Showing posts with label Awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awesome. Show all posts

December 13, 2013

Outdoor Photography at its best

Outdoor Photography at its best 




Outdoor Photography at its best
This picture by Sudipto Das, from West Bengal, entitled Homebound 


Outdoor Photography at its best
 This picture taken by Andy Teasdale, from Gwynedd, and titled Wild Times on Grand Paradiso in the Italian Alps


Outdoor Photography at its best
 Photographer Paul Reiffer, from Dorset, his shot of Horse Shoe Bend in the Grand Canyon

Outdoor Photography at its best
 A plane coming into land in Andy Palmer's picture of London City Airport 

Outdoor Photography at its best
 Nik Sargent, Ely, took this snap of a remote church
Outdoor Photography at its best
 Sujan Sarkar's wonderful picture of a remote lake 

Outdoor Photography at its best
  Stairway to Heaven by Anton Petrus
Outdoor Photography at its best
 Andreas Ettl's Earth on Fire, taken in the stunning moonlike landscape of southern Iceland

Outdoor Photography at its best
 Philip Bird's The Sun Strikes Elephant Rock taken at Ayers Rock in Australia
Outdoor Photography at its best
 Hungarian photographer Aron Suveg with this mountain shot

Outdoor Photography at its best
Andreas Ettl, from Germany, captured a rainbow next to Seljalandsfoss, a waterfall in southern Iceland

November 14, 2013

Snowboarding down a Mountain or Riding the big White Waves ?

Snowboarding down a Mountain or Riding the big White Waves ? 

Snowboarding down a Mountain or Riding the big White Waves ?
Gliding across 95 feet of smooth white, Nitzan Benhaim looks like he's snowboarding down a towering mountain.

November 13, 2013

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters


Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
 A bride spends her big day dangling in the air in the Yosemite National Park in California

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
 The happy couple arrive at their altar following a hard day of climbing through the Yosemite National Park in California

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
Making it official: Strapped to each other with harnesses, the couple prepare to exchange vows

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
 Husband and wife making their way back down
 'Has anyone seen my veil?': The bride poses for photos on Lost Arrow Spire
Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
Lost Arrow Spine was included in the historic climbing text Fifty Classic Climbs of North America


Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
In China too this couple  who are both fans of outdoor sports exchange vows while rock climbin

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
 All the wedding gear was transported to the location and the pair changed on the spot

Extreme Weddings : with no Pre - Marriage Jitters
The unusual photo shoot took place in Liuzhou, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region


Source-dailymail.co.uk

November 11, 2013

Super Typhoon Haiyan

Super Typhoon Haiyan  blows over Pacific Ocean & Philippines 

Super Typhoon Haiyan
 A digital composite of Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines

Super Typhoon Haiyan
  Typhoon Haiyan taken by Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg aboard the Internatioal Space Station

Super Typhoon Haiyan
 Satellite picture of Super typhoon Haiyan posted on Twitter by NASA 

Super Typhoon Haiyan
 Residents of  Albay province, south of Manila,were forced to flee the coast as Typhoon Haiyan approached


Super Typhoon Haiyan
Red Cross states that 1,000 of the 1,200 people were killed by the typhoon were residents of Tacloban


Super Typhoon Haiyan
Before & After : Tacloban bore the full force of the winds and the tsunami-like storm surges
Super Typhoon Haiyan
 Devastation left by typhoon Haiyan in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, central Philippines

Super Typhoon Haiyan
 Acres of flooded rice fields in the Iloilo Province, another area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan

Super Typhoon Haiyan
Destroyed houses on Victory Island  in Eastern Samar province, central Philippines


Super Typhoon Haiyan

Surivors in Tacloban  are so desperate for food that they have been forced to loot shops and steal from the dead

Super Typhoon Haiyan
 Estimates of 10,000 dead d might be low. The dead, decomposing and stinking, litter the streets or are buried in the debris

Super Typhoon Haiyan
Devastation in some parts has been total

October 21, 2013

National Geographic 125th year anniversary pictures 



Under a Glacier in Alaska
 Under a Glacier in Alaska
Bromo Tengger National Park ,Java
 Bromo Tengger National Park ,Java


 Thunderstorm in the Great Canyon ,USA
 Thunderstorm in the Great Canyon ,USA
Fishing in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam
Fishing in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam

 Castelluccio di Norcia: Town in the Plains of Castelluccio
 Castelluccio di Norcia: Town in the Plains of Castelluccio

Cape Town South Africa. A home is swallowed by the ever-changing landscape
 Cape Town South Africa. A home is swallowed by the ever-changing landscape

140KG Sheep (about 300 lbs) in  Isla Riesco ,Chile
 140KG Sheep (about 300 lbs) in  Isla Riesco ,Chile

 Eastern Screech Owl, protects its nest
 Eastern Screech Owl, protects its nest

Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography



Aurora Borealis in Alaska
 Aurora Borealis in Alaska
                                         Ferry, with passengers on board, East Sussex, in a violent storm
                               Ferry, with passengers on board, East Sussex, in a violent storm 


                                        'Mist and Reflections' taken on Crummock Water, Cumbria
                                           'Mist and Reflections' taken on Crummock Water, Cumbria


                                       'Ghost of Rannoch Moor' , at the edge of Loch Rannoch in Scotland
                                    'Ghost of Rannoch Moor' at the edge of Loch Rannoch in Scotland

                                      A steam train rattling over a bridge
A steam train rattling over a bridge 

Alaska The line between smoke and clouds blurs above the Toklat River East Fire
 Alaska The line between smoke and clouds blurs above the Toklat River East Fire
American Samoa The white sand and tropical waters of the National Park of American Samoa
 American Samoa The white sand and tropical waters of the National Park of American Samoa
Arizona A storm lights up Grand Canyon National Park in this photo taken from Lipan Point on the South Rim
 Arizona A storm lights up Grand Canyon National Park in this photo taken from Lipan Point on the South Rim
Avalanche Lake (left) in Glacier National Park, Montana,

 Avalanche Lake (left) in Glacier National Park, Montana,
ew Mexico Birds take flight in the steamy wetlands of the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge
 New Mexico Birds take flight in the steamy wetlands of the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge
 Starling birds fly into the orange sky over Carmarthen, Wales
 Starling birds fly into the orange sky over Carmarthen, Wales


Autumn leaves at Polesden Lacey, Surrey
Autumn leaves at Polesden Lacey, Surrey



Source-Dailymail.co.uk