50 Years Ago: The World in 1961 - Alan Taylor - In Focus A half-century ago, much of the world was in a broad state of change: We were moving out of the post-World War II era, and into both the Cold War and the Space Age, with broadening civil rights movements and anti-nuclear protests in the U.S. In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space, Freedom Riders took buses into the South to bravely challenge segregation, and East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall. That year, Kennedy gave the okay to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion into Cuba and committed the U.S. to "landing a man on the Moon" with NASA's Apollo program. JFK also oversaw the early buildup of a U.S. military presence in Vietnam: by the end of 1961, some 2,000 troops were deployed there. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: John F. Canon John Collins of St. Police and secret service struggle in vain to free President elect John F. Jean Lloyd, of Ft. U.S.
40 Beautiful Examples of Bokeh Photography Inspiration by Bill Jones 16inShare I’m sure most of you have heard of the term bokeh. Bokeh is a very subjective thing. Petra Mark-F Sortvind Corrie White digidreamgrafix Sandy515 Lubna-Essence Andrew Wong Thiur Casper Lans Hannah Hylen Ting Hay mouseteeff Honeycorn alejandrohdezruiz marcιη Krawat93 Jenipho AgniMax prismes love-grows-on-trees all17 fragilesimplicity Lisalein Savatey inertia09 Will Montague Stian Throndsen shannkat thewhitestdogalive Manuela Hoffmann embr to Say Something. Bokehjo rebeccadk777 Mondo Cardine Please share your bokeh photography with the TPA Community here. Like Our Site? 63 Comments
Awesome Photographs of Italy www.incrediblesnaps.com is coming up with awesome photographs of Italy. Italy is located in Southern Europe. Italy is one of the most developed country and the citizens enjoy very high standard lifestyle. Italian is an official language of Italy’s Roman Catholicism is largest religion in the country, although the Catholic Church is no longer officially the state religion. Tuscan spring Italy – Venice: Rain on the water Venice Italy: Night Ride on the Vaporetto Manarola at Dusk, Cinque Terre, Italy Italy – Rome Lost in Italy Quaint Street in Burano, Italy Boboli Gardens – Florence, Italy ночной Trieste, Italy honeymooners dream,Venice, Italy Gondolas, Venice Italy Duomo in Milan Italy Castle by night Chiesa di San Pietro – Modica Window in Venice Erigeron Blizzard over the Alps Pitigliano,italy Sunflowers Gondola | Venice traffic Mask of carnival Postcard from Ravello Balcony Italy fashion in Uzbekistan Rome, Italy Marche – Italy MILANO – Galleria V.Emanuele II Altar, St. Ferragosto in Italy St. Ancient Rome
Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Aspherical Sony DSLR With 6-Year USA Warranty World's first and greatest zoom ratio of 15X, covering 28-419mm 35mm-equivalent angle of view Going back to the basic concept of "one lens covering everything from wide angle to telephoto," engineers at Tamron took up the difficult task of expanding the zoom range of Tamron's high power zoom lenses even further. Their unstinting efforts to extend the telephoto end beyond previous limits while retaining the wide-angle end at 18mm has borne fruit as an ultra high power zoom lens that is exclusively designed for DSLR cameras and boasts the greatest zoom range of 15X for the first time in the world. Tamron's original VC mechanism for effective shake-free hand-held photography Tamron's proprietary VC (Vibration Compensation) mechanism was built in the AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC (Model A20) for the first time. It demonstrated its powerful compensation effect employing a tri-axial system that is designed to let three coils drive a compensator lens electromagnetically via three steel balls.
Badass Bridge of the Day - The Daily What - StumbleUpon Post-Apocalyptic Images of Japan | Gakuranman - illuminating Japan - StumbleUpon The ruins and haikyo aficionado in me couldn’t resist making a post about Tokyo Genso‘s fabulous art depicting post-apocalyptic Japan. The illustrations have a breathtaking otherworldly quality that perfectly capture the sort of scenes I regularly come across while exploring ruins, albeit of course, on a much grander and majestic scale. Some of the scenes really aren’t stretching the truth that much either. Head into the backstreets of Japan and you’ll quickly find dilapidated old buildings and creeping plants reclaiming man-made structures for mother nature. Apply that to the iconic landmarks of central Tokyo and other areas of Japan, and you have some gorgeous concept art for what Tokyo could look like if man were wiped from the planet. Anyway, enough talk. Shinjuku Skyscapers Shibuya 109 Department Store Tokyo Big Sight Haneda Airport Rainbow Bridge Shibuya Sakuraya Hamamatsucho Station Shinjuku Station Osaka Streets Sofmap Akihabara Kabuki Theatre in Ginza Tokyo Skytree Tokyo Streets Ueno Hato Bus
50 Images from National Geographic`s 2010 Photo Contest | Top Design... - StumbleUpon Writen by Bogdan / Comments Off on 50 Images from National Geographic`s 2010 Photo Contest This is one of the most anticipated annual photo contests. The deadline for the submissions is on November 30th so if you have an interesting photo, submit it. Below you can see 50 images collected from different categories. An Indian wrestler smears mud on his head before starting wrestling in Kolkata, India, March 30, 2010. A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset. Freediver waiting over 800 ft of water for something substantial to come up from the depths. The Great Pyramids. The Music Of Love. Liquid Planet. Brown bear, Buskin River, Kodiak Alaska. Fleet week 2010, standing on Alcatraz island as the Blue angels fly over head. A Wrinkle in Time. This picture was taken in Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia (2010). Cosmic. The child in us. Cloud and ship. After the Crash. Giraffes at Savannah. A worker in a Bangladesh market taking a much deserved smoke break. Oasis.
Matt Wisniewski | EMPTY KINGDOM You are Here, We are Everywhere - StumbleUpon Marvel at the Magnificent Marble Caves [35 PICS] Can you imagine something happening that would endanger these exquisite azure caverns? It might if Chile continues with plans to build five hydro-power dams in Patagonia. Photo #7 by © Jorge Leon Cabello The water has eroded the marble to create cavities and marble caves. Amazing geological formations on Chilean side of Lake Carrera. It would be a real shame if the hydro-power dams damage the lake and the marble caves on top of the surrounding natural habitats for wildlife. View of the lake and where to find the marble caverns in the Aysen region of Chile.
Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon - Greenland Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra - Jordan (at night) Verdon, Provence, France Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia Norway Alesund Birdseye of City Benteng Chittorgarh, India Riomaggiore, Italy Keukenhof Gardens - Netherlands. Sky Lantern Festival - Taiwan. Mount Roraima - Venezuela. Seychelles East Iceland. Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. New York City.
Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face | COLT + RANE Colt + Rane Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face Kayangan Lake in Coron The Philippines are an archipelago of more than seven thousand islands off the southeast coast of Asia. Only half of these islands have been named and roughly one thousand are inhabited. Look at how beautiful they are! People first arrived here from the mainland around 25,000 B.C. by crossing a land bridge which existed at the time. The name comes from Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal, who explored the Philippines in 1521. Here's a picture of Fort Santiago, where the national hero Jose Rizal was imprisoned prior to his execution. This is one of poems in which he describes the creation of the world, as a gift to his mother: "Say they that tell of the world, the first dawn of the sun, the first kiss that his bosom inflamed, when thousands of beings surged out of nothing, and peopled the depths, and to the heights mounted, to wherever his fecund kiss was implanted" Back to the beautiful ocean! Annnnd to really get you buying your plane tickets... the sunset over Borocay White Beach!
22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time. It was of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl who's piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine and her face became famous as the cover photograph on their June 1985 issue. Beyond just that one photo, McCurry has shot over a million images spanning 35 years. Looking through his large body of work, we get to experience fantastic faraway places we can only dream about visiting. Afghanistan Sri Lanka Yemen Tibet Cambodia India Burma Eastman Kodak let McCurry shoot the last ever produced roll of Kodachrome transparency film. Steve McCurry More Incredible Photos:Capturing a Country's CultureBreathtaking Visions of EarthTragic Portraits of America's Endangered SpeciesIncredible Wildlife Shots by Rob Kroenert