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)
Great story behind a really cool photo.
Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head
In the photo, Mr. Obama looks to be bowing to a sharply dressed 5-year-old black boy, who stands erect beside the Oval Office desk, his arm raised to touch the president’s hair — to see if it feels like his. The image has struck so many White House aides and visitors that, by popular demand, it stays put while others come and go…
“I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.
Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated.
“Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said.
As Jacob patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.
“So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.
“Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said.
(photo by Pete Souza via NYTimes.com)
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)
Mar13
Southern exposure for auroral lights
A picture from the International Space Station, provided Saturday by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, shows southern lights between Antarctica and Australia.
“We can actually fly into the auroras,” space station resident Don Pettit said recently. “It’s like being shrunk down and put inside of a neon sign.”
(photo by ESA/NASA via PhotoBlog)
Mar9
The other image of Mr. Cook hugging Coco was the one that made the rounds, but this was the picture that stuck with me the most from last week’s tornadoes. When a dog looks frightened, things must be pretty scary.
A friend in need
Greg Cook passes his dog Coco to Donnie Watts through a window of his tornado-destroyed home in Limestone County, Ala., on March 2. Cook rushed home after the winds had stopped to find his house and dozens of others destroyed, but his chocolate Labrador survived.
This is totally crazy.
Bug-eyed
This picture of an insect covered in dew moments after a downpour is part of Ondrej Pakan’s series of big-eye views from around the world.
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)
