The amazing and cool photo thread

[homeforsummer]

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

I'm surprised they didn't paint him holding the telescope the wrong way round...

 

[fafat]

Have a look at those pics ! 1.47 gigapixels, zoom to see all the details...

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
or
http://gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?sort=popular&window_height=867&window_width=1663

 

[Mark T]

Have a look at those pics ! 1.47 gigapixels, zoom to see all the details...

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
or
http://gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?sort=popular&window_height=867&window_width=1663

Just behind Obama there is a black guy with gray hair who looks like he has fallen asleep.

 

[Touring Mars]

And to the right, there appears to be a man with two faces... (and no, I don't mean Bill Clinton)

 

[Nicksfix]

So much can be said about this picture.
Where to start .................... ?

 

[Slick Rick]

Ill start.
OMG Obi Wan!!!

 

[Beerz]

Damn, you're right!

Just look at this:

 

[exigeracer]

Finally found someone who syndicated some proper-sized photos. Damn AP...

 

[Bram Turismo]

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.

Glad to hear you're OK. It must've been scary and frightning, and that tornado caused a serious amount of damage. I can't deny the fact that I would an adrenaline rush though if I'd chase one. They are deadly, yes, but that's what storm chasers are for, to find out more about them.

I've seen the Moore tornado a bunch of times, it's huge indeed, but it's far more enjoyable to see such a beautiful, yet devastating thing on plains without any structures or people/animals. Hell, who'd consider the Oklahoma tornado to be an awesome tornado?

I'm a Reed Timmer fanboy though, you've got to respect the guy for coming so close to tornado's with only a driver, a "hail-man " and his laptop and a camera. Just finished watching Storm Chasers: Season 2, and he saw about 3 times the amount of tornado's the other two teams did...

 

[Touring Mars]

Got to say, I watched a video of that volcano this morning and my first thought was not "Wow, that's amazing!" but "Wow, I wouldn't like to be in the same boat as the person taking the pictures"... presumably, being an undersea volcano and all, there was no real way of knowing where another plume might come up, and they were mighty close the ones that were already there...

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

Finally found someone who syndicated some proper-sized photos. Damn AP...

They, Tonga, just experienced a 7.9 earthquake as well... let's pray we don't see a repeat of the same devastation and loss off life from another tsunami as we did in 2004.

 

[Touring Mars]

Tsunami warnings have been issued, although the 2004 Indian Ocean quake was well over 100 times as powerful

 

[Brett]

Glad to hear you're OK. It must've been scary and frightning, and that tornado caused a serious amount of damage.

Completely fine, it never came within more than about two miles of where I live. Honestly, I do not find tornadoes to be that scary. They occur enough to be commonplace that safety precautions become almost second nature. It also helps that the National Weather Service/weather forecasters do(es) an excellent job of warning people far in advance that tornadoes are coming.

I've seen the Moore tornado a bunch of times, it's huge indeed, but it's far more enjoyable to see such a beautiful, yet devastating thing on plains without any structures or people/animals. Hell, who'd consider the Oklahoma tornado to be an awesome tornado?

The Moore tornado is awesome in how fast the winds were blowing and how much power was generated by the storm. But that is the only awesome aspect. The death and carnage it caused is absolutely terrible and it is very fortunate that more lives were not ended.

I'm a Reed Timmer fanboy though, you've got to respect the guy for coming so close to tornado's with only a driver, a "hail-man " and his laptop and a camera. Just finished watching Storm Chasers: Season 2, and he saw about 3 times the amount of tornado's the other two teams did...

I honestly could not tell you who that is because I do not know any of the storm chasers. I could only tell you the name of one of the local stations' helicopter pilots and that is Val Caster. He is part of the News 9 team, along with Gary England. Speaking of Gary England, someone came up with a drinking game involving his newscasts during storms. Gary England Drinking Game

 

[MisterWeary]

Thought this was a neat pic:

 

[Prosthetic]

It really shows how little we have been around 👍

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

While searching for high resolution images of the latest Tonga eruption, I came across these photos.. and yes, those are homes about to be annihilated by the pyroclastic clouds:







And here is an amazing and rare example of a Plinian eruption made famous by the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius:

 

[Prosthetic]

The first 2 pics almost look like underwater pictures of coral!

 

[Beerz]

Those are great, especially the 1st one. Scary stuff.


And now for something really creepy (gives me goosebumps):

1920px versions of these 2 pics available if anyone's interested.

On to something less creepy...

 

[boiltheocean]

I never ever thought I'd see a lion in a sidecar.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

The snake is sweet. Care to post those bigger versions?

 

[MisterWeary]

Some ripper pics Beerz 👍

 

[Nicksfix]

I got to try this !!!!

Thanks Beerz 👍

 

[Beerz]

Thanks, guys.

Here's the bigger versions, and a few more of this particular snake, I just love it.
It creeps me out, but attracts me at the same time.

And a few other pics:

Don't remember if this one has already been posted or not.

 

[boiltheocean]

I love the third pic. Lighting and texture is just awesome. Snakes really are amazing animals.

 

[Rue]

 

[exigeracer]

The photography of Clark Little.

 

[UnoMOTO]

those are sick!

 

[Beerz]

Pretty damn amazing photos! 👍

But how the heck does he get the 2nd and last ones? They're making me cringe...

 

[Danny]

Camera that can take hundreds of pics a second?

 

[Solid Lifters]

Reminds me so much of my surfing days. 👍