Auckland’s trademark Sky Tower bursting into sparks at the top. Kind of reminds you of a sparkler, doesn’t it?
New Year Celebration: Auckland, New Zealand
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Auckland’s trademark Sky Tower bursting into sparks at the top. Kind of reminds you of a sparkler, doesn’t it?
Auckland’s trademark Sky Tower bursting into sparks at the top. Kind of reminds you of a sparkler, doesn’t it?
New Year Celebration: Singapore
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Lighting up the skies and the river with not just city lights, but also the lively fireworks for the new year.
Lighting up the skies and the river with not just city lights, but also the lively fireworks for the new year.
New Year Celebration: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Fireworks against the magnificent backdrop of Malaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur, featuring the Petronas Twin Towers.
New Year Celebration: Dubai, U.A.E
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Sparkly fireworks by the classy architecture of Burj Al Arab, the 27th tallest building in the world. It is also the tallest hotel in the world at the time of completion, but the fourth tallest as of today.
Snow Dagger
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Once snow falls on the ground Aurora photography becomes much more fun. The lighter and more fitting foreground gives Aurora images much more character than the non snowy ones. This image taken near Vik, Iceland the blowing snow had formed interesting patterns on a edge of a frozen lake.
Merry Christmas
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In this image taken with a fish-eye lens, the traditional Regent Street Christmas Lights 2011 in central London's main shopping area are switched on as fireworks explode overhead on November 8, 2011.
In this image taken with a fish-eye lens, the traditional Regent Street Christmas Lights 2011 in central London's main shopping area are switched on as fireworks explode overhead on November 8, 2011.
The Statue of Liberty
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The "Tribute in Light" shines above lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and One World Trade Center in New York. 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Raise Hands
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Supporters of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo raise their hands in a show of support at a rally in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on January 9, 2011. Gbagbo refused to recognize the results of a long-delayed election that he lost, and a long period of conflict ensued before he was removed from office.
Homelessness around the world
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Boston conducted its 32nd census of the city’s homeless population earlier this week. A report to the United Nations in 2005 stated there were an estimated 100 million homeless people in the world, and an additional 1.6 billion living without adequate housing. Here are some images of homelessness across the globe, collected from wire images this year.
Boston conducted its 32nd census of the city’s homeless population earlier this week. A report to the United Nations in 2005 stated there were an estimated 100 million homeless people in the world, and an additional 1.6 billion living without adequate housing. Here are some images of homelessness across the globe, collected from wire images this year.
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A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa
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Nineteen of the critically endangered animals established by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project were moved from the Eastern Cape to a new location in Limpopo province.
The Amur Tiger
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A female Amur tiger, Iris, licks its 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The Amur tiger is an endangered species.
Lightning flashes
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Lightning flashes around the ash plume of the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos, Chile.
Lightning flashes around the ash plume of the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos, Chile.
The love between Love and Psyche
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According to one of the most romantic of the Greek and Roman myths, the lovely Psyche had through her great beauty incited jealousy in the heart of Venus herself, the goddess of love. Venus had a son naned Eros (sometimes called Love or Cupid) whom she used to inflame the hearts of men and women to love or hatred. Venus dispatched Eros to inspire Psyche with the love of some base creature but when Eros saw her, he himself was smitten with love and failed to carry out his mother's orders. he caused Zephyr to waft her away to his own palace in a beautiful secluded valley. There he came to her each night in secrecy, having whispered to her that she must not seek to know his name. Psyche had two sisters who became envious of the manner of life which the unknown lover had bestowed upon the youngest of the three. Working upon her fears and her curiosity, they induced Psyche to light a lamp while her lover was asleep and to gaze upon him. When pyche did so, she saw not a monster as they had predicted, but the most handsome of all youths. In her excitement she let fall upon his shoulder drops of burning oil from the lamp. Eros awoke and vanished without farewell. In her despair Psyche went to Venus to beg forgiveness and to offer to do deeds of penance. Venus was unforgiving and assigned the most difficult of tasks to the beautiful girl, but Eros rescued her and at his entreaty she was received among the gods who united the lovers in marriage. The myth was aptly selected by Canova for the subject of this romantically appealing statue.
Lunar Eclipse
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On 10 of December the longest lunar eclipse in over ten years animated the night sky. The red hue resulted from the sun's light passing through the earth's atmosphere.
Viewers in Asia had the best view, while those watching in Europe saw part of it at moonrise, and North Americans caught part of it as the moon set.
On 10 of December the longest lunar eclipse in over ten years animated the night sky. The red hue resulted from the sun's light passing through the earth's atmosphere.
Viewers in Asia had the best view, while those watching in Europe saw part of it at moonrise, and North Americans caught part of it as the moon set.
The Exhibition of Steve McCurry at the Macro (Rome)
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Museo d'arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) will host a large exhibition of Steve McCurry's photography from December 3, 2011 until April 29, 2012. Fabio Novembre, one of the major players in the project, has curated the exhibition and preparation. The photos were not chosen with space-time criteria, but they were organize on the basis of similarity of subjects.
"What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling."
(Cit. Steve McCurry)
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