May23
Tall ships sail up Hudson River for Fleet Week
Sailors aboard the tall ship from Indonesia “Dewaruci” sail past the Statue of Liberty May 23, in New York. The tall ship is participating in Fleet Week events in New York.
(photo by Don Emmert / AFP - Getty Images via PhotoBlog)
May22
Bike! Skatepark! Physics!
(photo by Eric Gay / AP via PhotoBlog)
Mar26
Timing.
Nature’s Best Photography: Vine Snake in Choco, Colombia
Photographer’s comments: “I was scrambling through bushes, wading up streams, and looking for anything scaly or slimy in one of the most bio-diverse forests in the world when we came across this vine snake. I was lying on my stomach to frame the shot when, as if on cue, a fly buzzed down and used the snake’s head as a landing pad. As soon as I clicked the shutter, the fly departed. Some photographs come about through careful and diligent planning, but this one was about being in the right place at the right time.”
(photo by Robin Moore / Nature’s Best Photography via PhotoBlog)
Mar14
This is a picture of the sun.
Thrill to a sunspot’s parting shot
A particularly angry region of the sun has been throwing some strong solar storms toward us over the past week, but there’s just one more blast to weather. This picture, from astrophotographer Alan Friedman, shows active region 1429 as it rolls toward the edge of the sun’s disk.throwing
The sunspot region known as AR1429 seethes in a picture of the sun, captured on March 11 in hydrogen-alpha light by photographer Alan Friedman.
(photo by Alan Friedman / Averted Imagination via PhotoBlog)
Mar5
Then and now: The 2011 Japan tsunami
Last year’s tsunami in Japan caused what is estimated to have been the most expensive natural disaster ever, with more than 15,000 lives lost. See before-and-after photos.
Battered bridge: This combination (above) of pictures shows residents of Ishinomaki crossing a bridge covered with tsunami debris four days after the disaster. The second picture shows the same scene on Jan. 13, 2012.
(photos by Kim Jae-hwan / AFP - Getty Images via msnbc.com)
Feb14
These photos are great fun.
B-E-L-L-Y-F-L-O-P! Amazing photos of underwater dogs
Photographer Seth Casteel has definitely taken animal photography to new heights – or depths – with his hilarious photos of dogs chasing balls underwater.
(photo by Sam Casteel/Tandemstock.com via Animal Tracks)
Jan27
“South Philly (Mattress Flip Front),” 2001
(image © Zoe Strauss/Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art via PDN Photo of the Day)
Dec21
2 women share 1st kiss at US Navy ship’s return
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 22. It’s a tradition at Navy homecomings that one sailor is chosen by raffle to be first off the ship to kiss a loved one. Wednesday, for the first time, the reunited couple was same-sex.
(photo by Brian Clark / Courtesy of The Virginian-Pilot via msnbc.com)
Sep23
Awesome moment between a mom and her daughter. I love this picture.
Fond farewell
Amber Simpkins and her daughter Elezia Simpkins rub noses during a farewell ceremony in Gulfport, Miss., on Sept. 18. Approximately 140 Mississippi Army National Guard soldiers are mobilizing for one year to Kuwait to support the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. Detachments of the 1108th will serve in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Horn of Africa.
(photo by Tim Isbell / The Sun Herald / AP via The Week in Pictures - msnbc.com)
