Amazing picture thread

[Boon Mee]

That's one furry cat



Photographer Amy Toensing holds a lynx that is to be reintroduced to the Southern Colorado wilderness. The holding facility behind Toensing held 23 lynx that were looked over by a CDOW vet, 18 of which were collared and released that week.
In 1999 the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) began a lynx reintroduction program, trapping the animals in Canada and bringing them to Colorado. The goal is to re-establish the lynx population in the state, which has been nonexistent since the 1970s, to a viable level where the population that can sustain itself.

Lynx reintroduction | AMY TOENSING Photography

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[Boon Mee]

Nice quartet



Two F-35C Lightning II aircraft fly in formation with two F/A-18E/F Super Hornets over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, April 14, 2015. The flight is part of a six-day visit by Strike Fighter Squadron 101 to Naval Air Station Lemoore, Cailf., the future site for the F-35C. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Darin Russell

[Boon Mee]

Wow! A rare albino stealth jet!

[Cujo]

^ Brilliant

[Sumocakewalk]

That's one furry cat

Never realized lynx were that big. The Canadian species is not even the biggest at up to 11 kilograms, although the example in the photo appears to be bigger than that. That distinction goes to the Eurasian lynx which, males of which can be up to 30 kilograms. (from wikipedia)

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[VocalNeal]

Sorry must try harder?

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[Boon Mee]

More Calbuco Volcano in Chile

[Boon Mee]

That moment…..

[Sumbitch]

Flying jetmen stunningly soar all over Dubai

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Gone fishing.

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An ass whoppin' sometimes comes from above - HALO

[Takeovers]

The ISS passing in front of the moon.

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dronestagram winners are announced

Dronestagram?s photo contest winners soar to ?change the way we see the world? - The Washington Post

[Davis Knowlton]

I've seen that on other sites as the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo here in 1991. Don't know if that's correct or not....

[Latindancer]

The driver of a pick-up truck desperately tries to overrun a cloud of ash spewing from the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. ALBERTO GARCIA/CONTRIBUTOR

• Several publications have honored Alberto Garcia’s photo
• Picture captured a pick-up truck running away from ash storm
• Photographer took the shot while running for his life


LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A photograph of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo has been selected as one of 38 emotion-packed pictures of all time by an American online publication.
In an article titled, “32 Heart-Stopping Moments You Can Only Experience Thanks To A Camera,” the Huffington Post picked the iconic picture of a driver in a pick-up truck running away from a storm of ash spewing from the volcanic eruption in 1991.
It was the latest accolade for photographer Alberto Garcia, former chief photographer of Tempo, a Manila tabloid affiliated with the Manila Bulletin.

” I am happy and grateful. At least after more than 22 years, they still remember how I captured the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo,” said Garcia when reached from his home in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he is now based.
Even though the eruption happened those many years ago, Garcia said he feels like it happened yesterday, and his capture of the event is still vivid in his mind.

He said that when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs), raised the alert level on Mt. Pinatubo, he immediately informed his photo agency based in New York about the situation.
“It took me 30 minutes to prepare my things and headed back to Zambales where the Philvolcs[1] people were stationed,” he said. “When I took the picture, my heart didn’t stop, it beat so fast and my body was shaking.”
He said that during the major eruption, they were about 20 to 30 kilometers away from the mouth of the volcano, and suddenly were being pursued by tons of hot ash.

” So everybody jumped into our vehicles and I was trying to put on my gas masked when I saw a blue pick-up ahead of that beautiful wall of gray,” Garcia said. “I opened the door and tried shooting the picture with my 50mm lens but it was too tight, so I decided to change the lens and used the 24mm instead and made sure my setting was correct and shot eight frames.
He said they finally outran the hot ash, and “although I had only eight shots, I rewound the entire roll of film, keeping it safe in my pocket.”

They spent more days documenting the aftermath of the major eruption before going back to Manila. He called a friend to process the film.

“I went straight to the airport international cargo and shipped the negatives to Time Magazine office in New York. The following week, the Mt. Pinatubo picture ran in a two-page Time Magazine spread,” Garcia said.
Time, Newsweek, and Asiaweek all included the picture in the 1991 great images of the year. In 1992, the picture won first place in the nature and environment category in the World Press Photo competition held in Amsterdam.

So far Garcia is the only Filipino photographer to have won the World Press photo competition. In year 2001, the National Geographic Magazine published a book called “100 Best Pictures,” which included Garcia’s Mt. Pinatubo photograph.
Also in 2001, Time published a book called “Time: Great Images of the 20th Century” featuring powerful images as Ali’s knockdown of Sonny Liston, the US Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, the fall of Saigon and the JFK assassination.
Garcia’s photograph was there too.

” When I took the pictures, I was praying hard that I got the right shot,” Garcia said. “I knew we might die and before I die, I wanted to tell a story using my camera.”

[Davis Knowlton]

Thanks, LD. Interesting story. I was in Manila when it blew and never got up to Angeles until the next day. Incredible devastation.

[Latindancer]

He was damn lucky......and perhaps more than a little crazy to go there.

A pyroclastic flow (also known scientifically as a pyroclastic density current) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and rock (collectively known as tephra), which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h (450 mph). The gas can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F). Pyroclastic flows normally hug the ground and travel downhill, or spread laterally under gravity. Their speed depends upon the density of the current, the volcanic output rate, and the gradient of the slope.

Even on flat ground, speeds are typically greater than 80 km per hour, pyroclastic flows knock down, shatter, bury or carry away nearly all objects and structures in their way.


Pyroclastic flows that contain a much higher proportion of gas to rock are known as "fully dilute pyroclastic density currents" or pyroclastic surges. The lower density sometimes allows them to flow over higher topographic features such as ridges and hills. They may also contain steam, water and rock at less than 250 °C (482 °F); these are called "cold" compared with other flows.

Most pyroclastic flows are around one to ten cubic kilometres and travel for several kilometres. Flows usually consist of two parts: the basal flow hugs the ground and contains larger, coarse boulders and rock fragments, while an extremely hot ash plume lofts above it because of the turbulence between the flow and the overlying air, admixes and heats cold atmospheric air causing expansion and convection.

Testimonial evidence from the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, supported by experimental evidence, shows that pyroclastic flows can cross significant bodies of water. One flow reached the Sumatran coast as much as 48 km (30 mi) away.

A 2006 documentary film, Ten Things You Didn't Know About Volcanoes, demonstrated tests by a research team at Kiel University, Germany, of pyroclastic flows moving over water. When the reconstructed pyroclastic flow (stream of mostly hot ash with varying densities) hit the water two things happened: The heavier material fell into the water, precipitating out from the pyroclastic flow and into the liquid; The temperature of the ash caused the water to evaporate, propelling the pyroclastic flow (now only consisting of the lighter material) along at an even faster pace than before on a bed of steam.


During some phases of the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat, pyroclastic flows were filmed about 1 km offshore. These show the water boiling as the flow passed over it. The flows eventually built a delta which covered about 1 km2.

A pyroclastic surge killed volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft and 41 other people on Mount Unzen, in Japan, on June 3, 1991. The surge started as a pyroclastic flow and the more energised surge climbed a spur on which the Kraffts and the others were standing; it engulfed them, and the corpses were covered with about 5 mm of ash

[Boon Mee]

Texas squirrel eating a snake, bones and all.

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A gif made from photos taken by new Himawari 8, a japanese weather satellite in geostationary orbit.

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The battered remains of a Norman Knight are uncovered at Hereford Cathedral in the UK.

The Norman Knight in repose.



The battered remains of a medieval man uncovered at a famous cathedral hint that he may have been a Norman knight with a proclivity for jousting.

The man may have participated in a form of jousting called tourney, in which men rode atop their horses and attacked one another, in large groups, with blunted weapons.

The man was about 45 years or older when he died, according to a bone analysis. He was buried in a stone-lined grave, a type of grave that was used between the 12th and 14th centuries, the researchers said.

Four of the man's ribs showed healed fractures that may have occurred simultaneously, suggesting a single instance of trauma, researchers wrote in the pathology report. Another four ribs were in the process of healing, indicating that the man was still recovering from the injuries when he died. The other two damaged ribs also show evidence of trauma, and his left lower leg has an unusual twisting break, one that could have been caused by a direct blow or a rolled ankle, according to the report.

In addition, the man had lost three of his teeth during his lifetime. A chemical analysis of his other teeth that matched different isotopes (a variation of an element) to foods and water samples from different geological locations showed that the man likely grew up in Normandy and moved to Hereford later in life, Boucher said.

"Tourney, the true form of jousting, is open combat between large groups of people in fields — basically, a mock battle," Boucher said. "They just laid into each other with blunted weapons, which is another reason we think he might be a knight, because none of the wounds to him are caused by sharp weapons. They're all caused by blunt-force trauma."

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Plankton

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