The amazing and cool photo thread

[Diego440]

Good thing he went into martial arts and not into marathon running, I guess.

 

[exigeracer]

 

[homeforsummer]

Henry Smalls-sensei vs. someone else:

Inspirational martial artist with no legs.

That shouldn't remind me of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it does...

 

[Beerz]

^^ True

 

[Touring Mars]

Some pics of wasps Even looking at these pictures makes me wince, although they are strangely beautiful creatures (even if I am totally scared of them!)

 

[Duke]

Google "cicada killer" or "locust wasp" if you want something to be afraid of...

 

[Omnis]

That shouldn't remind me of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it does...

Never thought of that.

 

[homeforsummer]

I wouldn't worry about those wasps, they look a bit dead Especially the one with the spike through it's head in the second pic.

Great photos though. I subscribed to a photographer on DeviantArt who took photos of insects, until my "watched deviations" was being completely filled by close-ups of ants and dragonflies and the like and it began to get a bit creepy.

But what the hell, here are a couple anyway (the images link to the photographers' home pages):

 

[Glanza-V]

speaking of close ups .. image is really big heres a link, its a spider close up.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Huntsman_spider_with_meal.jpg

 

[Slick Rick]

That just made me pull my feet from underneath the computer desk

 

[PeterJB]

Thank god we don't get Huntsman's in the UK!

Instead we get these!

 

[Glanza-V]

Wolf Spider ?..
the little money spiders are the best, or penny spiders I don't know what yous call them, you know , the tiny tiny ones ?

 

[PeterJB]

Giant House Spider. Or Tegenaria Gigantea if you want to be really posh!

We call them Money Spiders here as well, but half the time I don't notice them cause they're so small!

 

[Glanza-V]

They are great 5 minute pets haha.

 

[homeforsummer]

My house back home (as opposed to at uni) often gets Wolf Spiders crawling around. I read somewhere that they're one of the quickest running spiders yet discovered, which I can vouch for because they're a bugger to try and capture!

How about some wolf spider eyes?

Looks like a mutated muppet or something

Oh, and apologies to any arachnophobes reading this thread...

 

[Bram Turismo]

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[Cap'n Jack]

That just made me pull my feet from underneath the computer desk

Don't go sticking your head under there, like I did earlier this year.

 

[Glanza-V]

What happend ?

 

[homeforsummer]

*Jabba*

That's what it reminded me of! I was also thinking Honey Monster.

 

[Peter]

 

[Cap'n Jack]

What happend ?

Spider bit my face. It was only very small, but it still made half my face numb for a bit.

 

[Jay]

So small you could hardly see it


Lucky it wasn't any bigger.

 

[Diego440]

.... an d this wraps up our spider discussion... moving on

 

[Glanza-V]

Thats hurting my head.

 

[Danny]

Very nicely done. Took me a moment, but he's stood over wet marble, right?

 

[Diego440]

I think it's just wet, eroded brick... or something like that. Can't reallt tell whether it's marble or not.

 

[Peter]

Much too shiny and clean to be brick, definitely marble, it has colours.

 

[Diego440]

as opposed to brick, which is transparent

What's reflecting is water, so the bottom of it could be anything.

 

[MisterWeary]

This is a screenshot from a really funky Interactive Infographic that the New York Times produced. Click on the picture to go the actual site, it's pretty fascinating stuff!

 

[Northstar]

I clicked on the site and learned that 1% of unemployed people are working.

Wouldn't that make them employed?