Christmas and New Year holidays with each day closer. It has long been established everywhere, and Christmas trees hung with festive lights. We offer you a beautiful collection in which you’ll see pictures of Christmas trees from different countries of our great planet.

Very soon the New Year. And all over the world people start decorating the house for the holiday. But the center of festivities, of course is a Christmas tree. Glass balls, tinsel garlands … Beauty!

From 3 to 5 December in Berlin, was a traditional, 20-I of the Convention’s accounts tattooers and amateur tattoos.

Once bungee-jumping or parachuting from a height of six thousand feet were considered the most dangerous. But today this is not much a surprise and, for extreme sports are not standing still.
We represent your attention a list of dozens of hazardous an extreme, the existence of which you may not even suspect.

September 22, after sending a crew of Expedition 23 EVA Col. Douglas H. Wheelock took over command of the International Space Station and crew of Expedition 25. It can be found under the name @ Astro_Wheels on Twitter, where an astronaut puts photos taken from aboard the space station. Offer you the incredible, breathtaking photos of our planet with an unusual point of view of us. Comments provided by Douglas.

Colorful photos from the celebrations of the festival Chhath Puja or Surya, which was held in India last week. During the festival Hindus worship the god of the sun and fasted all day to ensure the welfare of his family and friends. Surya Puja is celebrated twice a year - once in summer (May-July) Chaiti Chhath, and once in October and November - Kartik Chhath, which is celebrated six days after the festival of Deepavali. First day began with a ritual bathing (preferably in the river Ganges), and then the faithful abstain from work at home and fast for four days.

In the first week of November under Atlanta’s Stone Mountain Park Indian Festival is traditionally held, and pow wow - traditional dance competition Indians. Pow-wow is a day for four days of the festival from noon to evening.

In the central Chinese province of Henan, in the town Denfen local Shaolin monastery festival was kung-fu. In recent years, Shaolin monks are often criticized for excessive “care to the masses” of the ancient martial art: the monastery every year receives millions of visitors and sales via the Internet of various things, and monks themselves well to earn visiting the show.

These snapshots are the winners of the 2010 best-landscapes included in the fourth edition of the book-landscapes «Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 4″. The book will be published on October 31.

Dusty-gray asphalt. The same bleached walls of houses. Vaguely dull day in a gray box. But all might not be so! See a selection of images with bright, juicy buildings under sunny skies.