Category: PICTURE OF THE DAY

January 16, 2012 at 4:47 pm

Picture of the Day: Gorgeous Skeleton Pens by Montblanc

Picture of the Day: Gorgeous Skeleton Pens by Montblanc

GORGEOUS SKELETON PENS BY MONTBLANC Photograph by MONTBLANK PEN LOVER -ma0ca- Check out these drop-dead gorgeous ‘skeleton pens’ by Montblanc. Don’t know too much about these beyond the fact that they are special limited editions pens and undoubtedly very expensive. Montblanc’s website offers the following: The highly sophisticated art of skeletonising, a…

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January 13, 2012 at 5:25 pm

Picture of the Day: The Mighty Flatirons of Boulder, Colorado

Picture of the Day: The Mighty Flatirons of Boulder, Colorado

THE MIGHTY FLATIRONS OF BOULDER, COLORADO Photograph via Reddit The Flatirons are rock formations near Boulder, Colorado. There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south (First through Fifth, respectively) along the east slope of Green Mountain, and the term “The Flatirons” sometimes refers to these five alone. Numerous additional…

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January 12, 2012 at 5:17 pm

Picture of the Day: Water Bubble Reflection in Zero Gravity

Picture of the Day: Water Bubble Reflection in Zero Gravity

WATER BUBBLE REFLECTION IN ZERO GRAVITY Photograph by NASA Astronaut Clayton Anderson watches as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission. Note that his image in the bubble is upside down because the bubble refracted the light. (Taken April 12, 2010). [Source] via…

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January 11, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Picture of the Day: New Zealand the Beautiful

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…

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January 10, 2012 at 4:17 pm

Picture of the Day: The Life of a Trader

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.…

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January 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm

Picture of the Day: Crater Lakes in the Albertine Rift of Africa

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…

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January 8, 2012 at 6:08 pm

Picture of the Day: Solar Eclipse at Sunset

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…

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January 6, 2012 at 4:55 pm

Picture of the Day: The Art of Ski Jumping

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…

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January 5, 2012 at 4:56 pm

Picture of the Day: Chicago Rush Hour, 1909

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 …

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January 4, 2012 at 4:58 pm

Picture of the Day: One Year in One Image

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…

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