Blooming of the Tisza
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
Every year from late spring to early summer, an incredible natural spectacle transforms Hungary's Tisza River. Millions of long-tailed m...
Showing posts from September, 2013
9,000 Soldiers Stenciled On Normandy Beach To Commemorate D-Day Landings
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by hundreds of volunteers, on September 21, 2013, travelled to the beaches of Norman...
The Hair Raising Train Ride Over Goteik Viaduct
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
The Goteik viaduct, located in Nawnghkio, is one of Burma’s most stunning engineering marvel. Built by the colonial British in the beginning...
The Painted Ladies of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2013
The famous Painted Ladies of San Francisco are a row of colorful Victorian houses located at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Squar...
The Cursed Island of Gaiola
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2013
Gaiola Island ( Isola della Gaiola in Italian) is one of the minor islands of Naples, Italy, located in the Gulf of Naples in the heart of ...
The Flaming Rocks of Chimaera, Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2013
About 80 km southwest of Antalya, near the town of Çıralı in southwestern Turkey, lies a rocky mountain that’s been literally on fire for th...
The Maasai Cricket Warriors
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2013
Dressed in flowing red skirts and draped in colorful bead necklaces but otherwise bare bodied, the warriors from the legendary Kenyan tribe ...
Disastrous Sinkholes From Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2013
In the last few years, news of unexpected sinkholes swallowing cars, houses and people have made headlines with disturbingly high frequency....
The Laxey Wheel: World's Largest Working Waterwheel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2013
The Laxey Wheel is a large waterwheel located in the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man, a tiny island in the Irish Sea between the islands...
Yida Refugee Camp in South Sudan
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
In a vast wetland, about 18 miles south of the contested border between Sudan and South Sudan, lies a sprawling refugee camp of those fleein...
Michael Light’s Aerial Photographs of Economic Collapse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer and pilot, focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to ...
International Camping Festival in China
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
Over 15,000 outdoor sports enthusiasts from all over China assembled at a hillside near Mount Wugongshan in China's Jiangxi province to ...
Ron Arad: Crushing Cars for Art
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2013
As a child, you may remember collecting flowers and sticking them between two pages of a thick book. A few days later they would be fragile ...
Lady Of The Lake: The Ghostly Remains of a B-29 Superfortress
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2013
The “Lady of the Lake” is what remains of a B-29 weather reconnaissance aircraft that rests in the middle of an Alaskan lake near Eielson Ai...
The Windswept Trees at Slope Point, New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2013
Slope Point is the most southern point of New Zealand’s South Island. The region is consistently lashed with fierce and cold southwesterly w...
The Flak Towers of the Luftwaffe
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
After the Royal Air Force bombed Berlin on October 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of several flak towers to protect his cities ...
Gateshead Millennium Bridge: World’s Only Tilting Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge spanning River Tyne in England between Gateshead's Quays arts quarter...
The Cave of Hands in Patagonia, Argentina
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
Prehistoric rock paintings, handprints and stencils span all continents, and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 ...
Submersible Bridges of Corinth Canal, Greece
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
The Corinth Canal in Greece cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, co...
Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings by Marcello Barenghi
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
Italian artist Marcello Barenghi draws incredibly realistically with the help of colored pencils and occasionally markers or watercolor. Hi...
German Political Parties Create Miniature Utopias to Showoff Their Vision for Their Country
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
Before the 2009 election kicked off in Germany, Hamburg’s miniature railway museum - Miniatur Wonderland - gave the country's main polit...
Walkie Talkie Building in London Creates ‘Death Ray’ with Reflected Sunlight
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2013
A new London skyscraper dubbed the "Walkie-Talkie" due to its distinctive shape, has been blamed for reflecting light and heat fro...
The Annual Chincoteague Pony Swim
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2013
Every year, some 150 wild Chincoteague ponies are rounded up on Assateague Island, a long barrier island located off the eastern coast of De...
The Cave Church of the Zabbaleen in Cairo
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Monastery of Saint Simon, also known as the Cave Church, is located in the Mokattam mountain in southeastern Cairo, Egypt, in an area th...
Enormous Statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
To the outside world, Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior who conquered half the known world in the 13th century, is remembered for...
Boardman Tree Farm in Oregon, USA
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Boardman Tree Farm is located in Morrow, county Oregon, along Interstate 84, 5 miles west of the I-82 junction. Owned by the GreenWood T...
Rapa River Delta, Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Rapa River (also called Rapaätno) flows through the Sarek National Park, winding through magnificent mountain ranges and narrow valleys,...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2013
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2013
Bloemencorso Zundert is the biggest event of the year for the small town of Zundert, the Netherlands, and incidentally, the largest flower ...
Artist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old To Create Surrealist Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2013
When illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks pulled out a new sketchbook she had specially ordered, she was apprehensive. The reason of her worry ...
Mysterious Cocoon With a Picket Fence
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
Researchers to an expedition to the rainforest in the Southern Peruvian Amazon have spotted, what appears to be a mysterious new cocoon. The...
Hezbollah Resistance Museum in Mleeta, Lebanon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
The Hezbollah Resistance Museum or the Tourist Landmark of the Resistance , as it is officially known, is an open air war museum created by ...
The Aftermath of a Music Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
The morning after the night the Reading Festival concluded, and the festival goers disseminated, photographer David White took off in a heli...
Exocoetidae: The Fish That Flies
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
Exocoetidae, commonly called Flying Fish, is a family of fishes aptly named for their ability to emerge out of the water and glide for long ...
Waw an Namus: An Oasis in a Volcanic Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2013
Waw an Namus is an extinct volcanic crater located in one of the remotest destinations in Libya, deep in the Sahara desert almost at its geo...
Travelling Sand Dunes of Fraser Island
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2013
Fraser Island is located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Brisbane. Stretch...
