Photo Of The Day

It was the lack of knickers ed.

Yes, but the bush, or whatever we're allowed to call it, was not visible. Anyway, art photography offer so much choice... I mean for the future, later.

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I don't think that's a NASA photo. At first I thought it was Thierry Legault's work, but I think it's actually some spanish astronomer's - http://www.osae.info/documentos_osae/2011/10_07_2011.htm

^ ah sorry about that, thanks for the correction. I will edit the orignal now.

http://www.autism.org.uk/news-and-events/news-from-the-nas/john-swannell-reveals-photo-competition-winner.aspx

While part of every candidate’s retinue, security was simply not the pressing, public concern in 1960 that it would suddenly and necessarily become within a few short years. Here, seemingly alone in a crowd in Logan County, West Virginia, JFK speaks from a kitchen chair as, mere feet away, a young boy absently plays with a jarringly realistic-looking toy gun.

Hank Walker / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

While part of every candidate’s retinue, security was simply not the pressing, public concern in 1960 that it would suddenly and necessarily become within a few short years. Here, seemingly alone in a crowd in Logan County, West Virginia, JFK speaks from a kitchen chair as, mere feet away, a young boy absently plays with a jarringly realistic-looking toy gun.

Hank Walker / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

My cousins grew up near there. Beautiful part of the world. And all toy guns used to be realistic and it wasn't jarring.

Anyway - spotter - you keep posting stuff that I have some random personal connection to - West Virginia, Marfa, the Battleship Texas, plus a few other things lately. At first it was all nostalgic, now I am just a teensy-weensy bit freaked out.

Not as freaked out as you will be when marcom starts posting pictures of your mum.

Jesus. Just caught up with this thread after a weeks absence. Can we please go back to awesome photography with neatly ordered captions please?

Charred trees from a forest fire in the Whitewater-Baldy Complex in New Mexico dominate the landscape
June 2, 2012
Reuters / Kari Greer / US Forest Service / Handout

best of both worlds

Stunning images in Steve McCurry's latest blog post--

http://t.co/FZHRW6dq

These are the fireworks on the Pyro-mid stage at Glade last weekend that me and a team set up and set off!

On your skateboard?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Saudek

Content warning, the following images are NSFW

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Just learnt about Saul Leiter. He's done some fantastic work documenting Manhattan

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tomas-leach-saul-leiter

http://www.lensculture.com/leiter.html

nice stuff cheers for the link

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2U9c42/:1105B.mKX:d1tCZX_b/totallycoolpix.com/2011/02/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2010/

^from that:

Kirill Lewerski, aged 16, a cadet on the Russian ship Kruzenshtern. The traditionally rigged, four-masted bark was built in 1926, the second largest tall ship still in operation.

REUTERS / Joost van den Broek / de Volkskrant Kirill Lewerski / Handout

also a little handy tip for anyone looking to re-host press images for here or anywhere else. If you put them on flickr it will often title/caption/cite it for you automatically.

A pair of Dumpling Squid (Euprymna tasmanica) mate in the coastal waters of Southern Australia

Caelum Mero / Getty Images

Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica looks from a door before a news conference to present the Paris Areva Golden League athletics meeting in Paris.

July 12, 2010.

Reuters / Philippe Wojazer