The Guardian Readers’ Travel Photography Competition: September 2016
“This was taken amid the beech trees at the Dark Hedges in Antrim, Northern Ireland (a filming location for Game of Thrones), early on an August morning. I was fortunate to be there on a foggy morning as it really added to the overall mood of the image”. (Photo by Declan Keane/The Guardian) Continue reading »
September 25: This Day in Photos from the Past
Holding one of the rockets designed to speed into the stratosphere at 700 miles an hour in search of new meteorological data, Dr. Robert Goddard, second from right, with a few of his assistants (unidentified), is pictured in Roswell, N.M., September 25, 1935. (Photo by AP Photo)
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September 23-24: These Days in Photos from the Past
A steel worker rests on a girder at the 86th floor of the new Empire State Building during construction in New York City, September 24, 1930. The tower of the Chrysler Building can be seen in background, left. (Photo by AP Photo) Continue reading »
September 21-22: These Days in Photos from the Past
Two female holidaymakers relax on an unidentified beach of England, September 21, 1940, as a soldier, eyes straight ahead, stands guard at a barrier built as a defense against possible invasion by Germany. (Photo by AP Photo)
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September 18: This Day in Photos from the Past
Two boys playfully slug it out with one boxing glove each Wednesday September 18, 1996 along a flooded street at northern Manila suburb of Kalookan following heavy rains overnight. Boxing is slowly becoming popular here following the silver medal finish of a Filipino light flyweight boxer in the Atlanta Olympics. (Photo by Alberto Marquez/AP Photo) Continue reading »
September 17: This Day in Photos from the Past
British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, rides aboard a British tank at Fallingbostel, West Germany, September 17, 1986. Mrs. Thatcher was making an official visit to British forces. (Photo by Joel Fink/AP Photo)
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September 16: This Day In Photos From The Past
Salma Karim, 4, awaits a medical examination and diagnosis at the Saddam Children’s Hospital in Baghdad Monday, September 16, 1996. Due to the international economic blockade, Iraqi hospitals have little medicine and many curable illnesses go untreated. The United States has blocked a U.N. resolution allowing food and medicine in exchange for Iraqi oil. On Aug. 31, Saddam Hussein sent soldiers into the U.S.-protected Kurdish “safe haven” in northern Iraq to oust an Iranian-backed faction in favor of another Kurdish group allied with Baghdad. (Photo by John Moore/AP Photo)
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September 15: This Day In Photos From The Past
This is the scene at the re-opening of New York’s Studio 54, September 15, 1981. (Photo by G. Paul Burnett/AP Photo)
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September 10-11: These Days In Photos From The Past
Looters scramble in Philipsburg, St. Maarten, Sunday September 10, 1995 for goods in the Ram’s department store, which contained mostly food and liquor. No attempts are currently being made by Dutch troops on the island to stop the looting, since few relief supplies have arrived in St. Maarten, which was ravaged on Tuesday by Hurricane Luis. (Photo by John McConnico/AP Photo)
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September 8: This Day In Photos From The Past
Evel Knievel parachutes down in a rocket after an ill-fated attempt to soar across the Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls, Idaho, on September 8, 1974. The jump failed when the parachute on his rocket malfunctioned, opening prematurely. Knievel was uninjured. (Photo by AP Photo)
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September 7: This Day In Photos From The Past
Prince Georges County police carry an integrationist to a waiting patrol car in Bowie, Maryland on September 7, 1963 after he and 11 other persons were arrested and charged with trespassing at the sales office of a housing development here. The 12 lay down on the floor of the office of Levitt & Sons, developer of Bolair, and refused to move. They were protesting the firm’s refusal to sell homes to African Americans. (Photo by AP Photo/WAS)
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Kate Moss and Saskia de Brauw for Vogue France, September 2012
Kate Moss and Saskia de Brauw for Vogue France in photographs by Mert & Marcus. Continue reading »
Katy Perry for L’Officiel Paris, September 2012
Singer Katy Perry for L’Officiel Paris in photographs by Cuneyt Akerglou. Continue reading »
Salma Hayek for Vogue Germany, September 2012
Photographed by Alexi Lubomirski, Salma Hayek properly wears an stunning Gucci dress – part of her husband’s multinational holding company – looking stylish, beautiful and very regal. An interesting choice for the magazine that normally goes for super-models, – specially for the most important issue of the year – but occasionally falls for Hollywood superstars as an exciting twist that seems to be pretty appropriate for this occasion, as the latin superstar and red carpet queen looks sensually and stylishly majestic on this shoot. Continue reading »
