Photo of the Day: Cosplay Couple Transform Into Their Characters In Mexico
Jose Luis Mendez Luna and his wife Jessica Legorreta pose with their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes in their dining room on Wednesday (Christian Palma / AP). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Double Vision
Two F16 jets of the US Air Force Thunderbirds perform a back-to-back mirror flight during ‘Constanta Air Show 2011’ at Mihail Kogalniceanu airfield, near Constanta, Romania, 250 km from Bucharest, 08 June 2011. The US Thunderbirds squadron performed their aerobatic formation and solo flying stunts for the second time in Romania. (Robert Ghement/European Pressphoto Agency) Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Grounded
A plane is seen covered in volcanic ash in San Carlos de Bariloche airport, southern Argentina, Tuesday June 7, 2011. The wind carried volcanic ash across the Andes to Argentina resulting in the closing of six airports, and the cancellation of flights in the capital city. The Puyehue volcano, dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday. (AP Photo/Alfredo Leiva). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Trash Pile
A Romanian farm boy throws another case of cucumbers onto a huge pile waiting to be taken away as waste at an agriculture facility in Popesti Leordeni, near Bucharest, Romania 06 June 2011. Romanian vegetable producers are suffering from loss of sales as a consequence of the EHEC bacteria. Today the workers from Leordeni faility were throwing the last three days fresh cucumbers production, amounting to 1.500 tons, despite the E. coli lab analyses showing negative . The E. coli outbreak centered in northern Germany has spread to 11 other countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Romanian farmers are asking the government to find a way of compensating them due to the losses caused by E. coli hysteria. EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT. Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Is This Art Or Rubbish?
When park workers removed this graffiti-covered discarded mattress, they had no idea they were dismantling a piece of modern art worth £1,000. The apparent rubbish was a work by Johnny Doe as part of the Art Free For All exhibition in Alexandra Park, north London. One of the organisers realised the workers’ mistake in time and stopped them before they reached the tip. Photo credits: Eddie Mulholland/The Telegraph.
Photo of the Day: Surrounded
An Egyptian policeman tries to protect a female reporter as thugs are trying to attack her during a protest in Tahrir square, Cairo, Egypt, 03 June 2011. Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir square calling for speeding up the pace of democratic transition. EPA/MOHAMED OMAR. Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: I’m Watching You
The MTA’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is home to a pair of Peregrine Falcons and their chicks. The Verrazano and the Throgs Neck Bridge were the first two NYC nesting places for Peregrines, which were listed as endangered in the 1980s. Credit: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Click to zoom.
Not in Your Face
A social typology project by photographer Susan A. Barnett.
In the series “Not In Your Face” the t-shirt is starkly evident but the photographs are not about the t-shirt per se. They are about self-identity and validation. Each one of these people reveal a part of themselves that advertises their hopes, ideals, likes, dislikes, political views, and personal mantras. They wear a kind of badge of honor that says “yes, I belong to this group not the other.”
By photographing from the back these pictures try to challenge the time-honored tradition of a portrait being of the face and tests whether body type, dress and demeanor can tell us just as much as a facial expression might. The back view would seemingly make these people anonymous but we can see their humanity emerge. Here the t-shirt wearer knowing the photographer was only taking the shirt, seems to self-consciously relax and they show their trust and vulnerability.
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Photo of the Day: Way Up In The Sky
Adam Rein of Altaeros Energies holds a prototype airborne power turbine shroud at Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, Massachusetts, US. Several companies are pursuing designs that can capture power from some of the most powerful winds on earth, blowing thousands of feet above the world’s tallest turbines. Picture: (AP /Altaeros Energies)
Photo of the Day: A Memorial Day Look at Afghanistan
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. James Weber assists Staff Sgt. Amber Goedde in donning a bomb suit, during an operations check to maintain proper functionality of the suit at Forward Operating Base Azizullah, Afghanistan, May 6, 2011. Weber is an explosive ordnance disposal technician deployed from the 11th Civil Engineer Squadron, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, and Goedde is an EOD technician deployed from the 23rd Civil Engineer Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. (Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester/U.S. Army/theAtlantic). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Crystal Cave
The blue Crystal Cave ice cave is illuminated by the evening sun in Svinafellsjokull in Skaftafell, Iceland. Created by the forces of the Vatnajokull ice cap in the south of the volcanic island, the deep blue cave was formed by the glacier meeting the coastline. The centuries-old ice that has come from the slopes of 6,921 feet tall Oaefajokull, Iceland’s tallest active volcano, has compressed all air out of the ice adding to the texture and colour of the cave. Picture: ORVAR ATLI THORGEIRSSON / BARCROFT MEDIA / The Telegraph. Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Amar Bharti, the Man that Raised His Arm 30 Years Ago and Never Lowered It
Until the early seventies, Amar Bharti was a senior shipping clerk in New Delhi. He had the comfortable trappings of the relatively well off Indian middle class. Married, with three children already grown, Amar Bharti made a decision. He handed in his notice at the office. He tied up all the loose ends of his life. He paid off the higher purchase agreements on his furniture and gave his car to his eldest son. Then he left his house. He left his wife and his children for ever. He walked away from everything he had spent his life building with nothing to his name but a bowl, two pieces of orange cloth and a metal trident.
Amar Bharti had decided to devote the rest of his life to Shiva. In time his beard grew long and his hair became matted into thick dreadlocks. Despite the harshness of his existence Amar Bharti felt that his spiritual quest was still weighed down by earthly comforts and pleasure. Three years after leaving his whole life behind, Amar Bharti made a second decision. He decided to raise his arm vertically in the air as if he was a small child begging to answer a call of nature. Once his arm was raised it was never to come down again. That was in 1973.
Photo of the Day: Roll Out the Red Carpet
A cleaning woman vacuums a red carpet as last preparations in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, prior to the arrival of US President Barack Obama to Poland, on 27 May 2011. US president Obama is on a two-day working visit to Poland. The main topics of Obama’s talks with Polish politicians are to cover economic issues, including shale gas, security and the democratisation process in Northern Africa. EPA/BARTLOMIEJ ZBOROWSKI. Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: A Man with a Cat on His Head
This man’s name is Charlie and the cat’s name is Nicolas. Charlie created value by adding Nicholas to the top of his head. They are walking together past the building in New York where former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan is held under house arrest after posting bail. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Photo of the Day: A Little Levity
A sign is seen in a devastated neighborhood in Joplin, Mo. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 123 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel/WSJ). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Volcano
Volcano on Onekotan Island, Russia. Click to zoom.
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Photo of the Day: Grimsvotn Volcano Erupts in Iceland
Erupting steam and ash interact with clouds above Grímsvötn volcano. Photographer Jóhann Ingi Jónsson traveled within 1 kilometer of the eruption site on the evening of May 22, 2011, to get these photos. Click to zoom.
Iceland’s most active volcano, Grímsvötn, erupted on Saturday for the first time since 2004, hurling a plume of steam and ash nearly 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the sky. People living next to the glacier where the Grímsvötn volcano burst into life were most severely affected, with ash blocking out the daylight and smothering buildings and vehicles. Iceland also closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights on Sunday, and aviation officials will be closely monitoring European airspace for the next few days. (Source: theAtlantic)
Photo of the Day: Living on Thin Ice
Beyond Cape Royds, Antarctica, home to the southernmost colony of penguins in the world, lies the Ross Sea, an extension of the Pacific Ocean that harbors more than one-third of the world’s Adélie penguin population and a quarter of all emperor penguins, and which may be the last remaining intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Credit: Andy Isaacson for The New York Times.
45°C – Modern Slaves of Dubai
“Higher, greater, more luxurious. If it was after Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al Maktoum – and it is – Dubai will become the world metropolis of architectural wonders and records. This is only possible to achieve with the sweat of a gigantic labour army from abroad. Hundredthousands of these foreign workers labour on the constructionsites for very low vages, live pent-up in tiny barracks and seperate from their families for many years.”
This is a photographic documentary, made by photographer Florian Büttner, is about the everyday-life of the men with the unity-coloured overalls. The men outside the lap of luxury, who exist in the shadows of the skyscrapers.
“They have been the cheapest on the market and the ones most driven to abandon their rights to make a living. Circumstances made them to what they are in my eyes. Modern slaves. Not taken by force like in the old days, but forced by their lives in the arms of the highest bidder for human resources. From roughly 1 million people living in Dubai, around 800.000 are or were foreign workers. This is a new dimension in the history of foreign labours and shows one aspect of globalisation.”
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Photo of the Day: Peregrine banding at University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Game Commission officer Doug Dunkerley, left, uses a small broom as a shield to deter the female peregrine falcon as fellow officer Beth Fife, not seen, retrieves young chicks from the falcons nest on the ledge of the 40th floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The peregrine falcon is listed on Pennsylvania endangered species, and the program monitoring the birds nesting has been in effect since since 2002. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Photo of the Day: Mississippi Floodwaters Roll South
A levee protects a home surrounded by floodwater from the Yazoo River on May 18, 2011 near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The flooded Mississippi River is forcing the Yazoo River to top its banks where the two meet near Vicksburg causing towns and farms upstream on the Yazoo to flood. (Scott Olson/Getty Images). Click to zoom.
Inside the Secret Colombian Drug Submarine
A narco submarine is a type of custom-made ocean-going self-propelled semi-submersible vessel built by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs. They are especially known to be used by Colombian drug cartel members to export cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, which is often then transported overland to the United States.
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Beach Bunny Bride
Model Kate Upton for Beach Bunny swimwear. Continue reading »
Elmer Duyvis
Very small, but attractive portfolio of Elmer Duyvis, graphic craftsman from Netherlands. Click images to zoom! Continue reading »
Victoria`s Secret Bombshell Summer 2011
Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel & Erin Heatherton in Bombshell Summer 2011 sexy collection. Continue reading »
