Photo Of The Day

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An Israeli soldier has sparked outrage by posting a photograph appearing to show the back of a Palestinian boy's head in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle on a social networking site.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/18/israeli-soldier-posts-instagram-palestinian

WTF Israel!

This is from 2013. Doesn't make it alright, but just sayin'.

Tell it to The Guardian, santos!

these are all amazing check them out...

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2014/06/27/inside-north-korea/#a=1

REUTERS

strong..

This is proving well worth a look

30 for 30: Slaying the Badger- Becoming "The Badger" - YouTube

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/windows-without-prison-bars/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Clark Little/Barcroft Media

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/jul/23/hawaii-spectacular-ocean-waves-clark-little-in-pictures

More here.

Thats Shifu Yan Lei. He may be Shaolin, but lives in London, mostly.

http://www.shifuyanlei.co.uk/

Sad.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/eastbourne-pier-fire-which-devastated-gradeiilisted-landmark-was-sparked-by-electoral-fault-9639364.html

These photos are too large to link but well worth a look.
West Africa's battle against Ebola.
http://www.nrc.nl/inbeeld/2014/08/01/west-afrika-strijdt-tegen-ebola/

Just a couple of Russian paratroops climbing a huge camp fountain in Moscow in their underwear

Fairly harrowing pictures of what I presume are Yezidi and Christians fleeing the IS

https://www.facebook.com/arininan/media_set?set=a.10152270736227409.1073741827.702827408&type=1

A child holds a sign during a vigil at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit for Michael Brown, who was shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson. Photograph: Zuma/Rex

Greg Noll in a showdown at Pipeline in Hawaii, 1964. All photographs: John Severson/Puka Puka/Damiani

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/18/breakers-boards-and-backflips-vintage-surfing-photography-in-pictures

Derek Ridgers

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/19/skinheads-derek-ridgers-photographs-in-pictures

sorry for spamming this thread...

Fan Ho

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/20/fan-ho-hong-kong-street-photography-in-pictures#start-of-comments

Not at all, both excellent choices.

http://i.instagram.com/jonlowenstein/

Some good stuff on the situation in Missouri here.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/6/1409998469839/14f77cc7-413d-4ba6-9f33-9ea1494764f4-620x413.jpeg
Pu this in a linky as some may find it slightly NSFW, but this picture just blew me away. Such a powerful shot - fun, defiant, innocent, almost a composed painting. Simply brilliant.

South African 'maidens' perform annual reed dance
Photographer Marco Longari captures the annual ceremony in Nongoma, South Africa, that celebrates and promotes respect for young women and preserves the custom of girls remaining virgins until marriage

^ that is good.

this is also in the guardian this morning..just think the sharpness and detail caught here is amazing..

Shams ul haq Qari/Barcroft India

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/30/photography-gaza-michael-brown-spike-lee-roger-federer#/?picture=445815437&index=18

wow

If you like football, these are really good... http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2014/sep/10/memory-lane-1980s-footballers-at-home-in-pictures

*Rino Petrosino/Mondadori *