With half of 2012 in the books lets look back on the most amazing photos to come from this period.
A seahorse inspects a diver's watch
An illuminated snow tunnel in Russia
Everybody was kung fu fighting
Picture #4 was removed by adminStreet artist Sainer goes big in Poland
Mount Rainier casting a shadow on clouds
First contact
The Irish Sky Garden crater
Moon bridge in Dahu Park, Taipei
Flight of the devil rays
Gásadalur Village in the Faroe Islands
World’s edge
The Capilano suspension bridge in Vancouver
Fractal patterns in dried out desert rivers
Meditating monks at Pongour Falls
A sunset eclipse
Bora Bora from space
The largest raft of canoes and kayaks in the world
Adaptive roots in the concrete jungle
The Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve
Above the canopy
Colliding rivers in Geneva, Switzerland
The stunning green vine snake
Aurora australis (southern lights) from space
Mount Kilimanjaro from above
The amazing strength of an ant
Yarn bombing a bus in Mexico City
Felix Baumgartner jumps from 71,580 feet
The most incredible aurora of 2012
The Waterfall Island at Iguazu Falls
Overgrown railroad tracks in the forest
A pod of sleeping sperm whales
7 hours in one image
Pixel people perfection
Galactic monsoon
Striking artistry of multiple takeoffs at Hannover Airport
Sailing like a boss
A sea of purple in the badlands of Utah
Putting the size of a whale in perspective
Meanwhile in Switzerland
One boat and 145 water-skiers
Salar de Uyuni after some rain
Outdoor jacuzzi on the Matterhorn
The precious blue marble
Maelstrom at Kauai, Hawaii
Capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia from space
Serenity now
ROFLMAO
Beautiful Bern from above
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these are fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The gentle giant and the little princess... awwww....
Love it all.
Shanthakumar
Some of the best photographs capture the precise moment, and that's better than my saying something like "I didn't know until I studied your seahorse and watch photo that these amazing creatures can tell time!" Actually, they tell real time better than humans can."
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An amzingly clear, accurate photo, made possible by the man accepting the sting.
Gorgeous photos. Need to give credit to the photo artists?
For this reason I hate photo #4: one of the most useful animals for mankind being photographed in the act, where it is killed. What kind of barbarian finds this an exciting photo?
Goetz R. Schaude, Rastatt, Germany
"Copyright is a property right"
"Under the Federal Copyright Act of 1976, photographs are protected by copyright from the moment of creation."
"Photographers have the exclusive right to reproduce their photographs (right to control the making of copies)."
"Unless you have permission from the photographer, you can’t copy, distribute (no scanning and sending them to others), publicly display (no putting them online), or create derivative works from photographs."
"Even small levels of infringement—copying a photo without permission—can have a devastating impact on a photographer’s ability to make a living."
"Copyright infringements—reproducing photos without permission—can result in civil and criminal penalties."
(I took one of these photos and you did not contact me for authorization)
Japan, heavily underrated country, the best country in the world.
People are so gullible these days, have eyes, see nothing.
Many folks notice the Japanese ideographic characters on this bus & thus look askance @ the Mexico City location. The bus, which relatively reliable information purports now sits parked at the northwest corner of the Plaza Luis Cabrera at Colonia Roma, is one of 14 1960s Mitsubishi buses that were originally donated to Mexico in 2000 by the Japanese government, with the idea that they would be used in creating educational centers. They sat abandoned until 2005, when the “Galería Trolebús” (Trolleybus Gallery) was begun to promote non-traditional art projects. The gallery ceased operations in 2009 due to financial problems, but three of the buses are still used for art projects. The one depicted here was "yarn bombed" in 2008 by the Austin, Texas group "Knitta Please", who reportedly used a ton of yarn; the picture is credited to Knitta Please founder Magda Sayeg.
An investigation of the Wikipedia source referenced in the below-linked article (ref. # 1) does appear reliable, as does the source of the "Knitta Please" information linked secondly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_of_Roma,_Condesa_and_Hip%C3%B3dromo
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/knitta-please-bus
You are right, these are great pictures. Thank you so much.
Love Joan
Fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dev Mahapatra