Afghanistan through the eyes of Benjamin Rasmussen
Wakhan Corridor is located in north-eastern Afghanistan, and he is like no other region of this country. People who live here are almost completely isolated from the rest of the world. High in the Pamir Mountains Pamir Kirghiz live, and in the valleys at the foot of the mountains live vahantsy. These people live away from war with the Taliban, Afghanistan is stunning. The Pamir Kirghiz and vahantsy - it’s one of the hardiest people. While in almost complete isolation from the outside world, they could create their own unique culture.
Most journalists, when doing stories about Afghanistan, primarily talk about the civil war, extreme poverty and drug production. Photographer Benjamin Rasmussen has devoted his life to photo essay of Pamir Kirghiz to show that in Afghanistan, whole nations live in harmony with nature.
And break out the storm!
Sean Heavey - not just photos. He photographed exclusively hurricanes, storms andal gales. By profession he is an electrician, but the camera does not leave, and as soon falls in storm - there and then tries to find the angle poeffektnee. Some of his works have even been awarded National Geographic
On the move
Photos by Scott Linstead printed around the world. He specializes in photographing animals in their natural habitat. His photographs regularly publishes a newsletter Hewlett Packard and the Journal of the American Museum of Natural History Natural History Magazine. Scott Linstead also maintains a regular column on the shooting techniques of birds for the Canadian magazine Outdoor Photography Canada.
Photos by Scott Linstead especially expressive, because it is using a special technique, removes the animals in motion.
Fantastically beautiful scenery
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.
Baobab Adansoniya or digitate
Baobab tree is famous for its unusual proportions. This is one of the thickest tree in the world - with an average circumference of the trunk 10.9 meters, height of 18-25 m (in the “Guinness Book of Records” for 1991 describes the baobab tree, which had a 54.5 m in circumference). At the top of the trunk is divided into thick, almost horizontal branches forming a large, up to 38 m in diameter, crown. In the dry season in winter, when the baobab clears leaves, he takes a curious form of the tree roots growing up. Life expectancy of the baobab is controversial - they do not tree rings, which can reliably calculate the age. Performed by the method of radiocarbon analysis (14C) counts showed more than 5500 years for a tree with a diameter of 4,5 m, although more conservative estimates baobabs live “only” 1000 years.
Wonders of nature
Stone Wave (The Wave), USA
The spectacle, which consists of enormous “licked” arrays of red stone on the border between Arizona and Utah. The stone is actually a sand, which is for 190 million years becomes caked and turned into rock-like monolith. This place is not very well known among tourists, because it can get there on foot, must go more than 5 kilometers, and access is strictly regulated so as not to spread through the pebbles.
The most unusual gardens of the world
Garden as work of human hands, can be a real miracle - and here we have in mind not only the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. In our time, the wonderful gardens at least, and maybe even more than they had before. Let’s see what it’s like some of them are created at different times in different countries, different people. Several interesting examples in the sequel.
Zhangjiajie National Park
There is an amazing place in China - Zhangjiajie National Park. It was here that James Cameron drew inspiration for the film “Avatar.” Amazing beauty, see photos.
Hope for Green Gadgets
This article is about the amount of people who think “green” when they purchase new electronics such as receivers and TVs. Do you make “green” purchases? Do you even care about “green” products and how they are less damaging to the environment? See where you stand with the numbers.
What is an Insect?
To abounding of us insects are annihilation but awful crawlies, animal little nasties, and annoying pests. But insects are animals that comedy an important role in our apple and there are actually millions of spieces of insect. They are a subgroup of the accumulation alleged arthropods.