A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 35

On May 25 2011 15:16 Bloodash wrote:


looks like a desert where the sun is rising, background has sun, foreground doesn't, amazing image

The little red dot at the center is a gamma ray burst, estimated by the researchers to be more than 13 billion light years away.

On May 27 2011 11:23 USApwn wrote:


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110525.html

On May 18 2011 08:51 staxringold wrote:



Someone I know had a friend who took this photo of Endeavor taking off for it's final mission.

http://www.space.com/11689-shuttle-launch-photos-airplane-window.html

On May 25 2011 11:26 BlackJack wrote:


real photograph

On May 25 2011 15:23 Kogu wrote:


maybe it's when it snowed in Africa like 2-3 years ago.

This stunning photo of camel thorn trees was made during the Namibian dawn when the warm light of the morning sun was illuminating a huge red sand dune dotted with white grasses while the white floor of the clay pan was still in shade. The foregroud looks blue because the white clay reflected the color of the sky above.

Because of the extreme contrast between the shady foreground and the sunlit background Frans used a two-stop graduated filter to reduce the contrast. The perfect moment came just as the sun reached the bottom of the sand dune and before it washed the desert floor.

Frans chose a long telephoto lens and stopped it all the way down to compress the perspective. The image was captured using a Nikon D3X camera mounted to a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 lens exposing ISO 100 for 1/10 of a second at 200mm f/22.

On February 13 2011 07:14 buickskylark wrote:


This picture should always come with some explanation as people who don't follow history probably have no idea the minutes that happened after this picture was taken. Everytime I see this picture I always wonder if the tanks rode over the man or they stopped. You simply can't tell from looking at that picture alone.