A tongue of lava oozes out from beneath the recently cooled crust of a flow. The silica contained within, reflects the early morning sunlight, giving its surface a glassy sheen.
Photo and caption credit: Bruce Omori
A photograph of a Spanish dancer posing in her costume.
Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien, National Geographic
The pursuit by Cristobal Serrano, Spain
At a depth of 20 meters, lying face up on the sandy bed of the Sea of Cortez, Baja California, l was lying in wait to photograph a fishing cormorant. I was constantly forced to change my position since it was impossible to say from which direction the bird would come. With my fisheye lens l also wanted to get as close as possible to the action. Finally, everything fell into place: in my immediate vicinity the cormorant plummeted bullet-like into a shoal of grunts, scattering them in all directions to isolate individual fish’.
Coral sand by David Maitland, United Kingdom
The hard defensive calcarious structures (spicules) incorporated within the bodies of many soft-bodied marine invertebrates including Gorgonian corals, Sponges and Hoiothuria accumulate as “coral sand” on the sea floor and form a major constituent of many tropical white sandy beaches’.
This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis
How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…
The Magical World of Living Light
This is the mysterious spectacle of bioluminescence. Its hard not to revel in the beauty of this remarkable natural phenomenon. These glowing creatures are primarily a product of the ocean. They are the primary source of light in the largest and darkest area of habitable land on Earth, the deep sea. On land, they are most commonly seen as glowing fungus on wood (foxfire) or in the few families of luminous insects (fireflies).
Photographer Isabel Muñoz studied members of the Mara Salvatrucha gangs from Los Angeles and Central American prisons; her work was put on display in downtown Mexico City in October of 2008. Muñoz spent time in prisons in El Salvador photographing the intricate facial, chest and extremity tattoos that feature variations of the gang’s name, which is often abbreviated to “MS” or “MS-13.” The number 13 represents the 13th letter of the alphabet, “M,” referring to “La Eme,” or the Mexican Mafia. The combination of El Salvadorian and Mexican gang affiliations represents solidarity and alliance among Southern California Hispanic gangs. MS-13’s affiliation with Southern California is also exemplified by the words “Sureño” or “Sur,” meaning “Southern” and “South,” respectively, which are also often seen tattooed on MS-13 gang members. [x]
Popocatepetl between clouds, Mexico (by Cristobal Garciaferro)
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”
The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.
From top to bottom:
Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).
Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.
Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.
The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.
Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).
Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).
Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).
Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).
Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.
David Seymour
A boy amid devastation in Essen, Germany, 1947.
(Source: erospainter)
Unknown Photographer
Nikolai Antipov, Stalin, Sergei Kirov, Nikolai Shvernik, and Nicolay Komarov at Fifteenth Leningrad Regional Party Conference, Leningrad, 1926, gelatin silver print, 18 x 24 cm
Nikolai Antipov, Stalin, Sergei Kirov, and Nikolai Shvernik in Leningrad, 1926, 1936, Photogravure, 15.2 x 14 cm, published in S.M. Kirov Album, 1886-1934 (1936)
Josef Stalin, Sergey Kirov, and Nikolay Shvenrik, 1926, Halftone, 11.1 x 8.6 cmpublished in A History of the U.S.S.R., park 3 (1948)
Stalin and Sergei Kirov, 1926, Photogravure, 1949,15.2 x 11.4 cm, published in Joseph Stalin: A Short Biography (1949)