Photo Of The Day

One of our own ranks took this:

Sailing to Palau, on Boxing day morning. 25-30kts, broad reaching, and surfing in a following sea, with full sail! 10-12.5kts of boat speed, for the whole day.

Samuel Doman

Fuckin hell, that's good going!

Ice Climbing at Wrangel st. Elias NP, Alaska, 2009.

One of our own ranks took this:

Image is broken . Can you repost?

South Vietnamese troops and U.S. advisers rest near Binh Gia, 1965.

Horst Faas / Associated Press

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dy8i59MLNXA/UTuWhbpGf4I/AAAAAAAAC0s/6aVQcRNO47M/s1600/Hans-Georg+Henke+-+15+Year+Old+German+Soldier.jpg

A fifteen year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries tears of defeat after being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany.

3rd April 1945

John Florea / Keystone / Getty Images

awesome

Tony Ray-Jones

from: http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/only-in-england-photographs-by-tony-ray-jones-and-martin-parr

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/copyrightWrapper/watermark.php?display=true&image=https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-historical-moments/must-see-black-and-white-historic-moments-29.jpg

Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London, 1930

Gives me the creeps...

The Borges family gather at the breakfast table with tiger Tom, in Maringa, Brazil. Ary Borges, far right, who looks after nine tigers and two lionesses, is in a legal battle with federal wildlife officials to keep his endangered animals from being taken away from him and his family. Photograph: Renata Brito/AP

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/gallery/2013/sep/28/observer-20-photos-nairobi-femen-messi#/?picture=418504575&index=0

Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don’t float apart.

is that a jumping insect or frog in the top left quarter of the image?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/12/frog-nasa-photobomb-rocket_n_3911828.html

Ha... that's brilliant!

le sigh

Please don't post memes in this thread.

Please don't post.

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^ Yawn

A leopard skin burns as Indian officials and activists burn wildlife contraband including tiger and leopard skins, and bones as part of a campaign to save the tiger in Mumbai, India, on July 30, 2013. Despite conservation efforts, tiger numbers in India have declined due to rampant poaching of the cats for their valuable pelts and body parts that are highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Directly related to my work... any more details?

poacher?

http://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506

..ha, just saw these elsewhere and thought about posting them here..

The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard, is seen in this false color infrared image, as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. Cygnus is on its way to rendezvous with the space station. The spacecraft will deliver about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food and clothing, to the Expedition 37 crew.

NASA / Bill Ingalls