Guy built a Lamborghini in his basement. In Focus - Afghanistan: June 2012. The number of coalition soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month stands at 39, bringing the number for the entire war to 3,071 -- roughly one death every 30 hours since the initial invasion in October 2001. The soldiers who died in June 2012, all men, ranged in age from 21 to 47, with 29 hailing from the United States, four from the UK, four from France, and one from Italy. Civilian casualties also remain high, as locals are often caught in NATO bombings and are increasingly targeted by Taliban attacks. Overall levels of violence are slowly declining. But the lengthy process of demobilization and withdrawal remains in its initial phase, and civilians, soldiers and insurgents continue to die in Afghanistan in alarming numbers. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A displaced Afghan boy from Helmand province peeks from a window at a camp for the displaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 20, 2012.
A soldier from the U.S. A U.S. Click to view image U.S. A U.S. U.S. U.S. Staff Sgt. U.S. Buggy series project. Multiple Exposure Portraits by Christoffer Relander. World War 2 Pictures in Color - WW2inColor.com. Halsman-DaliAtomicus(1306x1038).jpg (1306×1038) Fallen Princesses by Dina Goldstein. Great photo series titled “Fallen Princesses” by Dina Goldstein… Dina Goldstein Superbe série de photos intitulée “Fallen Princesses” par Dina Goldstein… Dina Goldstein. The Top 50 'Pictures of the Day' for 2011. Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the year that was. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to the individual post to learn more about the photographer and picture taken.
Enjoy and stay sifty my friends! Bizarre Google Streetview findings « Coolphoto « WhereCoolThingsHappen. Image Hub. Day and Night in New York City Captured in Single Images [8 Pictures] Creative photos by Chema Madoz. Between the Seconds III. Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time. Great Ideas. Wonderland by Kirsty Mitchell: heart-breakingly beautiful photographic series in memory of an extraordinary life.
Kirsty Mitchell's Wonderland series has been three years in the makingAll costumes, wigs and sets were constructed on a shoestring budgetSome images took up to five months to createShe would often wait an entire year to find the perfect natural setting for her shots By Stephanie Hirschmiller Published: 14:11 GMT, 17 May 2012 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 18 May 2012 Kirsty Mitchell's late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen's death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography. She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. 'Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,' said the artist.
The resulting images looked so hyper-real that it was assumed that they were created in Photoshop. Paint_war_berlin.jpeg (1600×1066) The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011. 50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos. 50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life. 48 Things That Will Make You Feel Old. Rare and very interesting photos. Interesting and very rare photographs, you may never see. The first McDonald’s. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. Capital of Brazil, on the beginning. Pius XII and Hitler. The King. Rare Beatles photos. Osama bin Laden and his family. Titanic. Fall of the Berlin Wall All forms of Coca-Cola bottles. John Lennon shortly before his death. Principles. Statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Albert Einstein. Charlie Chaplin and Gandhi. First computer. Albert Einstein’s diploma. The early Beatles. The first team of Google. Pope John Paul and the man who tried to kill him.
Moment when Bush heard about the attacks 11th September. Explosive! Spectacular pictures of the moment a bullet shatters food. Don't try this at home... Caters If you have ever wondered what would happen if you shot a coconut, here is your answer... Looking almost more like an exploded loaf of bread than the exotic fruit, the bullet's direction and the energy of the impact is caught on camera. Photographer Alan Sailer uses an air rifle and firecrackers to create these images. Based in California, USA, the 57-year-old has rigged up a camera with a special flash in his garage using parts off eBay. A normal flash lasts a millisecond (a thousandth of a second) while Alan's special set-up freezes about a microsecond (a millionth of a second). Alan uses a slow shutter speed on his Nikon 40X digital camera and the picture is taken in darkness - apart from the brief moment of the flash. Fired from an air rifle, the pellet or marble travels at 200 metres per second as it hits.
A sensor triggered as the missile passes sets off the flash at the moment of the impact. More pictures to marvel at... Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives. The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more. I spent hours lost in these amazing photos, and gathered this group together to give you just a glimpse of what's been made available from this remarkable collection. [Update - 50 additional photos added: More from NYC.] [Update II - Image sizes reduced by request of the NYC Archive.] [53 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Sunlight floods in through windows in the vaulted main room of New York City's Grand Central Terminal, illuminating the main concourse, ticket windows and information kiosk. Photo taken ca. 1935-1941.
Aerial view of New York City, looking north, on December 16, 1951. 28th Street Looking east from Second Avenue, on April 4, 1931. A worker on the Brooklyn Bridge, on November 19, 1928. Afghanistan: April 2012. For nearly three years now, I've been posting monthly photo essays on the war in Afghanistan, and a question I hear fairly often is, "Why do you do this? " My intent is to continue to focus attention on what is actually happening on the ground -- far from policy debates or speeches. As long as we, as a nation, are sending thousands of men and women into harm's way and tasking them with acting on our behalf in a foreign country, we need to be aware of what we are asking them to do, what their lives are like, and what the lives of the Afghan people are like. This is true even if the conflict has been going on for more than a decade -- and even if we don't all agree on whether we should be there at all. As of April 12, 120,000 soldiers from 50 nations are committed to Afghanistan, with 90,000 of them from the United States.
All are working toward the planned 2014 withdrawal. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A firefighter sprays water on a burning fuel tanker in Kabul April 23, 2012. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011. National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from.
Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Beluga whales in the arctic having fun. This is a streetcar in New Orleans traveling back towards The Quarter on St. This image captures almost 6 hours of climbing parties on Rainier going for the summit under starry skies. Russia, polar region of West Siberia, Tazovsky Peninsula. 3018167_700b.jpg (500×4353)