Most Compelling Photographs of 2011
January 7, 2012 by admin
Filed under News, Places and Nature
Colourful photograph of a young boy throwing the ball
Photograph of Amy Winehouse at her last concert in Belgrade, Serbia
Kampala, Uganda, in May, during a ‘walk to work’ anti-government protest
12,000 colourful cross-county skiers during Engadin ski marathon in Switzerland
Kevin Spacey during the Berlin film festival
Lake Natron in Tanzania completely pink with hundreds of thousands of Lesser Flamingos
The rebels attempting to advance to the town centre at the battle for Sirte
Kissing couple picture during the Vancouver riots
The “mine” at the centre of Guatemala City
Space shuttle Endeavour lift off captured from a flight over northern Florida
Pakistan floods
Newmarket equine hospital- racing horse undergoing surgery
Egypt – 25 January revolution
Muammar Gaddafi
Soldiers of 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder in action
Women escapes the fire at Reeves corner in Croydon
9 World Famous Pits and Sinkholes
December 4, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured, Odd World, Places and Nature
Nature never stops to amaze us with its magnificent phenomenon just like these inexplicable holes in the ground. I bet that these holes make an excellent tourist attraction. Check out these unreal photographs and location descriptions of 9 of world’s most famous pits and sinkholes. (Courtesy of National Geographic)
1. Lisbon, Portugal, Sinkhole
A parked bus was the unfortunate “meal” of a sinkhole that opened up in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003.
“Anything that increases the flow of water into subsurface soil can speed up the formation of sinkholes’” ,Missouri State’s Gouzie said. In many cities, utility infrastructure such as sewer lines and fiber optic cables are buried in troughs filled with loose material, which can wash away over time. In some cases, a stretch of road can essentially become a concrete bridge over mostly empty space.
“It’s eventually not enough to hold the weight of the next truck over it,” Gouzie said.
2. Guatemala Sinkhole
Heavy rains from tropical storm Agatha likely triggered the collapse of a huge sinkhole in Guatemala on Sunday, seen above a few days afterward.
In the strictly geologic use of the word, a sinkhole happens when water erodes solid bedrock, carving an underground cavity that can then collapse. Many parts of the United States are at risk for that type of event.
The Guatemala sinkhole fits into a broader use of the term, which refers to any sudden slump of the ground’s surface. Instead of solid bedrock, much of Guatemala City rests atop a layer of loose, gravelly volcanic pumice that is hundreds of feet thick. And at least one geologist says leaking pipes—not nature—created the recent sinkhole.
Overall, the risk for repeat sinkholes in Guatemala City is high—but highly unpredictable.
3. Winter Park, Florida, Sinkhole
Best News Photos of 2010 – From National Geographic
December 4, 2010 by admin
Filed under News, Odd World, Places and Nature
Check out the best news photos that appeared on National Geographic website in 2010. We present these photos to you as measured by viewer interest—featuring a shocking sinkhole in Guatemala, fish with “hands,” volcanic lightning in Iceland, and a crocodile-elephant fight.
Sinkhole Pierces Guatemala
Yes, it’s real. See multiple views of the 30-story-deep sinkhole in Guatemala that swallowed a three-story building in June.
Fish With “Hands” Identified
Nine fish that use handlike fins to walk, rather than swim, off Australia were identified as new species in May.
Best of 10-Year Marine Census
Drawings which Enter Three Dimensional World
December 1, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Misc
Drawing is a kind of art that stirs ones imagination and bring you to an imaginary two dimensional world of the drawing paper. Sometimes drawing artist is so skill full that he can make such drawings that seemingly come alive, incredible drawings that enter three dimensional world. Most of these awesome 3D drawings were done by a 17-year-old Chilean artist Fredo. Check out our incredible collection of these creative drawings.
Top 50 Most Unbelievable – Yet Not Photoshopped Photographs
It is hard to be amazed by anything you see on the internet these days, when you know for a fact that any teenager with a computer and a copy of Adobe Photoshop or other photo manipulation software can put together a fake photograph in a couple of minutes. Which would make you completely right to believe that these photographs have been tempered with! Unfortunately, this means there’s a bunch of jaw-dropping images that the internet declared “FAKE!” the moment they appeared! But, you need to be broad minded and always mind that real life is, sometimes, stranger than Photoshopped imagery and some of the most unbelievable, jaw-dropping of those photographs are, in fact, REAL.
Girl With Two Heads – 100% Real
Does this boy have one or two girls? Guess again!
Abigail “Abby” Loraine Hensel and Brittany “Britty” Lee Hensel (born 7 March 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States), are dicephalic conjoined twins.
They have two spines which join at the pelvis. They have two stomachs, four lungs (two partially conjoined pairs), and two arms. (A third, underdeveloped and unusable arm between their heads was amputated in infancy.
Super Strong Women and Serpents
Women with serpents have some powerful aura around them. What do they have in common, you may wonder. Maybe it’s their mystical power, or their power of illusion and hypnotizing movement or it’s their ability to scare man. Whatever the case, it is really luring sight watching nice women in hugs of these mighty serpents. They may be just drawn illustrations, but these pictures look incredibly real and mighty. They create a perfect mixture of pleasure and pain, of warm and cold, of inviting and dangerous, but always strong and fearsome
(Image made by artists Mike Debalfo & Nei Ruffino, © credits)
