Photo Of The Day

saw this the other day in the reuters galleries, completely agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOAXrTrsOE

yes its a video but the final shot of the end product deserves picture of the day

Syrian girl mistakes telephoto lens for a weapon

Charles Emerson
(TIME LIGHTBOX)

A "nail house", the last building in the area, sits in the middle of a road under construction in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, April 10, 2015. According to local media, the owner of the house didn't reach an agreement with the local authority about compensation of the demolition. REUTERS/Stringer

Mentz!

Frank, conspiracy theorist, 1980, Speaker's Corner

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/16/soapbox-superstars-35-years-at-speakers-corner-in-pictures

Honourable mention:

pictures of the chilean volcano look unreal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-32425370

Nepal earthquake: killing 2500.

Could you not have linked that? It's not something I needed to see over my Cocoa @marcom

A tearful Beatle lover in Indianapolis on Sept. 4, 1964. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

@marcom zzz. Some decent manners haven't hurt anyone.

Unfortunately history has shown that @marcom wouldn't recognise good manners if they held the door open for him.

Ditchling, 2009

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http://www.society-magazine.fr/nepal-25-avril-2015/#g-1

A lot of you will know Maciej Dakowicz from his Cardiff After Dark series and his other street photography but this set show what a great photojournalist he is. The best shots from kathmandu that I have seen,

Spruce pollen in and on the Starnberger See (Lake Starnberg) in Bavaria.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/gelber-staub-im-raum-muenchen-fichten-im-liebesrausch-1.2474586

“David Wojnarowicz’s Untitled (Buffalo) is one of the decade’s most haunting artistic responses to the AIDS crisis. A photograph of an Old West diorama from a Washington, DC, museum, the work depicts stampeding buffalo plummeting off the edge of a cliff to certain death. Careening into the abyss, the sturdy animals tumble head over tail, propelled forward by their own considerable weight. One buffalo stands poised at the top of the cliff, with front hooves silhouetted against the open sky. He has seen the others drop but remains powerless before the inertia of the fall. Made in the wake of the artist’s HIV-positive diagnosis, Wojnarowicz’s image draws a parallel between the AIDS crisis and the state-sponsored purging of buffalo in the United States in the nineteenth century, reminding viewers of the outright neglect and marginalization that characterized the politics of HIV/AIDS.”

David Wrojnarowicz from Rimbaud in New York

^ Domestic cleaners working at Number 10. Minimun wage guaranteed.

The new Panama Canal

The Panama Canal can’t accommodate the gargantuan bulk carriers known as Capesize; no canal can. Yet, it needed to respond to the growth of the more modest ocean workhorses, the container ships that account for 60% of the world’s shipping – a great deal of it between China and the U.S. East Coast. Though a million vessels passed through Panama in the canal’s first 100 years, shipping – like globalization itself – operates on economies of scale. And the scale was outgrowing the canal. A ship 106 ft. (32 m) wide and 965 ft. (294 m) long – the largest ships able to cross the Panama Canal at the moment – can carry around 5,000 containers. Widen the beam to 160 ft. (49 m) and the length to 1,200 ft. (366 m) – the size of a ship that can fit in the new channel – and the container count rises to 13,000. If Panama didn’t make room, those new ships would reach America from China via the wider Suez, imperiling Panama’s surging national economy.
Photograph by George Steinmetz (@geosteinmetz) for TIME. See more images on LightBox.time.com and read Karl Vick’s full report on TIME.com. http://ift.tt/1EbrzH1

Then a colour picture of one of these gargantuan bulk carriers is due.