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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:26:52 -0400

evocativesynthesis: The Panorama House

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:53 -0400

evocativesynthesis:

The Panorama House

evocativesynthesis: The Final Push (by Mark Payton)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:51 -0400

evocativesynthesis:

The Final Push (by Mark Payton)

archenland: Greek Fjords by Dana

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:46:05 -0400

archenland:

Greek Fjords by Dana

infinitive-space: Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:33:29 -0400

infinitive-space:

Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany

travelingcolors: Wroclaw | Poland (by Swapartment)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:32:56 -0400

travelingcolors:

Wroclaw | Poland (by Swapartment)

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:32:25 -0400

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:30:19 -0400

reuterspictures: Thomas Peter’s blog on Poolside floods “At...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:15:44 -0400

reuterspictures:

Thomas Peter’s blog on Poolside floods

“At some point the helicopter made a right turn, dipping the side I was sitting on deep below the horizon. And there it was right below me, the epitome of the absurd flood picture: the baby-blue oval of a swimming pool evenly surrounded by muddy water. I trained my 300mm lens straight down and composed as well as I could, which was a challenge in the soaring air stream that nearly snatched my camera out of my hands. I fired off some 10 frames before the chopper leveled out. The picture was gone. No one else on board had seen it.”

post a photo of yourself?:)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:16:19 -0400

I have a few self-portraits on my flickr page, just click the “flickr” link on my sidebar.

cityandsummer: Reblog every time. So brilliant.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:21:50 -0400

cityandsummer:

Reblog every time. So brilliant.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:13:18 -0400

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:09:52 -0400

touchdisky: Mountain Road by Aerial Photography

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:01:16 -0400

touchdisky:

Mountain Road by Aerial Photography

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:41:21 -0400

orionfalls: Q’d

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:40:36 -0400

orionfalls:

Q’d

ancientart: As a New Zealander I thought it was high time I...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:55:14 -0400

ancientart:

As a New Zealander I thought it was high time I posted some archaeology a bit closer to home.

A very important Pacific archaeological site located on the south eastern coast of Raiatea, French Polynesia -the Taputapuatea Marae.

For those of you who don’t know, a marae is a sacred religious gathering place in Polynesian societies. This particular marae was already established by 1000 AD, and was once known as the religious centre and central temple of Eastern Polynesia. Here, people such as priests and navigators would meet to share knowledge and preform sacrifices to the gods.

Member of the Moari iwi Te Rangi Hīroa (anthropologist, politician), upon visiting the site in 1929 was overcome with grief due to the state of the once great marae, and consequently wrote:

I had made my pilgrimage to Taputapu-atea, but the dead could not speak to me. It was sad to the verge of tears. I felt a profound regret, a regret for — I knew not what. Was it for the beating of the temple drums or the shouting of the populace as the king was raised on high? Was it for the human sacrifices of olden times? It was for none of these individually but for something at the back of them all, some living spirit and divine courage that existed in ancient times of which Taputapu-atea was a mute symbol. It was something that we Polynesians have lost and cannot find, something that we yearn for and cannot recreate. The background in which that spirit was engendered has changed beyond recovery. The bleak wind of oblivion had swept over Opoa. Foreign weeds grew over the untended courtyard, and stones had fallen from the sacred altar of Taputapu-atea. The gods had long ago departed.

(ref: D. Hanlon, Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific)

Fortunately, as of 1994, the archaeological remains of Taputapuatea has been restored, and is currently being pushed to become a recognized United Nations World Heritage site.

Photos courtesy & taken by Pierre Lesage.

alseide-fiore: Kondyor Massif, Russia by NASAJPL on Flickr.This...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:28:15 -0400

alseide-fiore:

Kondyor Massif, Russia by NASAJPL on Flickr.
This is neither an impact crater nor a volcano. It is a perfect circular intrusion, about 10 km in diameter with a topographic ridge up to 600 m high. The Kondyor Massif is located in Eastern Siberia, Russia, north of the city of Khabarovsk.

sixtensason: Volker Giencke, Gewächshäuser Botanischer Garten...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:24:10 -0400

sixtensason:

Volker Giencke, Gewächshäuser Botanischer Garten der Universität Graz, 1991-1995

source:

http://www.giencke.com/index.php?page=projects&lang=de&do=list&id=005

archatlas: Cities Sze Tsung Leong Cities is an ongoing series...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:22:37 -0400

archatlas:

Cities Sze Tsung Leong

Cities is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 2002, that depict a wide range of urban formations throughout the globe, from medieval towns to recent constructions, and that together form a picture of the world, specifically through its cities, at this particular moment in time at the beginning of the twenty-first century.