US PARATROOPERS Photograph by The U.S. Army U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cory Boatwright, 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., videotapes U.S. Soldiers assigned to 82nd Airborne Division as they parachute from a C-17 Golbemaster III aircraft during a joint forcible entry exercise (JFEX) on Fort Bragg, N.C., June 17,…
TOGETHER WE CAN REBUILD Photograph by AP Photo/NEXCO East These two photos show a road devastated by the March 11 massive earthquake (left) and the same road after restoration in Naka, Japan. The highway company restored the 150-meter section of the highway linking Tokyo and the quake-damaged Ibaraki prefecture in six days. The…
LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS! Photograph by PROSPECT MAGAZINE A young boy accepts a trophy at the third annual Malmesbury Abbey Skate Competition. The event takes place at the Abbey Skate Park located in the Benedictine Monastery, transforming the space into a series of ramps and rails for the skating faithful. via Prospect…
CATACOMBS OF PARIS Photograph by STEPHEN ALVAREZ Photographer’s Description:In a sandy chamber known as the “beach,” a wave rolls across a wall painted (and repainted) by cataphiles in the style of Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Such works can take hundreds of hours—the painting but also the carrying in of supplies. via National Geographic…
SANDOSAURUS REX! Photograph by JOHN O’NEILL Dinosaur sand sculptures at the Sand Sculpting Australia “Dinostory” exhibit held at Frankston, Victoria, Australia. The sculpture was the created with the combined efforts of an international team of sand sculpting artists: Karen Fralich (Canada) – children playing in foreground; Peter Bignell (Tasmania, Australia) – Triceratops skull…
DIE FOR THE MONEY Artwork by SCOTT CAMPBELL Scott Campbell, Skull Cube, 2010, Cut US currency, 9 x 6 x 4 inches Scott Campbell is a sort of semiotician, studying the signs, symbols, and text, commonly found in tattoo culture. His work investigates a familiar lowbrow vernacular, and points out the irony…
THE BATTLE RAGES ON Photograph by GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) via The Big Picture – Libya: UN air strikes aid rebels
A VERY CLOSE CALL Photograph by ROBERT W. MADDEN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Plane Hits Truck, Guatemala, 1976: “Buffeted by crosswinds, a rescue plane crashes into a truck, while trying to land on a mountain highway near Sanarate. Miraculously no one suffered serious injury.” —From “Earthquake in Guatemala,” June 1976, National Geographic magazine …
LOVERS BRIDGE IN PARIS Photograph by PHILIPPE GARAVEL In the romantic capital of the world, lovers fasten padlocks to the railings of the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris. The couple then toss the keys into the Seine river below, symbolizing their eternal love
GOOD BOY!!! Photograph by MICHEL BELLEKENS Fetched. via Michel Bellekens on 1x.com
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