Vocklabruck Platform in the Middle of a Lake
There’s a wonderfully picturesque spot in Vöcklabruck, Austria where visitors are able to sit in the middle of a pond without getting wet. The scenic landscape includes a path leading down to a hollowed out circular area where people can take a seat and relax amongst nature. It’s a surreal journey along the gradual ramp to the observational platform as the water level gains height either side. Once in the resting area, depending on perspective, visitors seem like they’re wading in the lake without a drop of water on them.
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Feather Paintings by Julie Thompson
Many people have seen feathers as decorative items before. Today, ostrich, peacock and bird of paradise feathers can be seen in haute couture and in the costumes of indigenous peoples. They can be colorful and spectacular in their own right, but how much more stunning might they be when used as canvases for artists, eager to demonstrate their talent for the unusual? Alaskan-born and -bred artist Julie Thompson is an astounding exponent of this incredible art form.
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Armour for Animals by Jeff de Boer
Jeff de Boer is a Calgary-based multi-media artist with an international reputation for producing some of the world’s most original and well-crafted works of art. With an emphasis on metal, he is best known for such bodies of work as suits of armour for cats and mice, armour ties and sword-handled briefcases, rocket lamps and pop culture ray guns, and exquisite high art, abstract works called exoforms.
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Love?
Game park ranger Chad Cocking took this photograph of a young leopard resting its paw on an impala it had just caught in Kruger National Park, SA. Unfortunately the friendship was not to last and the leopard eventually got bored with its own game and ate the impala. (Chad Cocking/Barcroft Media)
Zombies Protest Against EU-India Trade Agreements in Brussels
A zombie flash-mob protests in front of the EU Parliament in Brussels against possible EU-India free trade agreements that could endanger access to medicines. (REUTERS)
44ft Bicycle
A bicycle measuring 44ft has been built in Indonesia – out of rusting iron pipe. Seating just one person, the elongated bike was hand crafted out of 84 feet of piping in Blawe village, Kediri, East Java, Indonesia. (Arief Priyono / Barcroft Media)
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Arizona’s Antelope Canyon
Arizona’s Antelope Canyon taken by amateur photographer Gregory Boratyn. (Gregory Boratyn/Rex Features)
