The amazing and cool photo thread

[Wiegert]

Speaking of building bypasses:

After homeowners refuse to relocate for demolition, public road is built with their house smack dab in the middle. In Wenling, Zhejiang, China

 

[Crash]

Solid, what's the name and location of that set of stairs?

 

[Beerz]

 

[Solid Lifters]

Solid, what's the name and location of that set of stairs?

Don't really know. I think it's in China, though.

 

[tomhart9]

Solid, what's the name and location of that set of stairs?

Searched the image in Google, it's the "Taihang mountain stairs" Daily Mail article

 

[Sprite]

Sometimes a morning sky can be a combination of serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise as viewed from a snowy slope in eastern Switzerland. Quiet clouds blanket the above scene, lit from beneath by lights from the village of Trübbach. A snow covered mountain, Mittlerspitz, poses dramatically on the upper left, hovering over the small town of Balzers, Liechtenstein far below. Peaks from the Alps can be seen across the far right, just below the freshly rising Sun. Visible on the upper right are the crescent Moon and the bright planet Venus. Venus will remain in the morning sky all month, although it will likely not be found in such a photogenic setting.

Image Credit & Copyright: David Kaplan
Explanation from: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110202.html

 

[Solid Lifters]

Searched the image in Google, it's the "Taihang mountain stairs" Daily Mail article

Nice to know! Thanks.

 

[dudeondacouch]

...

 

[Solid Lifters]

Agreed. It's now my desktop.

 

[terminator363]

Agreed. It's now my desktop.

It's not big enough to fit my monitor.

(Edit: Is there a higher res version out there?)

 

[Sprite]

It's not big enough to fit my monitor.

(Edit: Is there a higher res version out there?)

I couldn't find one, I'd like it also.

 

[Horde_R35]

Please some one say if this is shopped. (even if the dog was injected, i think its too big).

 

[Jedi2016]

Nah, I've heard of that. Some kind of genetic disorder. The person in the picture on the left may be small, as well.

 

[djinline]

It's not big enough to fit my monitor.

(Edit: Is there a higher res version out there?)

Here's a 4255x2830 resolution image. Should be enough. 👍

 

[GregTheStig]

The Brooklyn Bridge in the fog on October 22, 2012 by mudpig, on Flickr



Rainbow Maker by mvonraesfeld, on Flickr


If you're looking for two really good photographers to follow on Flickr, I'd recommend them ^

 

[Patrick]

 

[Minty]

Linky


Still impresses me what my cell phone camera can capture.

 

[Jedi2016]

here's a 4255x2830 resolution image. should be enough. 👍

bigger!!!!

 

[G.T.Ace]

www.steffenjahn.com

 

[CodeRedR51]

When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above.

Seismologists say that the "flower" at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later.

"You never think about an earthquake as being artistic -- it's violent and destructive," Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. "But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created."

 

[Rykon Zero]

Ah, yes, I remember that one. Innocently eating my cereal, when the ground started shaking.

Kept eating my cereal.

I can imagine an earthquake would make that sort of figure.

 

[Madertus]

Innocently eating my cereal, when the ground started shaking.

Kept eating my cereal.

That's probably the manliest thing I've ever read.
<- both for you.

 

[dudeondacouch]

When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above.

Seismologists say that the "flower" at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later.

"You never think about an earthquake as being artistic -- it's violent and destructive," Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. "But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created."

Then seismologists are idiots.

There's no way the outer design was formed after the inner.

 

[CodeRedR51]

And you're smart enough to know this, how?

 

[dudeondacouch]

Because the inner design is on top.

Imagine if someone spilled a bucket of paint, let it dry, and then spilled a bucket of a different color on top of it. Would there be any question as to which color went down first?

 

[MatskiMonk]

More info here if you want to take it up with them... http://www.earthquakerose.com/

 

[CodeRedR51]

Ah, didn't know the "rose" was made by that pendulum thing.

 

[dudeondacouch]

More info here if you want to take it up with them... http://www.earthquakerose.com/

Much better description there. 👍

 

[Beerz]

Meanwhile, in Singapore...

 

[PeterJB]

The tallest man in China with the fattest man in China: