A photograph captured from the 79th floor of the Index Tower, looking over the mystical clouds that formed over Dubai
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A red deer stag peers out from behind the trees of a pine forest during a snow blizzard in the Cairngorms; a flock of northern gannets and a pod of killer whales feed in the wake of a trawler off the Shetland Islands; a seal pup rests on a sandbank during a sandstorm at Donna Nook nature reserve, Lincs.
These are just a few of the stunning images of natural Britain featured in a new exhibition that documents the best of the 2020VISIONwildlife photography project.
The exhibition will run throughout May on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, and features the work of some of Britain’s top wildlife photographers.
The images were taken at different conservation projects across the country. Organisers believe the exhibition tells an “inspirational” story about some of the UK’s most vital ecosystems.
The images include stunning shots of some of the country’s rarest air, sea, and land animals, as well as national parks, nature reserves and mountain ranges.
A red deer stag in a pine forest in the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands, during a snow blizzard. The image is part of the 2020VISION photography project
A jetty reaching out over Derwent Water in the Lake District at dawn. The image is part of a new outdoor exhibition on the South Bank of the River Thames
A flock of northern gannets and a small pod of killer whales feeding in the wake of the pelagic trawler ‘Charisma’ in evening light, off the Shetland Islands
A seal pup resting on a sandbank during a sandstorm, in Donna Nook, Lincs. The seal population return to the area breed from October to December every year
A view of cliffs along the Trotternish landslip, on the Isle of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides. The exhibition will run throughout May on the South Bank of the River Thames
Another image from the exhibition shows a short-eared owl hunting over farmland with Burnham-on-Crouch in the background on Wallasea Island, Essex
A silhouette of a short-eared owl in flight at dusk at Worlaby Carrs, in Worlaby, Lincs. The exhibition features some of Britain’s top wildlife photographers
A basking shark feeding while being watched by a snorkeller off the coast of Cornwall. The exhibition documents the best of the 2020VISION wildlife photography project
A red squirrel jumps with a nut in its mouth, in Cairngorms National Park (left) and a barn swallow swoops down to feed a fledgling on a wire, in Perthshire,
Highland cattle put on fenland to graze the marsh at Woodwalton Fen nature reserve – a Special Area of Conservation in Cambridgeshire
A portrait of a European river otter in Wales, part of the 2020VISION wildlife photography project
Sunrise over chalk downland viewed from Wilmington Hill, IN Wilmington, South Downs National Park, East Sussex
A female wild boar female in woodland undergrowth (left), and a wild boar piglet (right), in the Forest of Dean, Glos
This photograph of a grey seal swimming beneath the cliffs of Lundy Island, in Devon will feature in the 2020VISION exhibition in London
A view from the summit of the Sgorr Tuath sandstone pinnacles, in the Assynt mountains, Scottish Highlands
An adult female hen harrier diving towards a nest site on the Glen Tanar Estate, in Grampian, Scotland
Suilven mountain in early morning light, in the Coigach and Assynt area of the Scottish Highlands – part of the 2020VISION exhibition
A red squirrel at a woodland pool, feeding on nut, in Scotland (left) and a portrait of a young Grey seal, in the Farne Islands, Northumberland (right)
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Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip: Palestinian refugee children play in a poverty-stricken quarter Photograph: Ali Ali/EP
Seahouses, UK: Puffins return to their summer breeding grounds on the Farne Islands as National Trust rangers carry out a puffin census Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Delhi, India: a woman looks from behind a brick wall of her house in the old quarter Photograph: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
Obertrum, Austria: A freshly-shorn alpaca stands in a pasture at Alpaca-Land farm Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP
Mumbai, India: A security guard sleeps outside a closed garment shop Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Visitors gather in the new ‘Rain Room’ installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan in New York City. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry. The piece, created by Random International, releases a 260-gallon per minute shower around visitors.Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images
An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak provincePicture: Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Photographer Ronald Wittek from Speyer, Germany photographed this group of marmots eating biscuits in the Hohe Tauern National Park in AustriaPicture: Ronald Wittek/Solent
A flash of lightning illuminates the steep sides of the Grand Canyon in ArizonaPicture: TRAVIS ROE / U.S. DEPT OF THE INTERIOR / CATERS NEWS
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Three girls take a break, Ilan Fain
Three girls take a break from the day inside a small Greek Orthodox Church in Nazareth. The camera used is a Canon 3D.
Canyon National Park, Jason J. Hatfield
A hiker looks onto the path before him in Bryce Canyon National Park in the middle of the night as the Milky Way stretches upward above. The photographer, who used a Sony A900, had been shooting the day’s solar eclipse.
Milky Way rising up from behind Mount Rainier, David Morrow
The photographer captured this image of the Milky Way rising up from behind Mount Rainier with a Nikon D800. “The stars almost looked as though they were erupting from the mountain and I knew this was a moment in time that I had to capture,” Morrow says.
Mummy, I Am Down Here, and Hungry! Bjorn Olesen
The morning this photo was taken was unusually quiet, Olesen says. “I was about to pack my bags I heard this juvenile Spectacled Spiderhunter (Arachnothera flavigaster) calling ‘chi-chit, chi-chit,’ trying to attract the attention of its parents above while flapping its wings.” Olesen snapped as many shots possible before the bird flew away seconds later. “[It was] the highlight of my Borneo Trip.”
Taken with a Nikon D3.
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Retratos das prostitutas de Nova Orleans em 1912.
In this post we will bring an attractive selection of black and white portraits of prostitutes of Storyville, made in 1912 by legendary photographer from New Orleans, Bellocq John.
Spanish pilgrimage to the Virgin del Rocio – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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Pilgrims from the Chipiona and Sanlucar de Barrameda fellowships walk the Playa de Vajo de Guia to board a ferry Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
Pilgrims wade across the Quema river Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
Azucena Alarcon, a pilgrim from the Fuengirola fellowship Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
Pilgrims depart from the ferry as they make their way to the shrine of El Rocio in the Donana national park Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
Pilgrims pray on their journey Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
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Outdoor Scenes – Week 5 Gallery – Traveler Photo Contest 2013 – National Geographic.
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From the national Geographic pics of 2012. Gorgeous, isn’t it ?
Photograph by Doug Perrine, Alamy
Pinpricks of light on the shore seem to mirror stars on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives.
The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of tiny marine life-forms called phytoplankton—and now scientists think they know how some of these sea beasts create their brilliant blue glow, we reported in March.
Various species of phytoplankton are known to bioluminesce, and their lights can be seen in oceans all around the world, said marine biologist and bioluminescence expert Woodland Hastings of Harvard University. (Also see “Glowing Sea Beasts: Photos Shed Light on Bioluminescence.”)
Men-ups, as pin-ups masculinas.
Google Translated:
Our society is built of stereotypes. Issues and gender differences - male and female - are treated by most of us naturally, as if they were born liking pink because we’re girls, or preferring to cart dolls, football house, because we are boys.
To deconstruct this idea, the American photographer Rion Sabean has created a series of photographs Men-ups! Restructuring the ways in which men are represented in the media from the moment that your models are photographed in poses traditional pin-ups while carry characteristic elements of the “male world”. With the project, the photographer aims to raise two important questions: why is sex when a woman poses that way, and when a man does, does not it? Why when a man acts in a more feminine (the way defined by society as female) this is funny or is out of context?
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