MEANWHILE IN NORWAY Photograph by MACIEJ DUCZYNSKI PHOTOGRAPHY Maciej Duczynski took this incredible photograph of the stunning Lake Strynevatn from Hjelle, Norway. Hjelle lies at the eastern end of Lake Strynevatn, midway between Stryn Sommerskisenter (20 km) and Stryn township (27 km). Jostedal Glacier National Park Centre is just 5 km away…
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Photograph courtesy of HOM Sotheby’s International Realty Set on 30-acres of oceanfront property, the Montage Laguna Beach Resort features 28 private residences in addition to the 250-room resort. The 5-bedroom, 8,400 sq. ft. monster bungalow featured in this post is listed at a mind-boggling $32.5 million USD (that’s $3,869 a sq ft!). The…
JAW-DROPPING 3D FRESCO BY ANDREA POZZO Photograph by BRUCE MCADAM Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave…
Photograph via UNURTH Street Art Banksy has gone on a tear to close out 2011, with new pieces popping up in Bristol and Liverpool since late November. Unurth posted the latest works earlier this week (a great site for street art btw). It’s not his best work but entertaining nonetheless. The Sifter is still…
ROALD AMUNDSEN’S TEAM BECOME FIRST PEOPLE TO REACH THE SOUTH POLE – DECEMBER 14, 1911 The first recorded humans to reach the Geographic South Pole were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911. Amundsen named his camp Polheim and the entire plateau surrounding the Pole King Haakon…
THE DEFINITION OF EXTREME Photograph by MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading to Germany’s highest mountain, the 9,718-ft. (2,962 m) Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on Aug. 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 3,264-ft. (995 m) rope to break his…
Photograph via Remax Elite Collection The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre. The islands lie…
THE GREAT DESCENT Photograph by CHRIS MCLENNAN Posted this weekend on Reddit, a TinEye search revealed the photographer to be Chris McLennan, a travel, adventure and tourism photographer (check out his site, his work is awesome!). This stunning shot was taken at the beautiful Waitomo Caves in New Zealand. The Waitomo Caves…
Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the…
THE MIGHTY GREAT WHITE SHARK Photograph by DAVID LITCHFIELD Photographer David Litchfield took this incredible photograph of cage divers confronting a massive great white shark on the Isla de Guadalupe. The shot was one of the finalists of National Geographic’s annual photo contest. It’s hard to tell how big this shark is,…
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