Category: TRAVEL

September 10, 2013 at 6:01 pm

Picture of the Day: Lone Chamois Above the Clouds

Picture of the Day: Lone Chamois Above the Clouds

LONE CHAMOIS ABOVE THE CLOUDS Photograph by RADO GADOCZI Website | Facebook | Google+ | Twitter In this beautiful capture by Rado Gadoczi, we see a lone Tatra chamois above the clouds in the High Tatras. The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains, are a mountain range along the border of northern…

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September 9, 2013 at 5:35 pm

Picture of the Day: Giant Staircase Art Made from Potted Plants

Picture of the Day: Giant Staircase Art Made from Potted Plants

GIANT STAIRCASE ART MADE FROM POTTED PLANTS Photograph by ANDREA ANNALORO Seen here is the famous 142-step staircase of Santa Maria del Monte in Caltagirone, Sicily, Italy. Each step is decorated with a different ceramic mosaic. Each year for about a month (typically May – June), potted plants are creatively arranged on…

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September 8, 2013 at 5:04 pm

Picture of the Day: The Gorge at Watkins Glen

Picture of the Day: The Gorge at Watkins Glen

THE GORGE AT WATKINS GLEN Photograph by Peter Rivera Watkins Glen State Park is located outside the village of Watkins Glen, New York, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes region. The centerpiece of the park is a 400-foot-deep (120 m) narrow gorge cut through rock by a…

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September 7, 2013 at 2:55 pm

Picture of the Day: San Francisco Airport from Above

Picture of the Day: San Francisco Airport from Above

SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT FROM ABOVE Photograph by Todd Lappin In this fantastic aerial photograph by Todd Lappin, we see the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as it looked in 2006. In the foreground is the original mid-1950’s terminal building and control tower. It was later used as the International Terminal and then…

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September 6, 2013 at 6:34 pm

Picture of the Day: Mist-Tanbul

Picture of the Day: Mist-Tanbul

MIST-TANBUL Photograph by Jürgen Horn and Michael Powell | for91days.com In this beautiful capture by Jürgen Horn and Michael Powell @ for91days.com, we see mist on the Golden Horn of Istanbul. The Golden Horn is an inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul and forming the natural harbor that has…

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September 5, 2013 at 5:39 pm

Picture of the Day: Iridescent Antarctica

Picture of the Day: Iridescent Antarctica

IRIDESCENT ANTARCTICA Photograph by DEVEN STROSS Website | 500px | Facebook In this phenomenal capture by Deven Stross, we see beautiful and rare Nacreous clouds over the NASA Radome at McMurdo Station on Ross Island in Antarctica. The photo was taken on August 20th, 2013. Nacreous clouds (from nacre, or mother of…

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September 4, 2013 at 12:51 pm

China’s Cliffside Plank Path Will Give you Goose Bumps

China's Cliffside Plank Path Will Give you Goose Bumps

Photograph by Harry Alverson Hua Shan is a mountain located near the city of Huayin in Shaanxi province, about 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Xi’an. It is one of China’s Five Great Mountains and has a long history of religious significance. Hua Shan is classified as having five main peaks, of which the…

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September 3, 2013 at 5:15 pm

Recreating Scenes from the Lion King While on an Actual Safari

Recreating Scenes from the Lion King While on an Actual Safari

Redditor and fellow Canadian Brandon Heuser recently took the trip of a lifetime to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. After returning to his hometown of Vancouver, he decided to rewatch Disney’s The Lion King. Throughout the film he caught himself saying, “hey I have a photo like that!”. Feeling inspired, he decided…

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August 29, 2013 at 5:21 pm

Picture of the Day: UFO Spotted in Seattle

Picture of the Day: UFO Spotted in Seattle

UFO SPOTTED IN SEATTLE Photograph by NothingI5True on Reddit Taken earlier this month by redditor NothingI5True, is a picture of the famous Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. He says he took the photo from his office window just as a heavy fog was rolling through. Another case of right place right time,…

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August 27, 2013 at 8:50 am

Student Converts School Bus into Mobile Home and Drives Around Country

Student Converts School Bus into Mobile Home and Drives Around Country

For his final project, graduate architecture student Hank Butitta bought an old school bus on Craigslist for $3,000. 15 weeks and $6,000 of improvements later, Hank and his two friends were ready to embark on a 5,000 mile (8,046 km) journey across the United States. The 225 sq. ft mobile home features reclaimed gym…

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