The Amazing Pictures Thread

[danny275]

WTF is that

WTF is what?

[pes4life]

Fallen rockets, Altai, Russia




Higher quality: http://madebyhk.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... IKSEN.jpeg

[ShadyKnight]

Would you say this is "amazing"? Its certainly very cool. A pumpkin carved Limbo-style.

[danny275]

Would you say this is "amazing"? Its certainly very cool. A pumpkin carved Limbo-style.

No...














.i'd say it's pretty awesome

Reminded my of James and The Giant Peach....and yes, i'm aware of it being a pumpkin

[G7SEV]

A group of amateur cave explorers discovered a river in Mexico with banks, trees and leaves just like an ordinary river, but with an additional metric shit ton of "WTF," because they were hovering 25 feet over it in scuba gear when they discovered it.

While underwater water doesn't seem possible, the "river" is actually a briny mix of salt water and hydrogen sulfide. It's much more dense than regular salt water, so it sinks to the bottom and forms a distinct separation that acts and flows like a river.

In addition to giving scuba divers the distinct feeling that they're flying through a landscape painting, the underwater river allows them to snap mind-blowing pictures like the series you're looking at taken by Anatoly Beloshchin.

[ShadyKnight]

Not sure whether these pictures can be filed under "amazing" (its certainly striking and quite chilling when you realise what's going on),

The Stages of Schizophrenia
A 20th-century artist, Louis Wain, who was fascinated by cats, painted these pictures over a period of time in which he developed schizophrenia. The pictures mark progressive stages in the illness and exemplify what it does to the victim’s perception.

[Arsenalisti]

A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July this year.
Click

[danny275]

Scale of the universe. Awesome

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_ ... verse_2012

[Arsenalisti]

Scale of the universe. Awesome

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_ ... verse_2012

That's too much for my imagination.

[danny275]

Mount Roraima





Montana Fire

The image was captured in the late afternoon of Sunday, August 6, from a bridge over the East Fork of the Bitterroot River just north of Sula, Montana. The elk sought refuge in the river bottom during what may have been the most extreme day of fire behavior on the Bitterroot in more than 70 years. "I do shoot some photography, but certainly that was a once in a lifetime, stunning opportunity."

Long Exposure of an Airport


Time Lapse View From Space

[Arsenalisti]

That second Mount Roraima picture, the one completely surrounded by clouds looks mind blowing. Imagine you are standing on top of it and looking down the edge on the clouds.
Good find.

[nobleknight91]

stunning pics danny

[Arsenalisti]

http://www.orschlurch.net/wp-content/gallery/pixxdump-174/005.jpg
http://www.orschlurch.net/wp-content/gallery/pixxdump-174/008.jpg

[DA77EN]

WTF is that

WTF is what?

Sorry dan for a year later reply

Didn't mean it in a bad way at all, that rocket pic you posted was amazing, what I meant was WTF

[danny275]

WTF is that

WTF is what?

Sorry dan for a year later reply

Didn't mean it in a bad way at all, that rocket pic you posted was amazing, what I meant was WTF

Righteo

http://www.orschlurch.net/wp-content/gallery/pixxdump-174/005.jpg
http://www.orschlurch.net/wp-content/gallery/pixxdump-174/008.jpg

Awesome pics. Especially the first one

[Arsenalisti]

Namba Parks, Osaka.
All of what you're seeing is on a roof.

[danny275]

Looks like this 100-million-year old spider didn’t get to enjoy its final meal.

Trapped in a piece of amber, the juvenile spider appears to be on the cusp of devouring a male wasp that was caught in its web. Such a grisly scene between spider and prey has never before been found in the fossil record.

The amazing snapshot shows an event that occurred in the Early Cretaceous period, about 97 to 110 million years ago, in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar, “almost certainly with dinosaurs wandering nearby,” as the press release about this discovery reports. The spider is a social orb-weaver spider, formally known as Geratonephila burmanica, and its victim is a wasp of the species Cascoscelio incassus. Both species are extinct today but the fossil suggests that insect behavior from the past is not too different from the present.

Related wasp species are known to parasitize spider eggs, so there is some poetic justice in the spider’s attack. “This was the wasp’s worst nightmare, and it never ended. The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be attacked, when tree resin flowed over and captured both of them,” said entomologist George Poinar Jr. of Oregon State University in the release.

This latest fossil doesn’t just capture the dramatic spider attack but also evidence of spider social life in the Early Cretaceous. Another spider, an adult male, is captured some distance away in the amber, co-habiting on the same web as the juvenile. Males of modern-day social orb-weavers are typically found living on female-constructed webs, where they assist in capturing insects and maintaining the web.

[Arsenalisti]

You'd think that amber is very slow on it's way down the tree but it looks like the two have been surprised by it. Timeless.

[danny275]

Not sure if I've posted this, don't think i have but

http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/

Yes, it's old but it's still amazing dammit

[Arsenalisti]

Don't get it wrong it is not amazing what happend over in the us, it's just interesting to see the skyline of Manhatten with so few lights on. It looks like New York is sleeping.