National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - In Focus. 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. Zen Stories - Global One TV: A Blog for Mystics.
Places. People. Poetry 180 - Hate Poem. 10 Forgotten Fantastical Novels You Should Read Immediately. Fans of magical prose and magical worlds, take heart.
Titan Books has recently released a special limited edition version of steampunk legend James Blaylock’s The Aylesford Skull, a classic from one of the genre’s trailblazers. To celebrate the release, Blaylock has put together a list of forgotten or ignored works of literature that have inspired his own writing, and should be must-reads for anyone interested in science fiction or the fantastic.
Blaylock writes: “Why these novels turned out to be inspirational is a long story, too long to recount here, and in fact sometimes I can’t quite say: a sensibility, maybe, that seemed to me to be True in some regard, a sense of humor that was also a sense of proportion, wisdom of a whimsical variety, an evocative atmosphere, intriguing characters, a level of eccentricity that was somehow made perfectly plausible, a giant cephalopod.
All of that is very murky, of course. Timeline. John Baez August 28, 2012 Note: all figures here are approximate!
I have left out lots of exciting incidents in the history of the universe, but it's still fairly interesting. You can see three views of history: Counting Backwards from Now 60 years ago - Invention of the computer. 130 years ago - Invention of the telephone. 180 years ago - Fossil fuel revolution: coal, trains. 540 years ago - Invention of the printing press. 5,500 years ago - Invention of the wheel, writing. 7,600 years ago - Sahara desert starts forming in northern Africa. 8,800 years ago - The first cities. 10,300 years ago - End of the most recent glacial period: the Wisconsin glaciation. 12,700 - 11,500 years ago - the Younger Dryas. 18,000 years ago - Cultivation of plants, herding of animals. 21,000 years ago - Last glacial maximum: ice sheets down to the Great Lakes, the mouth of the Rhine, and covering the British Isles.
Creative Writing Prompts. Welcome to the creative writing prompts page!
Prompts can be a big help as story starters, or when you sit staring at the computer with nothing to write. It happens. Sometimes you need something to stimulate ideas and spark creativity. These photos and the accompanying text is meant to do just that, and the act of typing anything often stimulates new ideas and productivity.
These writing prompts are easy to use. What you write doesn't matter, write a description, scene, or passage of dialogue. Writing Prompt #1 Write about the old woman who lives in apartment 567. Writing Prompt #10 Describe the shop where these jars exist. Writing Prompt #11 Describe what the mother sees and feels when she looks at her baby for the first time. Writing Prompt #20 She had to get away. Writing Prompt #21 What is in the monk's bowl and who put it there? Writing Prompt #30 "Why did you only photograph its eye? " Writing Prompt #41 Where is this and why are your characters there?