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     [img]http://community.cdnbf.net/community.betfair.com/user/bigmo/9f422e80ab595a4146d33bf23584a22f.jpg?v=225000[/img   The Mayho Chinese Takeaway in Sunderland, where the 'face of Jesus' has mysteriously appeared in weathered paintwork  Mysterious street artist Escif has painted a building-sized light switch on the side of an apartment block in Katowice, Poland. He used a clever trompe l'oeil painting technique to make the button appear three-dimensional when viewed from a certain angle. |
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 Dubai . The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors) |
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 Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.  In northwestern Montana , USA . The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.  Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago.  From the outside it looks like this |
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 The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna , at a height of 117 meters.  Autumn camouflage  In the city of Buford , WY ( USA ) lives just one person. He works as a janitor and as a mayor.  In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou . The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes,and is the longest sea bridge in the world. |
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 Favelas of Brazil . The boundary between wealth and poverty.  The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe.  Balloons in Cappadocia. |
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 Very good Bigmo |
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 And this is the view looking down skyscraper BurjKhalifa.  Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park – New Zealand  Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.  Haus Rizzi – Germany. |
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 Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean. Isle of Lamu.  These phenomena can be observed in several places in China . This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu . The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.  Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! Not everyone will have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!  Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai ) |
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 Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid  Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world.  These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino , Poland . The cause of the curvature is unknown  The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge , Germany. |
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 Lena Pillars. Russia , the Lena River  In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place cannot merge because they have different densities.  Day and night. The monument in Kaunas, Lithuania.  Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall. |
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 Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010.  Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city.  The longest traffic jam in the world -- recorded in China . Its length is 260 kilometers [and that's 161 MILES, folks!  Thor’s Well a/k/a ”the gates of the dungeon” on Cape Perpetua , Oregon. At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape. |
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 View of the sunset from inside the wave.  Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar . Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.  An unusual tunnel in California’s Sequoia National Park |
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Fantastic pictures thanks Bigmo, some really fascinating ones in there.
Keep up the good work  |
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Great you're enjoying the thread Besty.
 A disused railway bridge appears to have been built using gigantic versions of Lego bricks. It is the work of street artist Megx - real name Martin Heuwold - who decided to transform the grey structure in Wuppertal, Germany.  Water vapour envelops an F-18 multi role fighter jet as it banks sharply during a flying display on the second day at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire.  A massive bonfire is built on the Shankill Estate in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the annual July 11 bonfire night to mark the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.  A runner tries to protect himself from an oncoming bull during the fifth bull run of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. |
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 21 August 1958: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques and Harry Secombe appear at the London Palladium in 'Large As Life'  Animal rights activists stage a protest against bullfighting on the eve of the San Fermin 2012 festival in Pamplona. PETA spokesman Ben Williamson says: PETA has protested at the annual event every year since 2002. The animal rights organisation argues that tormenting animals by chasing them through the streets and later torturing and killing them in the bullring is barbaric and should be banned...  A baby chimpanzee looks a little unsteady on his feet as he takes his first steps away from his mum. Photographer Konrad Wothe captured the youngster at play in the Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania, Africa.  People look at a metal structure filled with fire pots as Stonehenge is illuminated by Compagnie Carabosse from France, as part of the London 2012 Festival... |
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 The Crystal Lagoon at the San Alfonso del Mar resort, Chile, has been officially recognised as the largest swimming pool in the world by The Guinness Book of Records. It covers eight hectares and holds 250,000 cubic metres (66 millions gallons) of water. The pool is big enough to sail a boat on.  This photo of a lenticular or Flying Saucer cloud on Lion's Head in Cape Town, taken by Mary Hemsworth, is featured in a new book called Clouds That Look Like Things, published by the Cloud Appreciation Society.  Slovakian ice hockey fans pose during a screening of the 2012 men's ice hockey World Championship final between Russia and Slovakia at Milan Rastislav Stefanik square in Bratislava.  Processed Solar Dynamics Observatory images in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet show plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona.  Holy Batcave! At first glance the inside of this cave looks no different to any other, but Hubbard cave in Tennessee is home to hundreds of thousands of bats, forming huge dark patches on the walls of the cave. |
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 8 March 2002: A message is seen on the flowers left by Eric Sykes at Spike Milligan's funeral in Rye.  Romain Mattei photographed what looks like a monkey massaging a stray cat on a pavement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, the cheeky monkey was doing the moggy a favour by searching for fleas.  An inmate is pushed by a bull during the Angola Rodeo, a prison rodeo at Louisiana State Prison in Angola, Louisiana. The Angola Rodeo was first held in 1965 and features prisoners and staff competing in events ranging from bareback horse riding to Guts and Glory, in which inmates attempt to grab a poker chip that has been tied to the back of a Brahma Bull.  Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista breaks his bat as he hits into a double play during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Mo. |
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 Visitors walk through the tulip and daffodil fields during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival near La Conner, Washington.  Out-of-control plant has consumed almost the entire house in Cradley Heath, West Midlands.  Violent clashes took place on the streets of Belfast following an Orange Order parade which resulted in a number of police officers being left injured.  Mollycoddled: The tiny ape has been so closely protected by its mother Rebecca since its birth on Tuesday that zookeepers have been unable to get close enough to determine its sex. |
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 A workman begins clearing up some of the 24 tons of fish which spilled onto a road in Kolobrzeg, Poland.  The Cure play at the Hope & Anchor pub in Islington, north London in December 1978.  Blondie at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, north-west London in March 1978.  The Clash at Music Machine in Camden, north-west London in July 1978. |
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 Shane McGowan at Gaz's Rockin' blues in Soho, central London, January 1980  Ian Dury and Wilco Johnson at the Michael Sobell Sports Centre, Finsbury Park, north London in December 1980  Joe Strummer and John Peel at a Wimpy bar in Piccadilly Circus, central London in July 1981  The Rolling Stones at the 100 Club in Oxford St, London in May 1981 |
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 Iggy Pop on a Leeds tour bus in March 1981  Prince at the venue in the Strand in June 1981  James Brown at The Venue in Victoria, south London, in September 1979.  Paul McCartney and Pete Townshend, charity concert for Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon, west London in December 1979  The Jam at Townhouse Studio, Shepherd's Bush, west London in August 1979. |
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 The Specials at the Hope & Anchor pub in Islington in 1979  Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder at Wembley Arena in September 1980  Bob Marley at the Crystal Palace Bowl in south-east London, June 1980 |
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 Johnny Rotten at a PIL press conference, Lancaster Gate Hotel, west London in October 1983  Stone Roses at the Blackpool Empress Ballroom August 1989  Led Zeppelin at Jason Bonham's wedding reception in Bewdley, Worcs in April 1990  David Bowie at Brixton Academy, south London in November 1991 |
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 Richey Edwards from Manic Street Preachers at The Hibernian on Fulham Broadway, west London in August 1991  Axl Rose from Guns n' Roses on their Use Your Illusion tour at Wembley Stadium in August 1991  Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Arena in July 1992  Pearl Jam at the Lollapalooza Festival in LA in December 1999 |
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 Sonic Youth at Brixton Academy in December 1992  Michael Jackson at the National Stadium in Bangkok,Thailand in August 1993  Kurt Cobain of Nirvana at the Zenith in Paris, February 1994  Oasis at an Earl's Court aftershow Party at Oxford Circus in May 1995 |
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 Thom Yorke from Radiohead at Brixton Academy in October 1994  Damon Albarn from Blur at the Royal Albert Hall in July 1996  Bob Dylan at The Feis in Finsbury Park, north London in June 2011 |
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 These bizarre jellyfish-like beings were dreamt up by a British scientist as an example of life 'not as we know it'. This is what evolution might have come up with on a world such as Saturn's moon Titan, Dr Maggie Alderin-Pocock believes. She envisages creatures that float through clouds of methane, scooping chemical nutrients into their gaping mouths. The aliens keep themselves aloft by means of dangling onion-like buoyancy bags, and communicate with pulses of light.  This huge sinkhole suddenly appeared on a main road in Changsha, capital of southern China's Hunan Province. The enormous hole opened up at around 1am and swallowed up a car - killing one and injuring a further three people.  A crop circle design which bears a resemblance to The Very Hungry Caterpillar has appeared in a field at Boreham Woods, near Lockeridge, Wiltshire.  This aerial view of the laser and light show on the Shard was photographed by Jason Hawkes from a helicopter circling Europe's tallest building. |
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 Lotus driver Romain Grosjean views the Tumbler, a vehicle from the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, on the Silverstone racetrack ahead of the British Formula One Grand Prix.  Players compete in the 2nd Swamp Soccer World Championships in Beijing.  This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012.  A rider shoots an arrow in a competition during the Ongkor Festival or Bumper Harvest Festival, in Gongaar, Tibet. |
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 A bull leaps over young bullfighter Gomez del Pilar after he abandoned his cape as he tried a pass on his knees in the bullring in Pamplona, Spain...  An Asian elephant takes a sand shower at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany.  Young gymnasts stretch during a training session at a sports centre in Nanjing. |
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Really much better with the descriptions Mo, thanks for putting them up.
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Thanks Ovalman and I agree it is better.
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 Visitors take photos in an ice cave in Ningwu County, Shanxi Province, China. The cave - believed to be three million years old - is more than 100 metres long and the ice remains all year round.  Members of the Red Bull Air Force team perform a formation over the the island of Bocaray in the Philippines.  A man shows off a knotweed root in the shape of a person on the streets of Xuchang in central China's Henan Province. Kong Lingfa says he bought the root from a peasant while passing through the Shengnongjia Mountains. The 30cm long root looks like a male body, complete with head, face, arms, legs, pen*s and bottom.  Kamljit Singh breaks coconuts on the head of his 10-year-old nephew Manpreet Singh in Amritsar, India. Both are members of The Bir Khalsa Sikh Martial Arts Group. |
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 Members of the Bir Khalsa Gatka group show their Guinness World Record medals for breaking 59 coconuts on a forehead with a baseball bat in a minute, at a press conference in Amritsar.  The 171 strong band of Hartlepool United supporters, dressed as Smurfs at Kings Cross Station, on route to cheer on their team against Charlton Athletic.  A rag picker searches for material in front of a group of Greater Adjutant Storks at a rubbish dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India.  The cuddly looking panther twins, with their clumsy big paws and ludicrously long whiskers, were born in late April. |
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 Feeling shy: Their permanent canine teeth do not come in until the age of one - and by the age of two panthers in the wild are usually independent of their mothers.  Beauty: Count House at Botallack, at St Just, Cornwall is one of the most stunning locations and stands on the cliffs of the Crowns Mine. It was the hub of the day-to-day running of the mine in the 1860s.  English charm: Towanroath Engine House at Wheal Coates Mine is a stone's throw to the rugged Cornish coast.  Borobudur at sunrise in Java, Indonesia. |
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 Nature: Witnessing a starling murmuration at Brighton Pier.  The centuries-old cave churches at Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey where 'fairy chimneys' can be seen and where early settlers made their homes.  Derwentwater in the Lake District, Cumbria.  Strength in numbers: Lisa Walker now has 35 piglets after two sows she adopted, along with two of her original animals, gave birth. |