The amazing and cool photo thread

[Solo]

This actually scared the hell outta me.

Took me a moment to get my head around it, but when you realise its just the Moons shadow its not so bad

 

[Clytius]

 

[ilikewaffles11]

^ Where was that third photo taken? It looks awesome!

 

[GregTheStig]

Maybe for the co-pilot, but the guy behind him looks like he's going to troll him any moment

That guy looks like a gunner not a pilot. Though I could be mistaken.

I was thinking the same. The source said otherwise but I'll assume they were wrong.

Edit: USS Annapolis surfacing through ice. Not an accident, if you can believe it.

 

[Wiegert]

^ Where was that third photo taken? It looks awesome!

I found a shot of those buildings from another angle, and it said that it was taken somewhere in Georgia (the country, not the state).

 

[Clytius]

I found a shot of those buildings from another angle, and it said that it was taken somewhere in Georgia (the country, not the state).

Do you have a link to the pictures?

 

[Wiegert]

Do you have a link to the pictures?

Link

Looking at it again, I can't really tell if they're part of the same group of buildings, but I'm willing to believe they are. I reverse searched the image that was posted in this thread as well, but no location was given.

 

[Beerz]

They remind me of COD4.

 

[CodeRedR51]

They remind me of COD4.

Would make for a cool map.

 

[RocZX]

 

[Desmo46]

Grains of sand at high magnification. Source.

You have just made sand awesome

Agreed. 👍

The view of the effect of an eclipse

Woah!

I hope these are no reposts..

Cool to look at, yet creepy at the same time.

Back when bombers started looking like they could fly to the moon: A young 'cowboy' looks over the Convair YB - 60, Edwards Airforce Base, Callifornia, 1953

👍 @ both.

 

[Carlos]

Edit: USS Annapolis surfacing through ice. Not an accident, if you can believe it.

I wonder how that felt inside

I found some other cool things under the microscope!

A wood or heathland ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip

Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells

The nylon hooks and loops of velcro

Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains

The weave of a nylon stocking

The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth

The head of a mosquito

A human head louse clinging to a hair

The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula

Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

Cigarette paper

The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

Mushrooms spores

A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube

A daisy bud

Calcium phosphate crystal

The shell of a foraminiferan

Sorry for the longpost

 

[Beerz]

Wow, those are awesome! 👍

Ant with microchip is just brilliant, and the cauliflower looks like a fractal. Also, the cigarette paper one really blew my mind. What the hell are those crystal-like things on it?

 

[Carlos]

Wow, those are awesome! 👍

Ant with microchip is just brilliant, and the cauliflower looks like a fractal. Also, the cigarette paper one really blew my mind. What the hell are those crystal-like things on it?

No idea, don't have the time to find out, will do later on if nobody else did

Found a creepy one, but still really really cool:

What you are looking at, is a female black bean aphid with babies on board.

 

[Madertus]

The ant with microchip looks like it's 100% photoshopped.

Still, amazing. Awesome post there, Carlos!

 

[Solo]

All of those images are photoshopped to some extent as they are electron microscope (not sure if TEM or SEM) images I think which produce black and white images.

 

[Carlos]

The ant with microchip looks like it's 100% photoshopped.

Still, amazing. Awesome post there, Carlos!

Thanks!

All of those images are photoshopped to some extent as they are electron microscope (not sure if TEM or SEM) images I think which produce black and white images.

Awww really? I thought they were SEM but didn't know the originals were black and white. That kills it But they are PS'ed to their real colors or..?

 

[Solo]

Yeah SEM and TEM produce black and white images. I'd assume they are all done to proper colours, although I'm not sure about the colour of a silicone ROM chip

 

[Carlos]

Not sure either

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...used flourescence technology to highlight different parts of the specimen

5-day old zebrafish head

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[GregTheStig]

Everything is better in New Zealand.

Sunrise over Queenstown, NZ

 

[CodeRedR51]

Thanks for the new desktop.

 

[zedextreme8177]

^ Dat lighting

 

[Beerz]

Dat Photoshop.

 

[Alex.]

Dat Photoshop.

Touche.

 

[Clytius]

 

[Beerz]

They're all huge, so click for a better view:

 

[lbsf1]

This one is kinda different, however to me it is incredibly amazing. Last month I flew home from New York to London heathrow and while across england we flew down the m3 the whole way, I live just off the M3, and thus knew it was just a waiting game until I saw my village, and sure enough about 20mins from landing it drifted bellow, and I took the bellow picture with my house circled in red. To me this is quite amazing to see where you live everyday from above, and out the window of a commercial 747 aswell.

I also saw the Mclaren Factory aswell on the approach, however was told to put my phone away before then.

 

[Slick Rick]

Red circle, amazing.

 

[Beerz]

How go you get out of there? Does it have an on/off switch? Doesn't that attract too much attention to your house?

 

[lbsf1]

How go you get out of there? Does it have an on/off switch? Doesn't that attract too much attention to your house?

Lots of attention yes, however the neighbors can't do anything cause its like a big laser fence.