Fancy a beach holiday? Think twice if you planned to go the St. Maarten.
Photographer Josef Hoflehner has an amazing collection of surreal images of the beach near Princess Juliana Airport International in St. Maarten.
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Humongous Hubble Telescope Galaxy Photography
The galaxies NGC 4402 and NGC 4522, respectively, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys: mega size pictures (30 and 40MB each).
Source: Discover Magazine.
Vintage European Geishas
Flickr group of European vintage geishas.
US army lives in former Saddam Hussein palaces
The U.S. Army occupied/occupies former Saddam Hussein palaces in Iraq. Richard Mosse documented this for the NYT.
More pictures at Richard Mosse’s NYT Lens.
Awesome photography during thunder storm
These pictures are rather amazing and no HDR is involved.
We had a massive lightning storm in Toronto last night. I set my camera to do 15 second exposures at 17 seconds intervals for three hours and from 660 shots more than 60 of them had lightning in them. The image above is made out of two of those capture
Insect flight patterns
Video made of long-exposure photos of bugs buzzing around a streetlight.
Building Rome in one day
3D reconstruction of some of the major landmarks in Rome, using Flickr images and a computer farm with 500 processors.
Pilot ejects from plane at Mach 2 [PIC]
A Russian pilot ejected from a Sukhoi fighter jet at Mach 2 speed. The ‘stunt’ was for a movie. The pilot ejected himself from the most modern and advanced SU-35UB prototype plane.
Words from his colleague in the plane:
While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside – it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.
Via Gizmodo.
Coolest sun corona photo
This photo was taken during last week’s longest sun eclipse. You won’t see a better one until the next eclipse of the sun.
Photo credit: Koen van Gorp (Yes, he’s Belgian and has no paid hosting!) [via NASA]
Remember when Suicide Girls were hot?
The older internauts among us might remember the good ol’ days, when Suicide Girls took off and quickly became the adult niche for many a nerd and geek. Ever since end 2007 Sg have been falling down the pecking order, mainly because of the ever more mainstream character of both site and girls. Or the low level of both.
Earlier this year SG reached a new low with the free SG Fight Club shoot [NSFW]. Over the last years the yearly membership fee has dropped massively. Not surprisingly.
Today a new, free shoot has been released for ComicCon and it gives SG a new spin. Safe for work and without nakedness. Suicide girls go Cosplay. There are some cool photos actually in the shoot.
Photo credit and more pictures at Suicide Girls.
Want!
It might be totally wrong, but I absolutely want these jeans or the complete outfit even). Gradient jeans FTW.
Great picture as well.
Olivier Theyskens by Jak and Jill.
F22 Raptor goes supersonic [Pic]
Photo credit Navy.
Awesome photography of a vulcan eruption
A picture taken from above during the Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands on June 12th 2009. Click the image for larger view.
Source and photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
