Inverted 1,776 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I like this image of Golda Meir and Anwar Saddat sharing a joke when their countries had been at war just a couple of years before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted April 18, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted April 18, 2019 I loved this photo. I walked through the gutted cathedral… then the crucifix shone from what remained of the altar, a symbol of defiance in the gloom: ROBERT HARDMAN is among first witnesses inside ravaged Notre Dame Robert Hardman for the Daily Mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Watching a nuclear test explosion in Nevada 1953 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Kennedy family in 1928 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Urban warfare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,612 Posted June 6, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted June 6, 2019 On 05/04/2019 at 23:28, Stick With Azeem said: Somewhere in Syria... Stuff like this always puts a smile on my face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,612 Posted June 6, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted June 6, 2019 A ‘one-in-a-million’ albino house sparrow spotted in a Scottish border town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon 2,692 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Margaret Bourke-Wright taking a photograph on top of New York's Chrysler Building c1934. Photo by Oscar Graubner. Saw this picture and I was awed to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beelzebub 2,508 Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Nsfw I often hear people saying ' the illegal bombing of... ' what's legal bombing by the way ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted August 1, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted August 1, 2019 “Defend the Sacred”: Standing Rock, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, 2016. Photo by Ryan Vizzions. Enlarge for best experience. Amazing shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBalon 2,692 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 A hungry child stares into a bakery window, Whitechapel in the 1930s by Edith Tudor-Hart. She used photography to highlight social inequality. The Conservative MPs who regularly laugh, grin, mock and guffaw when reminded of the impact of austerity on children have lost their humanity. But then again some really want to return to “the good old days”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted October 16, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 16, 2019 I love looking at old b/w photos from years gone by, they always send a tingle down my spine and this being (below) is one of them taken in 1860. Almanac: America's first aerial photograph © Boston Public Library Boston-as-the-eagle-and-the-wild-goose-see-it-by-James-Wallace-black-1860-Boston-public-library-promo.jpg On October 13, 1860, two years after the French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (a.k.a. Nadar) took images of Paris from a tethered balloon, James Wallace Black took a photograph of Boston from a balloon 1,200 feet up. Black (1825-1896), an innovative Boston photographer and portraitist, rode aboard Samuel Archer King's hot-air balloon, the "Queen of the Air," as it was tethered at Boston Common, to expose glass plate negatives. The resulting photo was titled "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It" – the first such aerial photograph in America. The first, but hardly the last. Today, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, aerial views of just about anywhere on Earth are available at our fingertips. Not to mention the advent of the drone camera, which allows just about anyone to get a bird's-eye view. Though when it comes to hands-on aerial photography, few can match Vincent Laforet. Following in the tradition of James Wallace Black, Laforet also photographs cities from above, only he does it hanging out of the open doors of helicopters, sometimes at 11,000 feet or more, often at night. "It was almost an out-of-body experience because it's just beautiful up there," he told correspondent Lee Cowan, who in 2015 went along with Laforet on a vertiginous flight over Miami. Cowan asked, "So, what is it that you're really looking for?" © Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It," by James Wallace Black, captured on October 13, 1860, from a balloon - the first aerial photograph taken in America. "I'm looking down there and I'm trying to make order out of chaos, looking for patterns, geometry, colour, and light," Laforet said. Still, for all the differences in technology and technique over the years, the aim of the photographer remains much the same, as Laforet said, "As a photographer, as a visual communicator, you try to find images no one has seen before. That's your goal." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/almanac-americas-first-aerial-photograph/ar-AAILARm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted March 13, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted March 13, 2020 An abandoned stretch of industrial railway track near Klevan in the Ukraine is overgrown with trees and foliage in the spring and summer months, making for a romantic tunnelling effect. Couples love to stroll here for photo moments and to steal kisses that are said to be good luck in the aptly named Tunnel of Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,612 Posted March 18, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted March 18, 2020 You know something serious is going on when this place has a picture taken of it like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 5, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 5, 2020 These old photos are mesmerising to me and as I mentioned many a time I love looking at old black&white photos. 1855 A cavalry camp showing people, horses and tents on the plains of Balaklava, during the Crimean War. British photographer Roger Fenton’s images from the war were among the earliest attempts to capture armed skirmishes through a lens. From 1853 to 1856, the Russian Empire faced off against the combined forces of British, French and Ottoman Turkish on the Crimean Peninsula, over the former’s demands to establish protection over Orthodox subjects of the sultan of Ottoman. Another major reason for the conflict was a running dispute between Russia and France over church privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic in Palestine. Approximately 250,000 lost their lives and the Crimean War ended in Russian defeat. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and a group of Union officers near Antietam Creek during the Civil War. Between 1861 to 1865, the northern American states, who were loyal to the Union, were embroiled in a bloody battle with southern Confederate states over several issues including the enslavement of black people. According to historians, between 750,000 to 850,000 people lost their lives in the conflict, which ended in Union victory. 1903 The first powered, controlled and sustained flight, performed by the Wright Brothers in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, U.S. on Dec. 17. Orville Wright was at the controls of the machine while Wilbur ran alongside to balance the vessel. The flight lasted 12 seconds, achieving a height of 120 feet (37 meters). 1908 A spinner in a cotton mill in Georgia, U.S. American sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine’s picture-driven survey of child labour in the early 20th century gave proof about its negative impacts, helping rally the society against the employment of children in the industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 6, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 6, 2020 The first photo was claimed to be fake I think it was as underneath the guys was a platform base or something but as I am scared of heights the photo always scared the shite out of me. 1932 Construction workers have their lunch atop the 69th floor of the RCA building in Rockefeller Center, in New York City. The staged photograph, titled “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” was part of a photographic promotional campaign for the skyscraper complex helmed by three photographers, Charles Ebbets, Thomas Kelley and William Leftwich, but it is not known which one of the three actually clicked the photo. At the time the country was experiencing the Great Depression and the picture became synonymous with American resilience and ambition in difficult times. 1937 The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg explodes as its flammable hydrogen gas caught fire over Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S., on May 6, leading to the death of 36 people. Among the many clicked on the day, Sam Shere’s photo became the most iconic and won the Editor and Publisher Award for best news picture for 1937. . 1940 A milkman makes a delivery on a London street devastated by German bombings during World War II, on Oct. 9, as firemen hose down the burning ruins. During the war, the German air force launched a deadly aerial assault against the U.K., where they targeted industrial towns and cities. The operation was popularly termed by the British press as the “Blitz.” Nearly 43,000 British civilians were killed in the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 10, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 10, 2020 1946 The world’s first electronic computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) being developed at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, U.S. 1953 Paul Overby, one of two drivers trapped in the cab of a tractor-trailer, is pulled to safety by a rope on the Pit River Bridge across Shasta Lake near Redding, California, U.S. on May 3. Overby and co-driver Hank Baum were rescued moments before the cab crashed down below. For the shot, Virginia Schau became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1954. 1967 A protester puts up a flower on a rifle held by Military Police personnel during a demonstration against Vietnam War, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Oct. 21. 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U.S. on Jan. 28. All seven crew members died in the accident, which was blamed on the degradation of the seal on solid rocket boosters due to cold weather. The launch attracted a great media attention, as it was carrying Christa McAuliffe – the first teacher to go into space. The blast took place just 73 seconds after launch, in full view of TV cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 18, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 18, 2020 Fast Work September 1932: A worker at the telegraph office receiving a telegram over the phone and transcribing it directly by means of a typewriter. Telegrams 11th January 1941: A telegram stall in a city street in wartime. Mail As Usual A postman collecting mail from a post box surrounded by bomb damage in the Old Kent Road, London, WWII. Urgent Message circa 1952: General Post Office workers transmit and receive telegram messages over the phone, transcribing them directly by means of a typewriter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Two participants of the 1857 Indian rebellion against British rule being hanged, notice how those being hanged & those hanging them are all locals, pretty much sums up colonial rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted August 7, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted August 7, 2020 Beirut explosion: Before-and-after images The explosion at a portside warehouse in Beirut sent devastating shockwaves across the Lebanese capital, decimating seafront buildings and causing widespread destruction. MORE PHOTOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Pyfish+ 2,773 Posted August 7, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted August 7, 2020 This is the one from Beirut that got to me. That's a medical centre and it still had to be operational despite the damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machado 1,710 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Not sure there's a thread for interesting pictures but how about these ice shards on Lake Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted August 19, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted August 19, 2020 Mauritius oil spill: Satellite images show removal operation Most of the oil on board was pumped out before the ship broke apart at the weekend but nearly 1,000 tonnes leaked into the sea causing damage to the rich marine ecosystem. Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious Why do oil spills keep happening? An environment ministry official in Tokyo said the Japanese team would assess the impact on coral reefs. They will also take with them special materials designed to absorb oil. FULL REPORT AND MORE PHOTOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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