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ORCHID ~ Longwood Gardens Orchid Extravaganza.....




Family Tree by Ryan Buchanan




James Bond Island, Thailand




Drew Hopper Photographer




for ever by your side on 500px by Artur_Kl, Germany




glass | Patrick de KEIJZER

(via (469) Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas)




A demonstrator looks at a riot policeman during a protest marking the country’s 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Vera




A worker cleans the windows of a luxury hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 6, 2016.REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Spider Rock by Petra S.




Hampton Court Palace




Dead Man’s Cove after Sunset by Adam Steenwyk




Bottom of the Rainbow | Original by Great Wide World Photography

Taken in British Columbia, Canada




Leaning Out | Original by Great Wide World Photography

Taken in British Columbia, Canada




Going to the end of the day…




The three of life




Castelluccio in my heart ❤️ (presso Castelluccio Di Norcia 1452 Mt.)




Through a window




Postcard from the Dolomites… Here we are in Val di Funes, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy. Funes è un comune italiano di 2 616 abitanti della provincia autonoma di Bolzano in Trentino-Alto Adige, e con la località principale San Pietro, comprende le località di Tiso, San Valentino, San Giacomo, Colle e Santa Maddalena che si trovano nell'omonima valle, percorsa dal rio Funes.




Furious Trident by Fabien Dal Vecchio




Fjaðrárgljúfur | by chartno3

Gujuli (Spain) by Emiliano López




landscape | Silencio | by Juanrane | http://ift.tt/2dfcPa2




macro | Forest | by piobabi | http://ift.tt/2cW44hh




landscape | colors of Marocco | by amunteanu66 | http://ift.tt/2d6xtso




Daniel Parent




Himalaya - Kashmir - India (by Matthew Savage)







BURMA - Kakku pagodas




Montaña Tianmen, China…




Bern, Switzerland (by mbphotograph)

Highland Road, Scotland…

Czech Republic
Kate Eleanor Rassia




Martvili canyon… by Витя Лягушкин







by Kamil Kuklak




Flying over Europe at 37,000 feet.




Aragonese Castle, Ischia

repost from @emmegui - Qualcuno ha detto ferie?




Pillars of weathering Man-Pupu-Ner by Сергей Дегтярёв




nature | Chestnuts in autumn.. | by MakisBitos | http://ift.tt/2cAPSLK

landscape | Happy Time | by Isamtelhami | http://ift.tt/2di0D8i










Two-toned chimera lobsters, like the one pictured above, are the result of an extremely uncommon genetic mutation. They are so rare that a person has only about a 1 in 50,000,000 chance of capturing one.




Jordan McInally | Nice wee shot of the Milky Way




Devil’s Teeth by Nicholas Roemmelt

Any adventurous soul will appreciate the wilderness of Voyageurs National Park!










Salmon Spawning Season is Coming to Olympic National Park

Wild creatures of all kinds call Olympic National Park home, but the park’s temporary residents may be the most impressive, with the annual salmon migration offering one of America’s most exciting displays of wildlife.










What’s the Story Behind Tumacácori?

Situated at a cultural crossroads in Arizona’s Santa Cruz River valley, the ruins at Tumacácori National Historical Park have seen a lot in their time. Conflict and cooperation both shaped the history of this unique park, where settlers, soldiers, and European missionaries intersected with the native O’odham, Yaqui, and Apache people.

Abandoned Lapalice Castle, Poland...




Yuntaishan Global Geopark, Henan, China…




Found this one in Burma [4928 x 3264]

Source: http://imgur.com/GDMhaJx




Chinese fishing village on Gouqi Island [580 x 340]

Source: http://imgur.com/fCocOxR




Örebro castle, Sweden…




Gate of All Nations, Persepolis, Iran

The fact Cyrus the Great literally had a gate for all nations… This man, this Iranian, was truly the start and champion of human rights at the time when slavery was literally the height fashion. He literally went to battle to free slaves that had nothing to do with him, Jews enslaved in Babylon, simply because it was the right thing to do. He not only freed them like Americans claim they did black slaves but he gave them all land and a means to make money and a rift to freely practice their culture and religion, as all within the Persian empire were allowed to do. He didn’t just free the Jews and then keep them at the lower end of society. He gave them a means to prosper and to join everyone else’s social ranking. He made them feel important again.




Conwy, Wales, UK

-The Smallest House in Great Britain




Folkart Towers,Turkey…

Andros…




Sayan, Bali…




Taranaki bowl




Silent Reflection – Loch Rusky, Scotland – Karl Williams




Matthew Garrison




An artist has made glass shells for hermit crabs so that he can watch what they are doing. He also sells them online.










Greek designer Stelios Mousarris created a coffee table resembling the altered dream scene from the movie Inception, acted by Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page.

Old meets new in China.




The view from behind a frozen waterfall.







MalatyA | TÜRKİYE




Portmeirion, North Wales…

@HortopHortop




The light hitting a pelican’s beak just right, illuminating a trapped fish within.




Lysefjord (from Kjerag) - Norway by Giuseppe Milo // Edited by MFL




Glacial Eratic by Ayton.Images

Sauna










Derelict Farmhouse in the grasslands of Wales. [OS] [1024 x 683].

Source: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8242/28903914443_823afa31a7_b.jpg




The statue stands six feet tall and sits near the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. Scientists built this monument to honor lab rats. It’s a symbol of gratitude for their sacrifices to science.










VeinViewer: an infrared device that detects the location of a patient’s veins and projects them on the skin so doctors and nurses don’t miss. It was developed by the Christie Medical Holdings company. They mainly show surface veins

Neon Luminance is part of a collaboration between Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard over at From the Lenz. The duo dropped high-powered Cyalume glow sticks in a variety of colors into various waterfalls in Northern California and then made exposures varying from 30 seconds to 7 minutes to capture the submerged trails of light as the sticks moved through the current.










Two rivers meet in Switzerland. The blue water on the left comes from Lake Léman (Geneva), the turbid water comes from the Arve river, which is full of silt from Mont Blanc and the Chamonix Valley.

Tokyo-based photographer Danilo Dungo uses drones to take stunning pictures of Japanese cherry blossoms. Every spring, he goes to the Inokashira Park to admire the blossoms, and while regular photography capture the park’s beauty, the drones reveal something else altogether. When seen from a great height, the lake Inokashira Park lake appears to be entirely covered in blossoms! Resembling pollen in a river stream, the blossoms turn the lake a surreal pink, a view unseen by most before the drone age







Pictures of blue lagoon in Iceland. It’s a geothermal spa is one of the most visited attractions in Iceland.













Bioluminscent trees could light up our streets! Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s team are turning their attention to bioluminescent jellies and bacteria. By merging their light producing compound with plants, the team envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night




Jyväskylä, Finland

Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, the southernmost active volcano in the world, is known for the numerous ice fumaroles - also known as ice chimneys - that dot the surrounding landscape. The ice towers are created when snow and ice begin to form around gas escaping from the pressurized caves beneath the ground. These caves are of special interest to astrobiologists, as they are untouched by humans and contain only extremophile bacteria and fungi. It is believed that such caves may exist on Mars, suggesting that it may be possible for life to exist there.







Laser cut from a sturdy mat board, this DIY build-your-own-treehouse kit designed by architect Thomas Houha includes architectural details such as bamboo railings, woodgrain floors, and a thatched roof.




Dyrhólaey - Iceland (by Biosaurus)




The Gathering of Demons




Kumanoza shrine, Kumamoto, Japan via 熊野座神社 PHOTOHITO




Rugged Residence by Janne Kahila 




Italian Alps (by mbphotograph)




Lake Como, Italy (by mbphotograph)




The Tree by the Sea by Questavia by Questavia







Although the fjords of Norway are renowned for their beauty, the 1,190 existing ones dotted across the country’s landscape present a major logistical challenge for residents, who often have to drive long distances around them. As an answer to this problem, Norway - one of the world’s leaders in technological innovation - has decided to build the world’s first underwater tunnel, which is projected to cost approximately $25 billion.

the sanctuary of the druids




St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold (11th century).

> Photo by Martyn Gorman (2009).




Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming by Mstraite




View from the Luxury box at the Pontiac Silverdome, Former Home to Detroit Lions. Photo by Johnny Joo [OS] [2048x1390].

Source: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7548/16057108746_d1b1cb0837_k.jpg




Lombard Street…




San Francisco by Phoenix Wang

Decommissioned kids rides on a scrapyard, Japan [4592x3448]

Source: https://i.imgur.com/nr0FCYn.jpg




Barn falling off into a swamp. Photo by Peter Stratmoen [OS] [1024×683].

Source: https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8208/29808324966_df351a8dca_b.jpg




Bisogna amare queste meraviglie per viverci…




- Plan de métro







An 80-year-old tortoise and her babies.




Moonlit dreamscape by Zach Allia




Infinite Space by yoshiki fujiwara







Skyfall by lolongan

The answers are in the silence.










Paris Saint-Lazare is one of the six large terminus railway stations of Paris. It is the second busiest station in Paris, after the Gare du Nord. It handles 275,000 passengers each day.




The Château de Maintenon is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir département of France.




Tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville




Helmet of King James II




Viking axe head. 1030 years old, found in Denmark




Norway - Geirangerfjord

Telluride Colorado




Couleur Provence…




Matin calme…




jeune plantation de lavande




Champs de coquelicots dans le Luberon










At the Per Aquum Niyama resort in the Maldives, customers can dine with the fishes while seated at an underwater restaurant.

To reach the restaurant, called Subsix, diners must take a speedboat 500 meters from the coast to its offshore location. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows allow visitors to observe over a hundred different coral reef species, making sure that it will be a dining experience that they’ll never forget.













Red Tides

Red tides, a common term for the more proper name of “harmful algal blooms” (HABs), occur when colonies of algae—simple ocean plants that live in the sea—grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals and birds. The human illnesses caused by HABs, though rare, can be debilitating or even fatal. As the name suggests, the bloom of algae often turns the water red.

But not all algal blooms are harmful. Most blooms, in fact, are beneficial because the tiny plants are food for animals in the ocean. In fact, they are the major source of energy that fuels the ocean food web.

Bryce Canyon in early light.







Byōdō-in Temple, Uji / Japan (by Paul Freeborn).




Last light at Sasso Lungo

by Merlin Kafka




desert beauty by katon241162




Yichang, Hubei, China…




the “Meeting Place”…under the clock at St Pancras railway station…




cobra foliage…




Forgotten Bugattis [1600 x 1200]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/s7LtNXS.jpg




Sepia by zartl13




Summer Freshness/Winter Frostiness by Subha_Sebastian




an other world by lanz2002

Father and Son by GEMCAM




Cloudy Sunset by Like_He




Vestrahorn © by RuneAskeland




Life is beautiful by gundogdugurkan




Tree with buttress roots in Wooroonooran National Park in Queensland, Australia.

by John and Jean Strother on Flickr.




Cume da Pedra da Gávea by placeswow




Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland by scotts_shotz




Imperial ramp of Domitian opens to public

For the first time since it was discovered in 1900, a monumental ramp built by Emperor Domitian in Rome opened to the public on Tuesday, October 20th. (2015) Domitian built the ramp in the second half of the 1st century A.D. to connect the Roman Forum, the administrative and political heart of the city, to the imperial palace complex of the Palatine, the city’s center of power. With high walls flanked by storerooms, the imperial ramp went up seven levels with six turns between them and was as much as 35 meters (115 feet) high. Of the seven original ramps levels, four remain, but they are more than sufficient to convey the majesty of the space and the symbolic significance of the steep ascension from popular politics to imperial might…

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/38928













Dugong feeding on seagrass…

Expo City © by photoevecolon








































Spectacular Views Of The Night Sky From The Cockpit

Airplane pilots literally have first row seats to witness the most spectacular scenes of the night.

Circular Natural Sculptures by Martin Hill

Environmental artist Martin Hill salvages the rummages of nature, such as leaves, branches and stones among other organic materials to create an installation series inspired by the profound metaphor of the circle.










Pristine Stairways Of Museum Covered In A Splatter Of Rainbow Paint

Painter Leon Tarasewicz inserts bizarre paint splattered flights of stairs into the pristine exhibition halls of Warsaw’s National Gallery of Art, dramatically welcoming spectators with splashes of bright color with every step into the museum.

Artists Ray Villafane and Sue Beatrice teamed up to create this sand sculpture of an elephant playing chess with a mouse.










The Great Blue Hole is an underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. The hole is 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave during the last ice-age.




An NY subway car, 5 years after it’s retirement. This is located in the Atlantic ocean, off the coast of Delaware to South Carolina. 2,500 cars were put there from 2007 - 2010 by the NY MTA.

























natsu3390  -  https://twitter.com/natsu3390  -  https://natsu3390.tumblr.com/

Marvel Lake // Kyle Kuiper




























Philip Jackson. 1944.

Winner of National Peace Sculpture Competition,
Manchester City Council, 1987.
Elected Fellow Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Sydney, Australia by theinkedshooter




Semur en Auxois, Burgundy, France




Night in Petropavlovsk, Kamchatsky, Russia







Aberdeen, Hong Kong




abandoned bus…




Silent Lake







via the death of the summer by Michael Böhmländer / 500px
Autumn Leaves




“fire in the NORTH SEA” - Sotra, Norway by jappern




Overlooking Wild Goose Island | Glacier National Park

Instagram: Macala Elliott Photography




Chiba, Japan

Golden path by Hanson Mao(毛延延)




Traveling in Tokyo




Edinburgh, Scotland, UK













The Guardian Readers’ Travel Photography Competition: September 2016

The Guardian Readers’ Travel Photography Competition: September 2016




Kirkjufell, Iceland




Old Man of The Woods (Strobilomyces Strobilomyces floccopus) | by M Fortune               

(via (42) Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas)































Rich Sketches Of Travels And Adventures Collected As Layered Vintage Artwork

Artist Dina Brodsky shares exquisitely detailed illustrations of weather-beaten pages of vintage quality, covered into adventurous illustrations of travels and realistically penned memories.

Over / Underwater










Iron cage for protecting graves from robbers. Scotland, 18th century




birthplace of rock n’ roll…







Cemetery of the lost baskets. Photo by kiekmal. [1600 x 1067]

Source: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7623/28851884005_d4f269136d_h.jpg







Museum Hakone, Kanagawa. Japan.




“Going To Sleep”
Wisconsin Horizons By Phil Koch.
http://phil-koch.artistwebsites.com



















An olive oil soap factory in Syria.

#Alekodias
#BoaTarde #Amigos…
#BomFeriado




Valley village | Tibet







Chile




Harder Klüm, Switzerland




A nurse is looking for a vein on the hand of a premature baby.




boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953…




All around us




Hunua falls | @wavelasso | @normal_tim




Meteora, Greece




Hungry fishes © by Photox0906




MONTSENY © by Lluisdeharo

Heart-warming Dog Portraits Captured In The Red and Gold Glory Of Autumn

Austrian photographer Anne Geier has dedicated an autumn photographic series to beautiful portraits of dog.













Levitating Realistic Cloud Speakers Which Crackle With Lightning

Design firm Richard Clarkson Studio and flotation specialists Crealev have collaborated on a joint project to manufacture levitating clouds speakers which play music.

Granite Lake in the Cabinet Mts. Wilderness




Leaning Out | Original by Great Wide World Photography

Taken in British Columbia, Canada







Abandoned Elf house in Iceland [1064 x 1660]

Source: https://guidetoiceland.is/image/227620/x/0/drangshlid-rock-and-the-elves-4.jpg










Perfectly preserved ancient roman gate in Lugo, Spain. Lugo is the only city in the world to be surrounded by completely intact Roman walls from 3rd century AD

Iridescent and Environmentally Friendly Bike Path Lights Up After

Poland has launched a stunning glow in the dark bike path, which lights up in an iridescent blue light at no cost to the environment and allows people to travel on their bikes at night without the hazards of poor lighting







A Creatively Creepy Climb Down The Stairs And Into The Jaws of Art

Norway based street artist Skurk paints a clever anglerfish which has appropriately positioned light fixtures in its eyes and “angler” to lure people into his work.




Lake Walk in Duluth Minniesota by Like_He




Perfect in Pink  | vividessentials

A Story of Smartphones and Manipulations

Asmo Turunen, an artist from Finland, ingeniously fuses beautiful landscapes with photographs that are taken using smartphones, giving birth to surreal creations.




This is the border between Bhutan and India. India is on the right.

fungus | Alan Ligh




The Château des ducs de Bretagne is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France; it served as the centre of the historical province of Brittany until its separation in 1941.

























Constellation of Lasers Project On The Ceiling Of An Ancient Church

Paris-based installation artist Miguel Chevalier binds art and artifice together through the digital medium by doctoring lasers to become a blinding constellation projected onto the ceiling of the revered and ancient Saint-Eustache Church in Paris.







A Rare Viking Sword, 10th/11th century

In excavated condition, with broad pattern-welded blade of flattened hexagonal section, iron hilt comprising cross-guard of tapering rectangular section and slender pommel of ‘tea cozy’ form, each inlaid with a series of silver quatrefoils within a linear framework, and later wood grip.

Vulcania by cmoon view 




























TOP TEN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR CONTEST WINNERS

1. Dylan Shaw

2. Danilo Dungo

3. Yvonne Baur

4. Reynold Dewantara

5. Shivesh R.

6. Thierry Bornier

7. Andy Dines

8. Antonio Leong

9. Aashit Desai

10. Julia Wimmerlin




Hummingbird sharing water with bees

Picture number 9 not there.

Neurobiologist Photographs Stunning Microscopic Details In Neon Illumination Of Tiny Lifeforms

Chemically illuminated microscopic organisms are the highlight of photographer Igor Siwanowicz in his recent series attributed to his experience and scientific awakening while serving as a neurobiologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus.




lucca italy

Forgotten Ship (by Beboy photographies)




Moonrise over the Carp River - Ontonagon, Michigan, United States (by Jiqing Fan)




Glorious sunset.













Amazing Africa




TREES by Nasser Osman +nature +reflection, stars, dead tree, red tree, TREES, nasserosman




Wheat fields by Mia Morvan

by  Nobuhiro Suhara




http://johnnoe.pixels.com




Flood and pool.

This incongruous aerial photo was taken in the German Lander of Saxony-Anhalt, flooded in 2013 by the Elbe River.

Loz

Image credit: Thomas Peter/Reuters







Cathedral Caves

In the very South of New Zealand the Cathedral Caves are a highlight along the coastal road. They are located in the cliffs of Waipati Beach where a passage leads through the rocks. The two main caves are joined together and measure just on 200 meters. What makes them so spectacular, though, is their impressive height. The passage reaches up to 30 meters which also gave the connected caves their name “Cathedral Caves”.




The cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis, the first aircraft to complete a non-stop transatlantic flight




Владимир Ушаков - Зимняя ночь




Bighorn Canyon

Crystal clear waters in Lake Tahoe.
Location Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
Photo by @lakeshoresup




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Twin Lagoon, Coron, Philippines
Photo by @danielrjrj




Scott Monument, Edinburgh / Scotland (by Artur Milota).




Mae Ya II on 500px by Rosen Velinov, Vantaa, Finland




Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland…

The Throne Room at the heart of the Bronze Age palace of Knossos, considered the oldest throne room in Europe. Crete, 15th century BC
















Spectacular Travel Photography Collected From Around The World

True Living is a dedicated page of travel and adventure photography which features spectacular images from all over the globe

Paris Through Its Storefronts

Pixartprinting in collaboration with photographer Sebastian Erras tells the tale of Paris, through their photographic memoir ‘Paris Re-tale’, exploring the assortments of small business stores scattered across the enterprising city




























Surreal Colored Pencil Sculptures Inspired by the Sea by Jennifer Maestre

Artist Jennifer Maestre creates exquisite, otherworldy sculptures compromised by colored pencils. Inspired by the movement and shape of sea urchins, each piece seems to bloom and float in the air gracefully, as they would in the ocean.

cauldron shop…





Perfect waves at Impossibles, bali.




Evening light, Riessersee by Dag Ole Nordhaug




























Stunning Faceless Mural by Seth Around the World

French muralist Julien Malland aka Seth (previously featured here) has traversed to the far corners of the world, leaving his faceless urban tapestries from China to New Zealand and beyond. Seth’s murals are symbolic of the unfinished stories and  forgotten identities of the memories they represent, and more so of the skin of the walls they adorn. Each building, location and street is deeply immersed with history, trauma and human interaction that has eroded with time. Seth’s art seeks to re-explore the emotional tales left untold at the scenes as his obscure figures watch reality unfold.

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California was the first U.S. state to specify the use of chemical castration as a punishment for child molestation,

Afghanistan, 1996 - Ruins of Kabul from civil war.

James Nachtwey










Blue Lagoon by JohanEickmeyer






















richard bowler photographs the night life around his home in kent

I walked passed The Hairy Fig just this morning.

Not a euphemism by the way.

minibike 1896…




Grand Orient Express fading into Belgian oblivion [1100 × 1495] 2009

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/5083tn/grand_orient_express_fading_into_belgian_oblivion/




nature | Light and colors.. | by MakisBitos | http://ift.tt/1GR2ycm




White Light by azul_momento































The Stunning Winter Night of New Zealand

Astronomy photographer duo Jake and Jo’s search for incredible night sky took them to New Zealand where they have spent an entire winter marveling at the exquisite night sky

fototripper ~ 'The Darkest Dark Hedges’







A frozen geyser in Iceland.







Tollymore Forest Park, Northern Ireland




the Earth is lumpy…































Aerial View of Vendors: A Photography Series

Netherlands-based communications officer Loes Heerink takes beautiful photographs of Vietnamese vendors, paying tribute to the hardworking members of the society.

there are about thirty three thousand urban foxes in bristol. though the population remains stable, some argue for a cull, viewing them as dangerous. ecologists, however, counter that killing the foxes would be pointless as they are territorial (with a territory of about thirty hectares on average), and when you kill one another simply claims the territory.

notes photogrpaher sam hobson, “using a flash with nocturnal wildlife is a contentious issue, especially out in the wild …where many animals are not used to artificial light and a flash can cause temporary blindness. but urban foxes …are used to artificial light, so a low powered, indirect camera flash is no different to the sudden reflection of a car headlight. i introduced it very slowly, observing their reactions at every step.”




Fossils lodged in a piece of marble.




Norway by maxrivephotography




Abandoned Hillbilly Theme Park Dogpatch USA - AR [1920x1080]























PERFECT PLACE TO LAY DOWN THREE BLACK CANDLES, TWO FROG HAIRS AND A HALF EAR OF A LIVING LEFT HANDED PIG – TO SCREAM OUT YOUR DARKEST WISHES.

Ten of New York-based artist Ray Villafane’s most intricate jack-o’-lantern carvings. Happy Halloween!

(Source)

On the last day of Halloween, my true love gave to me

Jack-o’-lanterns that look like Chucky

Seceda,Südtirol ~ Alps, Italy ~ Manuel Widl







Venice of the North.

Ph:DanSpb

1950s vintage kenworth mounted atop a pole at an abandoned truck repair yard along interstate 40 / old route 66. By eyetwist. [2048 X 1365]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/583ne4/1950s_vintage_kenworth_mounted_atop_a_pole_at_an/




Danau Bratan, Bratan, Bali, Indonesia













by  Takashi































Photographs of Hong Kong in Neon Lights


Qatar based photographer Abdelmounim Zaki explores the streets of Hong Kong with his lens, taking beautiful oversaturated photographs of the city.

Lavender Sunrise

by Antony Spencer




Sunflowers

by B’Rob




Bamboo Forest

by Trey Ratcliff




Frozen Forest

by Evgeni Dinev




Bolivia

by Victoria Rogotneva




Terraced Rice Field At Sunset

by Junya Hasegawa




Symmetry

by Atif Saeed




Aspen Cathedral

by Ken Lee




Trees Watching Sunrise

by Larry Lefever




Labyrinth

by Lina Gunawan




Magic Forest

by deep21































Artist Transforms Ordinary Beer Bottles Into Beautiful & Delicate Leaf Jewelry

Minnesota based stained-glass artist Brian Western has skillfully manifested his love for beer and glass art by creating a delicate and ethereal collection of glass leaf jewlwery. With the use of bottles from Leffe Blonde, Tripel Karmeliet, Victory Old Horizontal, Anchor Steam, and Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, he has merged both passions beautifully.

Also crafted from wine and whiskey bottles, and antique German glass, you will find other jewelry pieces in the shape of insects, adorable animals and mythological creatures

First low tide after Hurricane Matthew.

Photograph by Gabriel Friedrich.




Rakotzbrücke, Germany




Wolf pups singing their hearts out

Source: http://bit.ly/2eheOKr







*SPAIN ~ Baños de la Encina’s major attraction is its Moorish castle, which is both an historical and an artistic monument. Notable for its fifteen ten metre high towers, the fortress was constructed on the orders of Al-Hakam II, who dominated the area, and was completed in 970.







Château d'Agassac -  @Agassac
Ludon-Médoc,  Médoc, France.

http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/photos.htm

Château d'Agassac is a Haut-Médoc wine estate 15 minutes from the city of Bordeaux, dating from the 13th century.




first snow…







White Sands Grass




Owl Creek Pass, Colorado




Trunked Up

Owl Creek, Colorado




Dawn Breaking in Bryce Canyon




Maj by eduardgorobets




Iceland: Impressions - The enchanting sea landscapes :-))) by SwissFiveNine

3rd Eye Cave. Big by Juan Pablo de Miguel




The Abyss




Abandoned Armenian church in Eastern Turkey (Ani) [1200 x 808]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/4ywirj/abandoned_armenian_church_in_eastern_turkey_ani/




“Light Against the Light” by Tóth Gábor Gyula




At the north-eastern coast of St Miguel, Azores, Portugal by Yiannis C.




“The Back Nine”
Strawberry Creek Golf Course. Bristil, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Horizons By Phil Koch.
http://phil-koch.artistwebsites.com




Река Синяя, Якутия




Incredibly couloured ivy on National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland taken by Anna Kowalów.




Let’s go fishing…  by Jeff S. PhotoArt on Flickr.









The quartz crystal shaped theater jutting out of the ground, designed by Denis Laming is at the Futuroscope Science Park. It houses a cinema screen as high as a 7-storey building and is an awesome must see!

Busan, South Korea




Palafitas by Carlos Grillo & 500px




Traditional Maori carving from Rotorua, New Zealand




Wooden Bridge at Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina by Mevludin S. 




Avantine Keyhole by Nicolas Grevet at St. Peter’s Basilica




1934 Ford…

Abandoned house in Parc national de l'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé : Sentier Chemin-du-Roy. [4160x3120] [OC credit to /u/forfal from /r/quebec]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/51bvhw/abandoned_house_in_parc_national_de/




Abandoned car in Swedish forest… (album in comments) [1600x900]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/558ej2/abandoned_car_in_swedish_forest_album_in_comments/







Inca Terracing into the Peruvian Andes [6000x4000]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/562rya/inca_terracing_into_the_peruvian_andes_6000x4000oc/




Kyoto, Japan Autumn Leaves
まっすぐ by ( ´_ゝ`) Sho on Flickr.




For the past 70 years, nature has been gradually reclaiming an abandoned warehouse in the Taiwanese city of Tainan.







Watkins Glen State Park [OC][2560x1440] ✈

Letchworth State Park in Castile, NY [OC] [5184 × 3456] ✈







Beautiful fall colors on display at the iconic Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge [OC] [800x1200] ✈




Summer memories - sunsets on the lake




From imgfave.com.




An eerie photograph of Sparrows over the Netherlands.




A blue Mycena mushroom.










This 18-foot-tall female Ocean Atlas sculpture can be found off the coast of the Bahamas. It was designed artist Jason deCaires Taylor. It’s part of an underwater museum called MUSA

Beautiful Akbaital Pass in the Pamirs, Tajikistan by Yuri Biryukov [1600x1055] ✈




Sand storm in kuwait [7087 x 4724]✈




The roof of the world, Gokyo Ri Peak - Nepal 5357 m 4000X2579 [OC] ✈




Attabad Lake And Karakoram Mountains, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan | By ssSUH [1277x850] ✈




It is good to be a swinger of birches




Mt.Fuji, Japan by Shumon Photography






















Stunning 3D Laser Engraved Lake Maps From Wood And Aluminium by Michal Porycki

Michal Porycki from Handy Project is one-half of a father and son company based in Poland has a passion to create art inspired by topographical maps with the use of laser technology.

maxrivephotography ~ Here you see the remains of what once was a forest in Torres Del Paine, Chile – a tourist who decided to burn some toilet paper in the middle of a hot summer day did the job here….. Let’s take care of the world we like to live in so future generations of EVERY living being will be able do the same after us



















photos by alex robciuc of the maramures, a small county in transylvania, here in autumn.




Naran Town is a medium sized town situated in upper kaghan valley which is a part of Khyber Pakhtun khwa province of Pakistan. It is one of the most beautiful part of northern areas in pakistan which is elevated 2500 meters above sea level

Sefton’s Garden, Aoraki National Park, New Zealand ~ Patrick Marson Ong







The Japanese Garden at the Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada.




Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens




Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France by Jean-Michel Priaux




Borderline by Jean-Michel Priaux on Flickr.































TOP TEN WEIRDEST MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD

1. Icelandic Phallological Museum - Reykjavik, Iceland

2. Dog Collar Museum - Leeds, England

3. Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum - Osaka, Japan

4. Barbed Wire Museum - Kansas, USA

5. National Mustard Museum - Wisconsin, USA

6. Le Musée des Vampires - Paris, France

7. The Sex Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands

8. The Garbage Museum - Connecticut, USA

9. Avanos Hair Museum - Avanos, Turkey

10. Meguro Parasitological Museum - Tokyo, Japan

The Serpent at Sky Art Desert Sculpture Garden ◉ Borrego Springs, California

St Johann Church, Santa Maddalena, Dolomites…




gauli margheriten ~ cmoon view ~ switzerland




lakeside serenity































3D Street Chalk Art by Kurt Wenner

U.S based artist Kurt Wenner is renowned for introducing art installations on the streets, delighting commuters and city-dwellers with Renaissance style paintings.

Wolves develop close relationships and strong social bonds. They often demonstrate deep affection for their family and may even sacrifice themselves to protect another member of their pack. Photographer Klein-Hubert captured these photos of a grey wolf and her pups in Canada.




A 2,000 year old Roman perfume bottle.




Wolf Moon by Sergio Smiriglio




Saihō-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan ~ by bettylamby







Abandoned apartment complex on the beach in Russian Kamchatka [1280x960]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/2fvd8b/abandoned_apartment_complex_on_the_beach_in/




Bess Hamiti




New Day by Shuggie!! on Flickr.




Mishaka pond, Nagano, Japan via GANREF | 静寂の刻

Mt.Fuji by Fumikazu Suzuki via TOKYOCAMERACLUB







Swim | YensenTan Photography
frog in the water Swim | YensenTan Photography 500px |







Bibury, Gloucestershire, England




Takachiho Gorge, Gokase River, Japan.




Forbidden path …




Red Bridge II (by PacoAlcantara)

Stunning images from National Geographic's Best Photos of 2016 gallery created from over TWO MILLION images.




Extreme research: To track changes in sea ice, the Norwegian research vessel Lance drifted along with it for five months in 2015, on a rare voyage from an Arctic winter into spring. Passengers in the helicopter took a photo of their first glimpse of Lance from the air on their way in to live on the ship for six weeks. Search lights shine out over the polar night and cracks can be seen separating the ice floes from one-another





Dr Asim Sil leads a team of eye care specialists on a boat-camp for eye care in a remote part of the Sundarbans, India. These boats are often used in partnership with other NGO's, offering general healthcare facilities as well as eye health diagnosis to extremely impoverished villages deep within the Sundarbans. Dr Sil's team uses boats to get around the Sundarbans and often works from early morning to late at night on patients who would otherwise not have access to good eye care




Ruppell's Griffon vultures and African whitebacked vultures feast on a zebra carcass in the Serengeti. The more dominant birds have taken their fill of the choice meat, leaving the skin and bones for other birds. This featured in a story about why we need the scavengers to exist in our ecosystem




Russian 'skywalkers' are a band of roof-topping thrill-seekers that don't know the meaning of the word 'scared'. These young adults, some still in their teens, climb the tallest buildings and structures in Russia and the Ukraine and document their every move for the benefit of their large social media audience. Kyrill Vselensky, 24, and Dima Balashov, 24, are two of the most well known daredevils. Above, at the top of the Moscow University's main tower, Vselensky was standing on the edge of a ledge while Balashov photographed him




A pet saddleback tamarin hangs on to Yoina Mameria Nontsotega as the Matsigenka girl takes a dip in the Yomibato River, deep inside Peru's Manu National Park




Dressed for Mars, space engineer Pablo de León tests a prototype space suit at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center, where fine soil and fans simulate conditions on the red planet




A 16-year-old panda, YeYe, waits inside her enclosure at the Wolong Nature Reserve managed by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan province, China. YeYe's two-year-old cub is finishing panda training and will be released into the wild




Virunga Park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo undergo military-style training, including ambush tactics, due to the constant threat from armed groups




Parts of the Yellowstone region are wilder now than they’ve been in a century. Grizzlies are spreading. This one, in Grand Teton National Park, fends off ravens from a bison carcass. Workers moved it away from the road to keep scavengers and tourists apart




On a mountainside in Yosemite National Park, photographer Stephen Wilkes took 1,036 images over 26 hours to create this day-to-night composite

Coventry couple receive hate mail for bringing the tone of the area down.

While this photograph of a seemingly regular house may look unassuming to you, located twenty-six feet beneath this modest two-story suburban house in Las Vegas, Nevada lies a 5,000 square foot doomsday bunker.




It comes complete with a four-hole golf course, a sauna, a jacuzzi, a barbecue, and a swimming pool, and was designed to be able to withstand a nuclear explosion.
















It was purchased by a mysterious group called the Society for the Preservation of Near Extinct Species for $1.15 million in March 2014.

Wooden Chaos – The latest wood sculptures of Lee Jae-Hyo

Bigmo thanks for all of your pictures and jokes for this year, I have posted many on my Facebook page.Keep up the good work.

^ Ditto

But one suggestion Bigmo and with the day thats in it could I suggest that you break this thread into an annual thing like 'All New Picture Thread 2017' for one reason only, it takes ages for all the pictures to load especially on an ipad. Great thread though.HNY

Cheers and Happy New Year to you both.