The amazing and cool photo thread

[homeforsummer]

I'll try and get some good ground level pictures of that area to share when I go out to Dubai next month, so you can see what it looks like 👍

 

[MisterWeary]

 

[Beerz]

^^ That's a cool one.

 

[Alex.]

As are all of those, great pics 👍

 

[UnoMOTO]

Wow...very cool!

 

[exigeracer]

Light painting has been around for a while, and has recently gained exposure in the mainstream. This guy (Kaalam) makes the rest of the photos shown in this thread and elsewhere look like downright kindergarten chicken scrawl. Bask:

 

[land sea air]

 

[Touring Mars]

279-foot high statue commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad..

 

[Mark T]

I don't know how it could have been there for so long yet I've never seen it. The size is incredible.

 

[livemusic]

Nipples.

Really cool statue! 👍

 

[Alex.]

Is there a bird sitting on the top of the sword?

Where is that, by the way?

 

[TheCracker]

Where is that, by the way?

.....Stalingrad (now known as Volgograd)

 

[Beerz]

Wow, those light painting shots are truly amazing, they look unbelievably 3D. 👍

And is that statue for real? sure that's not a ps?
I'm just questioning it because surely something that INSANELY HUGE would've come up to one's knowledge through the news, internet, papers, whatever. Even just a single pic.
Or was it a secret until now?
Anyway, it's jaw-dropping.

 

[TheCracker]

Some other pix of it.

 

[Touring Mars]

And is that statue for real? sure that's not a ps?
I'm just questioning it because surely something that INSANELY HUGE would've come up to one's knowledge through the news, internet, papers, whatever. Even just a single pic.
Or was it a secret until now?
Anyway, it's jaw-dropping.

Yep, it's real... I didn't know about it either, hence why I posted it up

I was looking for a picture to reply to TheCracker's post in The Picture Battle thread, when I came across a photo of Stalingrad in WW2, which led me to this page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls 👍

👍 Awesome...

Unbelievable/disgusting that the Bamiyan Buddha(s) were destroyed recently by the Taliban...

 

[TB]

And a Google Maps view.

 

[TheCracker]

Unbelievable/disgusting that the Bamiyan Buddha(s) were destroyed recently by the Taliban...

I've taken the 'scale' image down. After looking into it, it's all wrong. The Bamiyan Buddha was only 180 feet high compared to 'The Motherland Calls' which is 280 feet tall and the Statue of Liberty is only 150 feet tall.

 

[Bram Turismo]

I've always been obsessed with tornados since I was a child, but lately the fanboy-ism has returned. I haven't done anything else than watching Storm Chasers Season 2 that appeared on Discovery Channel and Reed Timmer's tornado chases over YouTube. Here are some beautiful shots of mesocyclones (rotating storms out of which a tornado forms)

Have always wanted to see a tornado storm in real life, and I'd give a lot to travel to America and join a team for a week, but I guess this an unrealistic child's dream that'll only stay a child's dream
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[ASH32]

Is there a bird sitting on the top of the sword?

Where is that, by the way?

Judging by the second picture it's a light, so there really was something there. Awesome statue isn't it, can't believe I didn't know about it until now.

 

[Jay]

I knew about it for many years now but always wondered why it is never talked about, you hear about the Statue of liberty often but this is much bigger.

 

[ASH32]

I knew about it for many years now but always wondered why it is never talked about, you hear about the Statue of liberty often but this is much bigger.

Yeah that's exactly why I never knew about it and like you said, the Statue of Liberty is mentioned loads.

 

[Touring Mars]

Discussing The Divine Comedy With Dante.... (pic with names/Wiki links included)

 

[Studentdriver]

I think the reason we don't hear much about the statue is because it was first built behind the Iron Curtain, and by the time the Soviet Union had collapsed, it was already decades old.

 

[Omnis]

That picture is so messed up, TM. So many completely opposite people chatting away with each other.

Mega lols for the artist painting GW Bush scoping out Saddam Hussein though.

 

[Danoff]

That picture is so messed up, TM. So many completely opposite people chatting away with each other.

Not to mention the seemingly haphazard standard by which the people were chosen to be included.

 

[Touring Mars]

It's pretty random, to say the least... although I do like the way that Noah looks awfully like Charles Darwin...

Mega lols for the artist painting GW Bush scoping out Saddam Hussein though.

Didn't notice that myself...

 

[Brett]

I've always been obsessed with tornados since I was a child, but lately the fanboy-ism has returned. I haven't done anything else than watching Storm Chasers Season 2 that appeared on Discovery Channel and Reed Timmer's tornado chases over YouTube. Here are some beautiful shots of mesocyclones (rotating storms out of which a tornado forms)

Have always wanted to see a tornado storm in real life, and I'd give a lot to travel to America and join a team for a week, but I guess this an unrealistic child's dream that'll only stay a child's dream

Tornado season should be coming here pretty soon where I live and with that said: 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak

Check out the part with the subject "The Moore F5". That tornado caused weather forecasters to rethink the scale in which tornadoes are classified and came within a couple miles of where I live.

 

[Omnis]

Well I think it's pretty obvious that it's a Chinese painter. Just look at Emporer Tojo and all the Communists. Not one proto-Austrian (no Turgot... not even Aristotle!) in that picture.

A few questions come up: Why is Mother Teresa a zombie? Why is Osama Bin Laden flirting with what looks to be the virgin Mary? Why is there not a pedobear behind Lewis Carroll? Why is Il Duce sniffing Hitler's farts?

 

[Solid Lifters]

Is that Richie Valens with the electric guitar? Richie Valens???

Neat and lame at the same time; interesting.

 

[Philly]

During this time of the year, the sun rises right behind Mount Rainier. If it's not raining or foggy, the sky and clouds put on an amazing show as the sun rises. It's a photographer's dream: nature does all the work; you just have to sit there and click the shutter button.

I absolutely love Mount Rainier. When I was headed back to Michigan after Christmas I was treated to an amazing view of the mountain at sunrise with the rest of the cascades just peeping above the clouds and then another cloud cover above the mountain. Stunning view.