Amazing picture thread

[misskit]

The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the Ministry of Science and Technology, announced that a Thai photographer was among 10 winners of the seventh Earth & Sky Photo Contest organized by The World's At Night (TWAN.)

The contest aimed to make the public aware of an environmental issue of light pollution: the wasteful, wrongly directed portion of light which scatters in the night sky. It was open to both professional and amateur photographers.

In the “Beauty of the Night Sky” category, “Total Solar Eclipse from Svalbard” taken in Norway by astronomy communicator and photographer Thanakrit Santikunaporn from Thailand stood out for technical excellence, showing the entire sequence of the March 20, 2015, eclipse from the Arctic on 78-degree north latitude. He was among the 10 winners of the seventh Earth & Sky Photo Contest this year.

The contest received more than 1,000 entries from 57 countries and territories. The 10 winning photos were taken in Canada, China, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Norway, Russia and the United States.

[Luigi]

Hardly 'a photo'.

A timelapse image pasted onto a photo, perhaps. Unless the 20 or so people in the photo stood very bladdy still for an hour.

[Neo]

[Luigi]

The Pale Brown Dot. (My title. )



The first ever photo of a planet outside of our solar system.

http://www.space.com/33160-alien-pla...o-30c-vlt.html

[misskit]

Chañaral de Aceituno - Región de Atacama, Chile.

[Luigi]

U.S. troops of the 26th “Yankee” Division, billeted in an underground quarry at Chemin des Dames, carved some 500 engravings during six weeks in 1918. These include names, addresses, religious and patriotic symbols, and other images.

[birding]

Another chalk drawing.

[Chittychangchang]

[Eliminator]

So what are the last pictures about?

[Davis Knowlton]

^Was gonna ask the same thing....

[misskit]

Terraced farms sculpting the mountains in Yunnan, China.

[VocalNeal]

Falling levels in the Dead Sea?

[Luigi]

Aral Sea, more likely.





From Space, 1985.



2009

[Takeovers]

@Luigi

scary stuff. Can't green you.

[Little Chuchok]

[VocalNeal]

Lake Urmia. Same , same but different

[Latindancer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Urmia

[can123]

^Was gonna ask the same thing....

Refugees from Syria et al.

[BaitongBoy]

Terraced farms sculpting the mountains in Yunnan, China

Love that one, misskit...

[Luigi]

[BaitongBoy]

"Gives you wings"...

[Bogon]

^^ Even my little girl shouted out "photoshop" when she saw this!

[Luigi]

"photoshop"

Only a little bit-io.

[Neo]

[BaitongBoy]

Interesting...Wouldn't wanna stumble home drunk and get "crotched" by that...