Strange Sky

Strange Sky
Originally uploaded by megalithicmatt.

Interesting Statues

source : http://haha.nu/funny/strange-statues-around-the-world/

Nice Anti-Smoking Ad..

Via : http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/06/28/best-anti-smoking-advert-ever/

Zicatela

Zicatela #2
Originally uploaded by konaboy.

Taken from the north end of Zicatela Beach in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. The clay being mined from the beach shows up here as brown streaks in the foam. It's hard to judge the scale with no surfer in this shot, but this wave's face was probably 20-25 feet.

Pegasus I -66,000ft -

Pegasus I -66,000ft - IMAG0259.JPG
Originally uploaded by jcoxon77.

View from the side camera on Pegasus I at approx 66,000ft.
The Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project is a UK based amateur student run project that involves launching payloads to "Near Space" (between an altitude of 60,000ft (20km) and 325,000ft (99km). This is achieved through the use of helium weather balloons which are designed to burst at a certain height and then the payload returns to earth via parachute.
Based on a gumstix, gps, nokia 5110 and cameras.
www.srcf.ucam.org/~jac208/pegasus/

columns at stepwells

columns at stepwells
Originally uploaded by dharmesh thakker.

this is step-well at adalaj, gujarat, india. awesome piece of architecture!!!

Paddle (reprise)

Paddle (reprise)
Originally uploaded by Tampen.

Indian idyll. Kashmir.

Batasia loop

Batasia loop
Originally uploaded by Java Cafe.

There is a narrow gauge "toy train" that runs from the plains to the town of Darjeeling (yes, where the famous tea comes from) in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, in the northen part of the state of West Bengal, in India.
In 1999, UNESCO declared the Toy Train and its tracks a "World Heritage Site." After a ride aboard the Toy Train in 1895, Mark Twain is said to have remarked, "The most enjoyable day I've spent on earth is of mixed ecstacy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy."
In one section of the journey, the train climbs almost a 1,000 feet in a matter of minutes at this "Batasia Loop," where the tracks spiral around over itself through a tunnel and over a hilltop.

Rare "Rainbow"

It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice.
Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border (map of Idaho).

The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground.
When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus's crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors.

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flight

flight
Originally uploaded by Riot Sauce.

A_Fishy_Idea

A_Fishy_Idea
Originally uploaded by johncanhn.

Alone

Alone
Originally uploaded by Giampaolo Macorig.

Red Towers in the Sunset

Red Towers in the Sunset
Originally uploaded by Kenny Maths.

Basil Escapes

Basil Escapes
Originally uploaded by Ian Dinnebier.

The Face of India

The Face of India
Originally uploaded by Kenny Maths.

Maybe just one more

Maybe just one more
Originally uploaded by photoplasia.

Mysore Palace

Mysore Palace
Originally uploaded by DrTonyGladvinGeorge.

Sunset in Kenya

Sunset in Kenya
Originally uploaded by eir@si.

Kenyan sunset in Masai Mara

Praying in the desert. Morocco.

Praying in the desert. Morocco.
Originally uploaded by romeral64.

malachite

malachite
Originally uploaded by chapmonkey.

All things blue two

All things blue two
Originally uploaded by nelmaf.

fountain

fountain
Originally uploaded by seriykotik1970.

The "Fountain of the Friendship of Peoples" in the 1950s-60s Soviet Theme-Park ВДНХ- "The Exhibition of National Economic Achievements" . Each golden figure represents one of the 16 Soviet republics (with Mongolia included to make up numbers.) Taken Yesterday but I toned down the colours slightly to give it a period feel.
www.talava.com/vdnkh.html

Thunder clouds

Thunder clouds
Originally uploaded by visulogik.

Wings and birds

Wings and birds
Originally uploaded by nelmaf.

My reds

My reds
Originally uploaded by nelmaf.

Strong wishes

Strong wishes
Originally uploaded by Hobo pd.