Its hard to believe these pictures are not photographs. They are pencil drawings made byDiego Fazio, a 23 year old self-taught artist living in Italy. Each meticulously detailed portrait can take up to 200 hours to complete. Fazio has been awarded several honors for his work over the last few years.
This is the only place in the world where one can share breakfast with the worlds tallest animal. When Jock died, Betty decided to open her house, now called The Giraffe Manor, to visitors. Today, many tourist make the Giraffe Manor part of their East African Safari. The Giraffe Manor is surrounded by 140 acres of indigenous forest just outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
But unlike snowballs made by people, snow rollers are typically cylindrical in shape, and are often hollow. Gravity can also assist snow roller formation. An inclined surface often needs just a little shove from the wind to get snow rollers in motion. The top snow layer becomes a bit sticky and you then need a fairly strong wind. However, the inner layers are weaker as they are formed first and are easily blown away....
The crowd weave their way around in between vendors, picking up whatever they need for the day. After all the market has been here for generations way before when the railway was set up in 1905. Thais call this place Talad Rom Hoop Market which literally translates to Market Umbrella Pulldown. You will understand the name once you see the video. Trains runs through the Maeklong Railway Market 7 times a day, 7 days a week....
Two-thirds of the island’s population was forced to flee. Despite the volcanic activity, a large part of Montserrat remains lush and green. The current government centre is at Brades, a short distance away.
It is home to around 300 lamas who receive their religious education here. Nevertheless, it is believed that the monastery is at least a thousand years old. There was even a celebration of its millennium in 2000 in the presence of the Dalai Lama. In the 19th century it was attacked and looted by various armies engaging in fights in the region. This was followed by a devastating fire in the 1840s....
It is also the largest mud brick building in the world. The walls are between 41 cm (16 in.) and 61 cm (24 in.) thick - the thickness varying with the wall’s height. A set of six stairs, each decorated with pinnacles, leads to the mosques entrance. In the days leading up to the festival, the plaster is prepared in pits. Another group of men carries the plaster from the pits to the workmen on the mosque....
The brilliant colouring is not just for decoration, he uses it when he courts his mate. He also raises his third legs which have a brush of black bristles and the white-tipped ends. And then like a peacock, he raises the two magnificently coloured flaps and dances for the female. The Peacock Spider is extremely tiny a mere four millimetre in length. I have a very keen eye for small things, said Dr Jurgen Otto....
PhotographerBill Wadmanhas captured 9 dancers in flowing motion with long exposure photography. The series titled Motion is now available as a book. We were a little late. Athletes, construction workers, cooks, etc. were all on my initial list of potential shoots. During the following months I had sessions with nine different dancers. But the photos look amazing! Also see:Unusually Long Exposure Photographs by Michael Wesely
Lately two photographers,Vitaly RaskalovandAlexander Remnev, have been generating a lot of buzz around this subject. Alexander Remnev himself is only 18 years old. Every climb is done without a harness so it is important to keep a cool head. His biggest challenge, he said, was a building with 74 floors - a staggering 900ft tall. He explained: I got involved with this because I’ve always liked to take pictures from above....
These cars once belonged to US soldiers who were stationed in this region. Its not known how they managed to acquire these beauties in the middle of the war. The ranking officers decided to leave all the cars in Belgium. Not a single car was retrieved. At one point there were four car graveyards around Chatillon, and as many as 500 vehicles. Only one remain today.
Astonishingly, it took three puppies just eight weeks to master the basics in wooden carts. They’ve all come through at this point and they’re all going really well". All of the dogs involved had been rescued by the SPCA. The organisation hopes the public will be so impressed that they will adopt them and others like them.
Remember Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg? The artistic duo who reinvented animated GIF and whose moving photographs inspired a new genre of photography cinemagraphs. We have featured theirbeautiful worktwicein the past. Here is a fresh collection of cinemagraphs from them. Those who are introduced to cinemagraphs for the first time, I highly recommend visiting theearly articles. For a more technical explanation of cinemagraphs, I will quoteWikipedia.
