These photos are from National Geographic’s Photograph Contest 2010. The images are in three different categories including nature, places, and people. It took eight weeks for the judges to select these winners.

Graphic designer from San Francisco Michael Tompert and his friend photographer Paul Fairchild have created a series of photographs of the broken, ruined, bullet-riddled and run over by a train Apple products. All the gadgets were bought on their own money and then destroyed. It should be noted that in the past Michael Tompert worked at Apple and is always a fan of this company.

These are the photos of real bikers with many tattoos and that “piercing” look.

It is hard to believe that real love is present on these photographs. It seems that Russian girls dream about wealthy life so badly they would do anything to marry a foreign groom, no matter what his age and appearance are, and move abroad.

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The streets of New York City have a wide array of people and sights to see. These photos were taken in 1974. From the musicians to the shops to something as simple as railroad tracks it is all very grand. But then again, they don’t call it the big apple for nothing.

Manic Monday is ending with our daily stare. Enjoy!

Flying the friendly....

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roads!  What a cute little car this one turned out to be.

These are some very funny photos, drawings, art, and graffiti by Jan Kriwol. While they are very humorous, you’ll have to look very close at some of them to catch their drift. The detail is truly amazing.

 These amazing nature photos are absolutely breathtaking. There are lush green forests, shining lakes, beautiful skies, purple mountains, and amazing icicles. Mother Nature is a wonderful entity, to give us such splendor to look at.

These comic drawings illustrate some of the mistakes people do while taking pictures.

All these wildlife photographs were taken under controlled conditions by 32-year-old British photographer Jonathan Griffiths who lives in Montana, USA.

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These are photos of a spectacular tide in China.

All these photos show people or animals pulling different things or each other.

Sometimes, looking at monkeys, I start to believe that they are much alike many people.

Although these paintings look like photos, they’re not. Artist Gregory Thielker did a great job in making them look very realistic to the point that you will have a difficult time believing that they are actually paintings.

A compilation of photos with all possible stuff that looks like Darth Vader.

This bear attacked the wrong cows. In fact, there were too many of them…

Our site visitor has sent us this link to the original photos from the Civil War. We thank GOODSTUFF a lot, because now we all can take a look at the past by going through this amazing black and white photo gallery.

Awesome compilation of photographs of amazing and OMG moments of life in which people captured the most dangerous and short-lived situations on camera.

It is so interesting to recollect old memories. This time let’s look at the photos from Middle School dances and laugh at these most awkward moments in life.

1. Guys being shorter than girls

Ben’s weight was 358 pounds on January 1, 2009. But Ben had a life goal to lose extra pounds. So he started running and exercising. In 2009 Ben ran 983 miles, and by September 2010 he added to this number another 376 miles. In the middle of September 2010 he weighed 248 pounds. This means that in a year and a half Ben managed to lose 110 pounds in total. Excellent results! See how this man’s weight was changing every month, and don’t forget to watch the video inside this post.

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There are dozens of spacecraft orbiting our solar system. NASA and ESA take many photographs of Earth, Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Saturn and other planets. Inside this post you can see the most recent pictures from around our solar system. Some of them are closely scaled, others are millions of kilometers afar which makes them ever more fantastic and amazing.

Here's some photos of Edward Curtis. I'm not the owner, I found it interesting and only collect them on my HD. Enjoy!

These breathtaking photographs can show you the world, shining, shimmering, and splendid. This is simply amazing!

These old school photos of the USA were taken by Christine Osinski whose pictures were published in the best New York magazines and newspapers. Welcome to black and white America!

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It’s not that easy to recreate photographs in paintings so that it will be difficult to point out the original picture and its painted copy. Norman Rockwell created real masterpieces in painting photos and spiced them up a little.