Category: PICTURE OF THE DAY
Picture of the Day: Purple Haze over Edinburgh Castle
PURPLE HAZE OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE Photograph by Scott Hutcheson (SMHutch Photography on Flickr) In this amazing shot by Scott Hutcheson, we see a hazy purple twilight over Edinburgh Castle. In the picture comments on Flickr Scott says the purple colour was completely natural. Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the…
Picture of the Day: The Dine-In Theater at Disney World
THE DINE-IN THEATER AT DISNEY WORLD Photograph by Joe Penniston (Express Monorail on Flickr) The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater restaurant in Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park (one of the four theme parks that make up Disney World) serves American cuisine for lunch and dinner. Like a night at the old drive-ins, servers…
Picture of the Day: Turbines Above the Fog
TURBINES ABOVE THE FOG Photograph by iron_mike34 on Reddit Redditor and iron worker iron_mike34 took this amazing shot from a height of approximately 325 ft, as he stands atop the nacelle, which is the cover housing that contains all of the generating components in a wind turbine. This includes things like…
Picture of the Day: Subterranean Super-Columns in Japan
SUBTERRANEAN SUPER-COLUMNS IN JAPAN Photograph by Dddeco You are looking at the world’s largest underground flood water diversion facility. The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also known as the G-Cans Project, is an underground water infrastructure project in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan. It was built to prevent overflow of the city’s…
Picture of the Day: Preacher’s Pulpit, Norway
PREACHER’S PULPIT, NORWAY Photograph by John & Tina Reid | NomadicVision.com In this beautiful photograph by travel photographers John & Tina Reid, we see the view rewarded to those who make the hike to Preikestolen, a massive 604 metre (1982 feet) cliff in Forsand, Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff…
Picture of the Day: 84 Million Stars in One Image
84 MILLION STARS IN ONE IMAGE Photograph by ESO/VVV Consortium/Ignacio Toledo/Martin Kornmesser Using a gigantic nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This…
Picture of the Day: A Sea of Sunflowers in Japan
A SEA OF SUNFLOWERS IN JAPAN Photograph by Jason Arney In this incredible capture by photographer Jason Arney we see a dazzling field of sunflowers in Daisetsuzan National Park (Taisetsuzan) in Hokkaido, Japan. Jason submitted this photo to Gizmodo’s Summer Shooting Challenge, taking home first prize for this amazing shot. The…
