The amazing and cool photo thread

[ProjectWHaT]

The best National Geographic readers' photos of 2014
(Link includes captions and runner ups for all pictures and categories)

Places category:

Nature category:

People category:

Traveler category:

 

[TB]

Places category:

If that's what won, I'd hate to see the ones that didn't.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

If that's what won, I'd hate to see the ones that didn't.

lol yeah. I prefer the runner ups for that category.

 

[Peasantslayer]

Chinese soldiers enduring temperatures of about -30C.

 

[R5]

Chinese soldiers enduring temperatures of about -30C.

they look like they're sneezing and I can't stop laughing!

 

[Liquid]

 

[GregTheStig]

SS America wreck on the Canary Islands

Fireball over Banff Rundle Mountain

Busan, South Korea

 

[GregTheStig]

Holy crap.

This is the first image of the sun from NASA's NuSTAR telescope.

 

[Ken]

Holy crap.

This is the first image of the sun from NASA's NuSTAR telescope.

That is jaw dropping.

 

[Liquid]

Venezuela

 

[ScottPuss20]

Chinese soldiers enduring temperatures of about -30C.

Poor fellas

 

[Beerz]

Poor fellas

I wouldn't worry that much. The temperature was most likely measured by a Chinese thermometer, which means the actual temperature was closer to -2C.

 

[Rage Racer]

Leaning apartment house of Pisa.
Sevastopol, Crimea.

Poor fellas

Ha, "poor"... My friend from Yakutia wouldn't be surprised.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

EESH! Why don't they take the poor building out of its misery before it crushes a BUNCH of people?

I can understand no money after a war, but that's just sad.......

 

[TB]

EESH! Why don't they take the poor building out of its misery before it crushes a BUNCH of people?

I can understand no money after a war, but that's just sad.......

They were trying to demolish it and failed, hence why it's still half up. Rest assured that it is now leveled.

 

[Beerz]

They were trying to demolish it and failed

That's the worst kind of fail.

 

[Liquid]

Certainly not TFPT.

Video on Facebook

 

[Rage Racer]

I can understand no money after a war, but that's just sad.......

There was no war in Crimea for the last 70 years.

P.S. The building was demolished after the third attempt only.

 

[R5]

There was no war in Crimea for the last 70 years.

P.S. The building was demolished after the third attempt only.

Think he means the battle with Russian supporters in the country

 

[Rage Racer]

in the country

It's the different country.

 

[R5]

It's the different country.

I am an idiot so ignore me

Like... seriously... how did I mix them up. .?

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Yeah, I went and looked it up after I posted that and just face-palmed myself. I'd delete it if it hadn't already been painfully corrected....

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Everything here:
Fantastic landscape photography makes Earth look like a magic dimension

 

[kikie]

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I just posted this here. Scroll up a bit.

 

[Ken]

 

[kikie]

Draining sink

 

[Lizard]

Wow never knew it was that big.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Wow never knew it was that big.

And I never realised I could get there on the M1!

 

[Lizard]

And I never realised I could get there on the M1!

I know.


I find it amazing though how one city and it's suburbs can be bigger than Wales.