Big, Big World: 2016

12/24/2016

Christmas Lights & Decorations

Christmas in Medellin (2004)

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Medellin River during Christmas 2004, in Medellin, Colombia.

San Antonio Christmas

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Christmas Lights in Downtown San Antonio. From on top the Riverbend Parking Garage. Torch of Friendship in Center.

White Christmas Tree

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A gathering of Carol Singers in front of the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square, London England.

Reichstagsgebäude mit Weihnachtsbaum bei Nacht, Berlin

The Reichstag Building in Berlin at night with a Christmas tree in front of it. At the left of the Reichstag, the International Trade Centre (Friedrichstrasse) and the television tower (Alexanderplatz) can be seen. Above the TV tower there's the moon. The cupola of the Reichstag building was designed by Norman Foster.

Viborg Christmas Street illumination

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Christmas illumination in Sct. Mathias Gade, Viborg, Denmark. The street lightning is new and based on LEDs. Perspective corrected and cropped using GIMP. The two motion blurred pedestrians are supposed to be motion blurred.

Skeppsbron, Stockholm, Sweden

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Skeppsbron, the old town of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, December 2010.

Schwäbisch Hall in winter

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Schwäbisch Hall (Marktplatz) in winter.Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Christmas Lights in Belfort, 2013

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Christmas Lights in Belfort, a city in northeastern France (HDR). Lumières de Noël, à Belfort (HDR).

Wernigerode Rathaus Weihnachten

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The Town Hall of Wernigerode, Germany with a Christmas tree.

11/21/2016

Landscapes of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, 2016-02-04, DD 31-33 HDR

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Salt flat of Uyuni, Bolivia

Piles of Salt Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest (12 000 km²) and highest (3 700 m) salt flat, ca. 25 times as large as the Bonneville Salt Flats. It's the remnant of a prehistoric lake surrounded by mountains without drainage outlets. Salt is harvested in the traditional method: the salt is scraped into small mounds for water evaporation and easier transportation, dried over fire, and finally enriched with iodine.

Monumento al Dakar, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Monument to Dakar, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Isla del Pescado, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Isla Incahuasi, Salt flat of Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Uyuni salt flat, Bolivia

Watching Sunset Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Watching Sunset, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. When is covered with water the Salar de Uyuni reflects sun light. Here as it looks like at sunset.

Reflection on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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During the winter, the Salar de Uyuni is mostly dry but a small patch close to the city of Uyuni remains covered with water. This photo was taken at sunrise time.

Taiwanese Monk at the Salar of Uyuni, Bolivia

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A Taiwanese Monk at the Salar of Uyuni during winter. Photo taken at sunset time. He was travelling for a few weeks in order to see some nice places and to meet some of his fellows scattered in Latin America. He was given a tablet computer to document his travels, which he seemed to have done pretty well.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Mountains and reflections surrounding the Uyuni salt flat during sunrise, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, southwesten Bolivia, not far from the crest of the Andes. This salt flat is, with a surface of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi), the world's largest, and during the rain saison (December-February) offers spectacular reflexions.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

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Salt flat of Uyuni, Bolivia

9/10/2016

In Abundance

Photographs of repetitive patterns or multiple objects together have some vague aesthetic appeal.

Rose Petals Macro Photography

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Rose Petals

Pottery in a pottery shop in Morocco

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Tajines in a pottery shop in Morocco

Colorful fruit stand

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Fruit stand near Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico - Puesto de frutas cerca de Tepic, Nayarit, México. Levels adjusted in photoshop, middle level adjusted for more saturation, sharpnened and contrast added.

Phalaenopsis HD photo

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Phalaenopsis amabilis

Air Show Airplane HD Photo

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The Red Arrows at the 2011 Royal International Air Tattoo.

Plastic Utensils HD Photo

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Knives, forks, and spoons made from a biodegradable starch-polyester material. The photo has been realized using the photoelasticity method, an experimental method which gets a fairly accurate picture of stress distribution even around abrupt discontinuities in a material. When a ray of plane polarised light is passed through a photoelastic material, it gets resolved along the two principal stress directions and each of these components experiences different refractive indices. The difference in the refractive indices leads to a relative phase retardation between the two component waves. The setup used to photograph this photo was probably composed of: A regular light source, with a quarter-wave plate installed to polarize the emerging light A regular photo camera, with a quarter-wave plate installed in front of the lens Light and camera being installed and oriented in the same direction, the two quarter-wave plates were turned with the polarizing axis in the same direction.

Traditional Moroccan Colorful Shoes HD Photo

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Picture taken in a market of Fès.

Oranges HD Photo

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Ambersweet oranges, a new cold-resistant orange variety.

Colorful Flower Plantation HD Photo

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Zinnia elegans, plantation, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Sting Fish HD Photo

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Fish for sale at Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo

Photographer

Pierrot -- Deburau -- photographer

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Female photographer in Taiwan

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Female photographer in Taiwan

Hossein Rajabian Filmmaker & Photographer

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Hossein Rajabian Filmmaker & Photographer

Photographer Shadow

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Indoor shadow of self captured in the night in black and white mode with the help of a torch light and Nikon Coolpix L26

Scott Schuman

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Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist, in action outside the Bryant Park tents during Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week, September 9, 2007.

USAF photographer

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jonathan Snyder, of 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs, captures photographs of flight line operations on Ali Air Base, Iraq, Oct. 3, 2007.

Photographers

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epSos.de and it can be used for free, if you link epSos.de as the original author of the image.

Combat photographers

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Asha McMakin, a combat photographer, and Staff Sgt. Jason Bailey, a combat videographer, both with 1st Combat Camera Squadron, document a formation of C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., as they fly over a drop zone at North Auxiliary Airfield near North, S.C., Dec. 16, 2009. U.S. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., and cargo pallets will be airdropped during the exercise to simulate the seizure of a remote airfield.

Photographer

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The photographer, part of "Photo Session" by J. Steward Johnson Jr.

The Photographer

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Old black and white photo of a man walking in a tunnel with a camera. Taken at São Martinho do Porto, West coast of Portugal. It is uncertain whether the man is approaching the camera or walking away from it.