THE OLD CITY OF SANA’A AT NIGHT Photograph via Reddit Sana’a, also spelled “Sanaa”, is the capital of Yemen and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. At an altitude of 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), it is also one of the highest capital cities in the world. Sana’a has…
OUTDOOR JACUZZI ON THE MATTERHORN Photograph via Iglu-Dorf.com This outdoor jacuzzi is part of the Igloo Village, ‘Iglu-Dorf‘, in Zermatt. Guests sleep at an altitude of 2,727 meters (8.946 ft) at the Gornergrat, right next to Switzerland’s most famous mountain, the mighty Matterhorn. The Igloo village typically opens up in December with…
MAELSTROM AT KAUAI, HAWAII Photograph by PATRICK SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into…
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON Photograph by PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as “Spring Festival,” since the spring season in Chinese calendar starts with lichun, the first solar term in a Chinese calendar year. It marks the…
CAPSIZED CRUISE SHIP COSTA CONCORDIA FROM SPACE Photograph by DIGITALGLOBE.COM In this startling satellite image by DigitalGlobe, the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia can be seen near the island of Giglio in Italy on January 17, 2012. As of today, search has been suspended after the ship slipped. Twenty-three people are still…
SERENITY NOW Photograph by ZAK NOYLE for SURFER MAGAZINE Sun, water, wave, surf. Oh and a rainbow. This gorgeous photograph by Zak Noyle was the winner of Surfer Magazine’s ‘photo of the year’ and it’s easy to see why. The image was taken with a fisheye lens at Teahupoo in Tahiti. The…
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…
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…
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…
BEAUTIFUL BERN FROM ABOVE Photograph via loki010 on Reddit The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of Switzerland, and, with (as of December 2010) a population of 133,920, the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population…
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