Photo Of The Day

The big cat house in Karlsruhe Zoo. Opened in 1865 it is one of Germanys oldest Zoos.
From the series 'Cages'

Michael Schnabe

Silent Night at Seven Mile Ford, Virginia, 1957

Ogle Winston Link

Decend

Hengki Koentjoro

The Brennisteinsalda Volcando, Iceland.

Marcel Musil

Douglas Fairbanks holding up Charlie Chaplin in front of crowd to promote Liberty Bonds, Wall street, NYC.

April, 1918

Underwood & Underwood

The Space Shuttle Columbia on Rogers Dry lakebed at Edwards AFB after landing to complete its first orbital mission. Technicians towed the Shuttle back to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for post-flight processing and preparation for a return ferry flight atop a modified 747 to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

April 14th, 1981

NASA / JSC

During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called ‘Spomeniks’ – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted.

Jan Kempenaers

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Michael Schnabel

I'm going to link this next image as I'm not 100% everyone will want to look at it as it is disturbing. Read the caption and make your mind up first.

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Stanley J. Forman was working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: “Fire on Marlborough Street!”. Climbing on a the fire truck, Forman shot the picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived. Despite a heroic effort, the fireman who tried to grab them had been just seconds away from saving the lives of both.

Photo coverage from the tragic event garnered Stanley Forman a Pulitzer Prize. But more important, his work paved the way for Boston and other states to mandate tougher fire safety codes.

July 22nd, 1975

Stanley J. Forman

It must be horrible to be a photographer in that situation but the caption does point out its importance - before anyone decides to jump on a high horse about its inappropriateness (as they love to in this thread)

Got invited to an asylum for Agent Orange victims when I was in Vietnam.
As it turns out that part of the trip was canceled, but I think I would probably have bottled it - and wouldn't have taken any photo's as I am not a "photographer" there-fore it would have felt inappropriate - but for my friend who is Vietnamese and a photo-journalist it would have been ok, as she had a message to impart.

tl:dr appropriateness is all about context
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Also, I think this thread should be renamed Spotted by spotter (&others)

All the Boston photos from the Paralympics are so sick - well inspiring.

yes sir!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/09/paralympics_2012.html

From here

Question here.
Wouldn't the rider gain more from having only the driveside (on her left side, obvs) ?

With a custom rear Disc, obvsl.

waitsfortester

Question here.
Wouldn't the rider gain more from having only the driveside (on her left side, obvs) ?

Good question, I guess they'd have to go clockwise which isn't quite the norm, chariots used to race anti-clockwise and so will these warriors.

probably NJS/UCI rules?

NJS...? ... omfg...

NJS is all about gambling *IN* Japan.

I'm going to link this next image as I'm not 100% everyone will want to look at it as it is disturbing. Read the caption and make your mind up first.

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Incredible.

The Paralympic shots are pretty great.

Murderball (wheelchair rugby) is probably the most bad-arse sport I've seen in a long time.

Guys who we saw last friday were running no left hand crank if their left leg was missing. Everyone missing their right were running full chainsets.

Possibly one of the most bleak photo stories but stunning work none the less. To see the rest from the beginning look here: http://www.darcypadilla.com/thejulieproject/intro.html

Love this.

All those monuments are so sick.