The amazing and cool photo thread

[Madertus]

^The fact itself is bloody awesome.

But this whole AC thingie is in my opinion overrated.

 

[Jedi2016]

I don't know how 'cool' this really is but those arrows were put up there by real archers hired by Ubisoft for that bill board poster. I think it's pretty cool.

Fired from where? I call shenanigans. They're too perfectly positioned, all sticking out at the exact same angle, all spaced exact distances apart.. even Olympic archers can't do that.

 

[Wiegert]

Were they fired at the sign when it was already erected? Or did they just shoot the arrows in when it was on the ground from a few feet away?

If it's the former, then I call Legolas.




"Syria's homemade tank"

 

[Antonisbob]

Haha man that's awesome. Video game controller for the gun. xD

 

[G.T.Ace]

The displays were probably more expensive than the rest combined.

 

[terminator363]

That's impressive, though they should upgrade to DS3s.

 

[axletramp]

'Frost Flowers' on the Artic Ocean caused by moist air freezing above the water:

 

[dudeondacouch]

Awesome indeed.

 

[Danny]

 

[GregTheStig]

C-130 tries to find a suitable place to take off in Antarctica and uncovers a pit of NOPE.

 

[Michael88]

I thought this photo I made was worth sharing, its the highest altitude road in my little country, 8435ft or ~ 2570m above sea level, the Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse. (Road visible in the lower left corner on the pic) The mountain itself is ~12500ft or 3798m high

 

[Michael88]

And a two funny ones, first I thought ''man that is one ugly butterfly''....

....then -like he read my thoughts- he spread his wings and oohhh...

And then he took off.

 

[MatskiMonk]

C-130 tries to find a suitable place to take off in Antarctica and uncovers a pit of NOPE.

Why is there a dude dangling on the end of a rope from the left undercarriage bogey?...

 

[axletramp]

He dropped his wallet?

 

[djinline]

He dropped his wallet?

 

[Liquid]

Neutrality Arch

Asgabat, Turkmenistan

A ludicrous monument in the Turkmen capital, on top of which stood a 36ft/12m solid gold rotating statue of Saparmurat Nijazov, the former dictator of Turkmenistan who, amongst other things, renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and his family. He was one of the oddest world leaders in living memory.

Dismantled after his death in 2006.

 

[GregTheStig]

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A ludicrous monument in the Turkmen capital, on top of which stood a 36ft/12m solid gold rotating statue of Saparmurat Nijazov, the former dictator of Turkmenistan who, amongst other things, renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and his family. He was one of the oddest world leaders in living memory.

Resemblance is uncanny

 

[TB]

Benkingsleyday always seems to suck.

 

[RocZX]

The End of The World - Selfoss, Iceland by oilfighter, on Flickr



Double Rainbow at Skógafoss Iceland by oilfighter, on Flickr


After The Storm by oilfighter, on Flickr


Mount Rainier and a log by oilfighter, on Flickr

 

[Encyclopedia]

 

[Beerz]

^^ Wow, stunning photo. 👍

 

[CodeRedR51]

This photograph series by Thierry Cohen shows what our cities would look like at night if they had no lights at all.

To create the images he travelled to regions far away from all artificial light, but on the same latitude as major cities. He photographed the skies, and then combined those images with photographs of the cities in question, altered to remove all lighting.

More here: CLICK

 

[GregTheStig]

Thierry Cohen

Came here to post that myself Those are some of the coolest photos I've ever seen, but I wish they were in a higher resolution.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Same. And I had to rummage through the page source info to get the image url's.

 

[TB]

1050x700

 

[Brett]

Every time I see pictures from places with little to no artificial light, it makes me want to make a trip to somewhere like that so I can experience it for myself.

 

[hellnback]

Lake Tekapo in New Zealand is now becoming a serious 'Night Sky' tourism location. It recently has got World Heritage accreditation & International Dark Sky Reserve gold standard, and there are tours to the local mountain top observatory. Luckily for quite some time the local council has had regulations on street/domestic lighting to 'protect' it.

http://earthandskynz.com/earthandsky/

 

[terminator363]

1050x700

I would kill to have those in 1920X1080. What a wallpaper that would be!

 

[CodeRedR51]

You know looking at those photos now, there's something really eerie about them. Big cities with no lights on. No cars on the streets. It's like the human race just vanished.

 

[niky]

I've always had that secret, morbid fantasy of being the last man on Earth. I mean... who hasn't?