Category: TRAVEL

August 8, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Snapshots of Life Captured on Google Street View

Snapshots of Life Captured on Google Street View

Featured previously, artist Jon Rafman’s ongoing Nine Eyes of Google Street View project continues to find fascinating glimpses of life, cityscapes and landscapes through the nine cameras (eyes) mounted to the tops of Google cars that are mapping the world. The ‘all-seeing’ eyes capture whatever moves through their frame every 10-20 meters. As Rafman…

Read More »

August 7, 2013 at 6:18 pm

Picture of the Day: The Waitomo Glowworm Caves

Picture of the Day: The Waitomo Glowworm Caves

THE WAITOMO GLOWWORM CAVES Photograph via waitomo.com The Waitomo Glowworm Caves attraction is a cave at Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand, known for its population of glowworms, Arachnocampa luminosa. This species is found exclusively in New Zealand. They are around the size of an average mosquito. This cave is…

Read More »

August 7, 2013 at 1:36 pm

Homemade Chairs on the Streets of China

Homemade Chairs on the Streets of China

Photograph by Michael Wolf Born in Germany and raised in the United States, Europe, and Canada; Michael Wolf began his career as a photojournalist, spending eight years working in Hong Kong for the German magazine Stern. After many years in the industry, Wolf quit photojournalism in the early 2000s, focusing strictly on fine-art photography…

Read More »

July 31, 2013 at 6:01 pm

Picture of the Day: This is France

Picture of the Day: This is France

THIS IS FRANCE Photograph by Anthony Gelot Facebook | Flickr | Google+ In this perfectly timed photograph by Anthony Gelot, we see the PAF (French Acrobatic Patrol) doing a flyover of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Bastille Day (French National Day, July 14), as a French flag waves in the…

Read More »

July 29, 2013 at 5:59 pm

Picture of the Day: The Crown of Palaces

Picture of the Day: The Crown of Palaces

THE CROWN OF PALACES Photograph by Francisco Martins The Taj Mahal (which literally translates to ‘crown of palaces’) is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as…

Read More »

July 29, 2013 at 3:33 pm

The 100 ft Waterfall Inside the Grand Canyon

The 100 ft Waterfall Inside the Grand Canyon

Located near Supai and within the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Grand Canyon National Park is Havasu Falls; a picturesque, hidden gem featuring a main chute that drops nearly 100 ft (30 m) over a vertical cliff into a large pool of blue-green water. Calcium carbonate and magnesium occur naturally in the waters of Havasu…

Read More »

July 27, 2013 at 9:33 am

Picture of the Day: The Abandoned Starlite Music Theater

Picture of the Day: The Abandoned Starlite Music Theater

The Abandoned Starlite Music Theater Photograph by Sébastien Barré Website | Flickr | Twitter In this incredible black and white photograph by Sébastien Barré, we see the inside of the abandoned Starlite Music Theater in Latham, New York. The building shut down in 1997, ending a 40 year run that saw entertainers…

Read More »

July 24, 2013 at 5:27 pm

Picture of the Day: The Cherry Blossom Express

Picture of the Day: The Cherry Blossom Express

THE CHERRY BLOSSOM EXPRESS Photograph courtesy of Jinhae Gunhang Cherry Blossom Festival Organizing Committee The Jinhae Gunhangje Cherry Blossom Festival is South Korea’s largest cherry blossom festival. It takes place from April 1st – April 10th each year and attracts over a million tourists from around the country and globe. The festival…

Read More »

July 24, 2013 at 4:27 pm

Photos from Mexico’s National Pyrotechnic Festival

Photos from Mexico's National Pyrotechnic Festival

Photograph by Alejandro Linares Garcia The National Pyrotechnic Festival is an annual event that takes place in Tultepec, Mexico. The festival promotes the country’s tradition of production and use of fireworks in honour of John of God, the patron saint of fireworks makers. Tultepec produces about half of all Mexico’s fireworks. The main event,…

Read More »

July 21, 2013 at 4:02 pm

Picture of the Day: Praise the Sun

Picture of the Day: Praise the Sun

PRAISE THE SUN Photograph by Anton Jankovoy | jankovoy.com In this perfectly timed sunset capture by Anton Jankovoy, we see the silhouette of a woman appearing to hold/praise the sun. The photo was taken in July of 2011 at Paradise Beach in Maharashtra, India. To get the shot Anton used a FL…

Read More »

Page 124 of 187