Photo Of The Day

Cheers--I thought I'd flush out a trainspotter. :)

That train pic is amazing. Todays trains would probably just stop working altogether.

its the wrong kind of rain now a days

I usually like these but liked this one more than usual. Serendipity and whatnot.

Rocket, Meteor, and Milky Way over Thailand
Image Credit & Copyright: Matipon Tangmatitham
Explanation: Can the night sky appear both serene and surreal? Perhaps classifiable as serene in the above panoramic image taken last Friday are the faint lights of small towns glowing across a dark foreground landscape of Doi Inthanon National Park in Thailand, as well as the numerous stars glowing across a dark background starscape. Also visible are the planet Venus and a band of zodiacal light on the image left. Unusual events are also captured, however. First, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, while usually a common sight, appears here to hover surreally above the ground. Next, a fortuitous streak of a meteor was captured on the image right. Perhaps the most unusual component is the bright spot just to the left of the meteor. That spot is the plume of a rising Ariane 5 rocket, launched a few minutes before from Kourou, French Guiana. How lucky was the astrophotographer to capture the rocket launch in his image? Pretty lucky -- the image was not timed to capture the rocket. Also lucky was how photogenic -- and perhaps surreal -- the rest of the sky turned out to be.

..surreal..

Brent Stirton

^ World Press Photo results are out. Won by John Stanmeyer, founding member of VII. Chair of the jury? Gary Knight, founding member of VII.

ice in slovakia

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-ice-storm-in-slovenia-2014-2

fwiw, the article says slovenia, not slovakia.

Storm clouds approaching Coober Pedy

I can't hear the name Coober Pedy without thinking of this..

Some bloody scenes from Ukraine

https://twitter.com/sodel_vlad

^ those are horrific!

*British adventure photographer Lucinda Grange has travelled the world, scaling famous buildings and structures and taking pictures from the top. Among her impressive list of climbs is the Great Pyramid of Giza, Firth of Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland and the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. Photographs: Lucinda *

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/feb/18/tall-storeys-lucinda-granges-daredevil-photography

from the above:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/18/1392728128030/9aea6e80-ebbd-4963-9326-e5403fd07c13-620x447.jpeg

The selfie to end all selfie-s?

(Or maybe I am too cycnical)

v Ha well and truly trumped (although Earthrise/Pale Blue Dot might win in terms of being a photo of everyone?)

Snapshots from the movie gravity don't count. ;)

29 Images From The Protests In Venezuela

..some really good photos in there, thanks.

#3 and #6 are horrible :(

Seeing Themselves: Photographers’ Self-Portraits

Very much recommend this series of interviews -
National Geographic photographers talking about their passion / their work:

Proof: The Photographers on Photography - YouTube
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Steve McCurry

London 1912:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/02/photographs-ca-mathews-london-east-end-exhibition

Looks like an exhibition worth seeing.

dalai llama goes skiing

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-day-the-dalai-lama-hit-the-slopes-in-santa-fe-9169225.html