AwkwardFamilyPhotos. Earth from Above. "Earth From Above" is the result of the aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's five-year airborne odyssey across six continents. It's a spectacular presentation of large scale photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet. Coal mine in South Africa Sha Kibbutz, Israel Military cemetery in Verdun, France Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark Elephants on the savannah, Botswana Favelas in Rio de Janeiro Ruins of the medieval city of Shali, Egypt Switzerland Gullholmen, Sweden Denver, USA Fraser Island dune, Australia Pena, Portugal Amazon River, Brazil Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa Machu Picchu, Peru Walled City of Dubrovnik, Croatia The Changping District in Beijing, China Cattle near the Masai Mara National Park, Kenya Tasmania, Australia Boat Houses in Lagos, Nigeria Bazaar of Istanbul, Turkey Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany Hashima Island, Japan Stockholm, Sweden Boats stranded on the dry Aral Sea, Kazakhstan Varanasi, India.
Lots of Snow! "QUANTUM SHOT" #613Link - by A. Abrams If you've been snowed under for some time, these pictures will help you feel better "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?... " (Job, 38:22) Some translations put it as "the treasures of the snow". Well, it seems some locations get entirely too much of this good thing: Snowed under in the most epic way (somewhere in Switzerland): (original unknown) Huge vintage snow fall (would like to get some info): Norilsk, Russia, The World Capital of Snow Vicious winter blizzards in Norislk, Siberia, bring an inordinate - even obscene - amount of snow... (images via) There is a car here, somewhere - (images via) Norilsk climate is impressive not only in winter - here is a brooding storm over the city, spring 2009: (image credit: Alexander Grishin) Norilsk citizen's pasttime (and a popular extreme sport) - they call it "Buildering": Snow being cleared from the Trans-Labrador Highway in northeastern Canada: Similar "snow walled-in" road situation, this time in Japan:
Best Environmental Photos of 2011. Photograph by Chan Kwok Hung, EPOTY.org/Fame/Barcroft Children comfort each other in a scrapyard in Kathmandu, Nepal , in a 2011 image by photographer Chan Kwok Hung of Hong Kong . The picture, an entry in the "Quality of Life" category, won top honors in the 2011 Environmental Photographer of the Year awards, whose winners were announced last week. The children live with their grandmother and search the scrapyard for things to sell, using the money to buy food, according to the photographer. "They had found nothing for a few days," he said in a statement. More than a third of Nepal's 12.6 million children live below the poverty line, according to a 2010 report by UNICEF. Organized by the London-based Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management , the Environmental Photographer of the Year contest honors amateur and professional photographers who "raise awareness of environmental and social issues.
" ( See the best environmental photos of 2010 .) —Korena Di Roma. Sadamalinn.