The amazing and cool photo thread

[Danoff]

Super cool. Unfortunately this is the amazing and cool photo thread. Often there are things in here that we all think might just be CG but are that much more amazing because we know that what we see in this thread is real.

 

[Madertus]

Interlaken:

The most awesome technique of pic shooting 👍

 

[Beerz]

^^ Except that (as 99% of similar images you'll ever see) was made in post-production.


Found this one cool and scary:

 

[GregTheStig]

^I've never surfed in my life but I can almost feel the impending pain from here...


If you've been on reddit today you've already seen this, but I really don't care because this is awesome.

 

[Patrick]

It flew right over my house!


Pic from one of the escort jets.

 

[RocZX]

Individual images taken of Venus in one year to create a full curve. The summer solstice being at the top, winter solstice at the bottom, and equinox where they lines cross.

 

[locoman88]

Thought these were awesome.

 

[Beerz]

World's deepest cave:

Krubera Cave
Depth: 2,191mts (7,188 ft)
Length: 13.432kms (8.346miles)

 

[Wiegert]

A geyser on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus sprays water vapor into space:

New York City in autumn:

 

[ND4SPD]

A girl on a bike..... Technically, it's nothing special but I'll just leave it here.....

 

[Neal]

eXtreme Deep Field photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field

 

[daan]

It flew right over my house!


Pic from one of the escort jets.

Your grass must take a lot of mowing!

 

[Bopop4]

A girl dummy on a bike..... Technically, it's nothing special but I'll just leave it here.....
*girl on bike*

Won't look much like a girl when her whole body needs a skin graft.

Drift? Check
Knee slide? Check.
One handed? Check.

: D


And obligatory military wallpapers.

B-17 Assembly line.

 

[GregTheStig]

And obligatory military wallpapers.

Nice!... and did someone say military?

This photo is really only amazing when you consider that each of the sixteen B-17s in this photo were all built in the same 24 hour period from this one factory on 30 April 1944...

 

[Madertus]

Drift? Check
Knee slide? Check.
One handed? Check.

Awesome? Check.

👍

 

[Beerz]

"I can see my house from heeeeeee....."

 

[GregTheStig]

Stockholm, Sweden - 1945


Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden by Swedish National Heritage Board, on Flickr


And a pilot from the 82nd Fighter Group doing a super low flyby in a P-38 Lightning - Italy, 1945

Negative, Ghost Rider, pattern is full.

 

[BJBEOSmitty]

 

[Peterram430]

 

[GregTheStig]

Talk about devotion to getting the shot...

Story here. For the lazy this was for a no littering campaign in Texas.
http://euclidsbridge.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/b17-super-low-flyby-dont-mess-with-texas/

 

[Carlos]

^Nice!

WINNIPEG — A situation that officials described as volatile and dangerous began to ease late Monday as fire crews started to knock back a massive blaze at a Winnipeg warehouse holding highly explosive fuel used for car racing.

No one was hurt when fire and explosions rocked Speedway International, a company that boasts on its website it is “North America’s No. 1 source for 99.99% racing methanol.”

 

[Beerz]

Real Yoda:

click for awesomeness​

 

[Wiegert]

That's actually quite creepy, yet cool.



Moon/USA size comparison:

 

[GregTheStig]

^That's pretty neat! Puts things into perspective nicely.

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Here's how to make "The Bean" in Chicago look about 50 times cooler.

The artists have a bunch more on their Flickr. Linky.

 

[Ibonibo]

^Nice

Who knew sand could look so damn colourful and interesting? Gary Greenberg, that’s who, whose incredible microphotography reveals each grain of sand to be a kaleidoscope of colour and texture that defies its rather bland reputation

 

[Minty]

Source

Took this on my phone on the way back into the creek while on the CGC Wire.

Figured it was worth sharing.

 

[Slick Rick]

Looks like the setting for a horror movie. Nice pic 👍

 

[DG_Silva]

Where is it?

 

[Sprite]

For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter. See more of Aiba’s work here. (via design you trust)

 

[CodeRedR51]

Holy crap.

Link?