is. If in the area, will make it a point to go.

[Boon Mee]

YEEEEEHAW!!!!!

[Boon Mee]

Maybe Misskit can explain this...

[Cujo]

Maybe Misskit can explain this...

Let me try. Taken from a head on angle from far way with a powerful zoom. Foreshortening effect will do that.
I'd like to see it taken from the side.
Still steep I'd wager but not as steep as those pics would suggest.

[Gazza]

^
Sounds about right.
Check the angle of the oncoming cars. If it was as steep as it appears then the angle of the cars would almost be an over-head view.

[VocalNeal]

Grade is 6.1% which is 3.5 degrees. Twice plus the Rama 9 bridge.

[Latindancer]

[Kurgen]

until they fart.

[Sumocakewalk]

^^^^ Looks like they added a little chicane or kink on that slope. Perhaps trying to reduce the speed a la formula 1. Not sure that will do much good.

Imagine having a bridge with a slope like that in Thailand. There might be a brake failure or two (per day) there.

[Boon Mee]

A fallen giant



Sequoia National Park

[dirk diggler]

Been a while...


Photographer Nomi Oranchuk took this beautiful shot of a black velvet petunia at Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, Canada.


Street artist Cosimo ‘Cheone‘ Caiffa just completed this awesome mural in Milan, Italy that extends beyond the wall onto the sidewalk and street below.


Darth Vader and a group of stormtroopers are spotted protesting at April’s C2E2—the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo.


“Sunday Sketches” is an ongoing series by artist Christoph Niemann where he repurposes everyday objects in creative and playful ways.


Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Iwo Jima participate in a swim call on 18 April 2015. During ‘swim calls’ sailor and marines get to take a casual dip in the sea while onlookers above keep an eye out for sharks and other undersea creatures.


Photograph by Vitaliy Raskalov / On The Roofs In this stunning night-time capture by Vitaliy Raskalov, we see the bustling metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio is the second largest city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the sixth largest city in the Americas.


Photograph by kidgalaxy on reddit Reddit user kidgalaxy discovered a tiny terrarium inside an old bottle while he was cleaning his yard. The surprisingly crisp close-up was taken with his smartphone.


Photograph by _iond_ on reddit “Run Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste” – Gandalf Spotted at the Prague Zoo by reddit user _iond_, we see a triumphant turtle riding a crocodile, a Gharial to be exact.


Photograph by David Parry/PA Sculptor Iain Prendergast created this 50 ft (15 m) parrot from the famous Monty Python sketch, the Dead Parrot (embedded below). The bird was placed in London’s Potters Field Park last July to promote the 10-day Monty Python reunion charity event


In this funny photo we see two suspicious-looking buildings near Liar’s Bridge in Sibiu, Romania. Seeing faces in random objects and buildings is actually quite common, in fact the psychological phenomenon even has a name—pareidolia.


Amanda Curtis snapped this pic of a rare quadruple rainbow while waiting for her Long Island train to New York on the morning of 21 April 2015. Curtis was waiting at Glen Cove station when she spotted it.


A Banyan is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte (a plant growing on another plant) when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree (or on structures like buildings and bridges). “Banyan” often refers specifically to the Indian banyan (Ficus benghalensis), which is the national tree of India, though the term has been generalized to include all figs that share a characteristic life cycle.


Because I have a soft spot for Huskies.

[Boon Mee]

Nowhere to hide

[BUGBEAR]

Thanks for the the pic's men , loged in for more

BB

[bobo746]

[Ratchaburi]

Water fall at Uluru

[bobo746]

^

[Latindancer]

That reminds me....there's an interesting formation on Ayers Rock (Uluru) called The Brain, which is hundreds of feet high.


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[dirk diggler]

And Wave Cave

[Ratchaburi]

You mean Wave Rock

[dirk diggler]

Same same but different but still same.

[Cujo]

Same same but different but still same.

But different.

[Latindancer]

Er, yes. Wave Rock is about 2,000 km away, in Western Australia.

[Cujo]

Er, yes. Wave Rock is about 2,000 km away, in Western Australia.

Thanks Sherlock but I wasn't talking to you.

[Latindancer]

Jeez, you can be a touchy bugger.


Well, I wasn't talking to YOU ! I was commenting for the benefit of all others reading this thread.