Category: PICTURE OF THE DAY
Picture of the Day: New Zealand the Beautiful
NEW ZEALAND THE BEAUTIFUL Photograph by TREY RATCLIFF @ STUCKINCUSTOMS.COM Photographer’s Description [Trey Ratcliff]: As far as the camera settings, this is the kind of shot you can get with something called “compression,” a method where you use a zoom lens and zoom in quite far. It takes images in the distance…
Picture of the Day: The Life of a Trader
THE LIFE OF A TRADER Photograph by AP Photo/JIN LEE A trader works at his trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 2, 2011 in New York. Note the big can of Arizona, looks like Arnold Palmer’s half lemonade, half iced tea to me! mmmmm delicious.…
Picture of the Day: Crater Lakes in the Albertine Rift of Africa
CRATER LAKES IN THE ALBERTINE RIFT OF AFRICA Photograph by JOEL SARTORE | PRINTS AVAILABLE Photographer’s Description: In a region bursting with people, a few big open spaces remain—like the Rift floor in Queen Elizabeth Park, pocked with crater lakes formed by volcanic explosions. If protected areas hadn’t been set aside in…
Picture of the Day: Solar Eclipse at Sunset
SOLAR ECLIPSE AT SUNSET Photograph by JANNE PYYKKO On July 11, 2010, after a long trek eastward across the southern Pacific Ocean, the Moon’s shadow reached landfall in South America. In a total solar eclipse close to sunset, silhouetted Moon and Sun hugged the western horizon, seen here above the Andes mountains…
Picture of the Day: The Art of Ski Jumping
THE ART OF SKI JUMPING Photograph via Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images A reflection of the Alps mountain “Nordkette” is seen in the ski googles of Anders Bardal of Norway during the training round of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event at the 60th Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Bergisel on January…
Picture of the Day: Chicago Rush Hour, 1909
CHICAGO RUSH HOUR, 1909 Photograph via brad153 on Reddit Proof that traffic sucks no matter what era you’re in. At least in today’s traffic we have smartphones and the Internet! Comments suggest this is the intersection of Dearborn and Randolph in downtown Chicago. via brad153 on Reddit …
Picture of the Day: One Year in One Image
ONE YEAR IN ONE IMAGE Photograph by EIRIK SOLHEIM Looking out from his window, photographer Eirik Solheim snapped an image of the same spot every hour for an entire year in 2010. He then cherry picked 3,888 of the best images and stitched them (with help from his readers) from left to…
