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M/V MSC BULGARIA Drydock - DAKAR NAVE Shipyard - Dakar Senegal

Dimitris Tamvakos

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9939547@N08

Oscc

Huh?

I don't know what that means either but y u no photo credit?

"Obligatory slack chain comment"

Haha, ok..

Captioned. Its a dry dock in Dakar, Senegal.

cheers

http://youtu.be/bXhyQJLSnzc

With English subtitles. Not the most pleasant video you'll ever watch but very much worth watching.

"Where's Dakar?"

"This is a *ship*yard m8"

I know this is going to turn into a hypo link but don't know how to stop it. Anyway, quite like these by REUTERS/Joe Penney

http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140521&t=2&i=898785928&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=2014-05-21T224013Z_02_GM1EA5M0EMX01_RTRRPP_0_NIGERIA-GIRLS

http://uk.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=UKRTR3Q92Z#a=6

Don't have a specific photo, but this series from Richard Mosse is interesting.
Congo Photos

Pope Francis visits Israel's separation barrier in Bethlehem. Photograph: AP
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/pope-francis-israeli-separation-wall-bethlehem

R.I.P. Ezra Caldwell

Here's an interview with him in The Photographic Journal from January 2013.

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

ridiculously good set here...
http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2014/04/30/images-of-april-3/#a=1

Nice, but tilts to the right.

yeah it does, not sure why they didn't correct that. The bit that annoys the OCD in me though is that it's the tiniest bit off centre - look at the middle staircase. So close..

A very effective 'then and now'.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive

Very nice.

A very effective 'then and now'.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive

Awesome.

Very good, but the fourth one down could be bloody anywhere.

Bianca, Robson and other volunteers from Grupo de Resistencia Asa Branca (GRAB), an NGO working for the rights of gay and transsexual people in Brazil, walk down the street in Fortaleza, April 2012.

As you know, jaw, I'm a great admirer of Pep Bonet and those are beautiful pictures.

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP

C Torres/Reuters
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/07/photography-rihanna-maria-sharapova#/?picture=438784189&index=0

By NASA

*Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope.

Researchers say the image, in new study called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, provides the missing link in star formation. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 image is a composite of separate exposures taken in 2003 to 2012 with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.

Astronomers previously studied the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) in visible and near-infrared light in a series of images captured from 2003 to 2009. The HUDF shows a small section of space in the southern-hemisphere constellation Fornax. Now, using ultraviolet light, astronomers have combined the full range of colors available to Hubble, stretching all the way from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The resulting image — made from 841 orbits of telescope viewing time — contains approximately 10,000 galaxies, extending back in time to within a few hundred million years of the big bang.

Prior to the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field study of the universe, astronomers were in a curious position. Missions such as NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) observatory, which operated from 2003 to 2013, provided significant knowledge of star formation in nearby galaxies. Using Hubble’s near-infrared capability, researchers also studied star birth in the most distant galaxies, which appear to us in their most primitive stages due to the significant amount of time required for the light of distant stars to travel into a visible range. But for the period in between, when most of the stars in the universe were born — a distance extending from about 5 to 10 billion light-years — they did not have enough data.

“The lack of information from ultraviolet light made studying galaxies in the HUDF like trying to understand the history of families without knowing about the grade-school children,” said principal investigator Harry Teplitz of Caltech in Pasadena, California. “The addition of the ultraviolet fills in this missing range.”
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