Jason Tozer’s Planetary Bubbles
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 8, 2012
These planetary pictures of Jupiter like gas-giants with swirling hurricanes are actually common soap bubbles. Photographer Jason Tozer was ...
The Curious Case of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2012
Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog are two municipalities that divide the town of Baarle on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. Baa...
Sawdust Carpets During Semana Santa in Antigua
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2012
Antigua, Guatemala puts up one of the largest Easter celebration in North America, with an estimated 200,000 people flocking to this Colonia...
Coming of Age in Cartography: Evolution of the World Map
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2012
Mapmaking has been an integral part of human history for thousands of years. It is believed that the human activity of graphically represent...
Les Machines de l'Île: Machines of the Isle of Nantes
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2012
Machines of the Isle of Nantes or Les Machines de l'Île de Nantes are a set of gigantic mechanical animals designed by Francois Delaroz...
Thousands of Pink Flamingos at Lake Nakuru, Kenya
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2012
Lake Nakuru is one of the three inter-linked lakes in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. These lakes are home to 13 globally threatened bird...
India’s Death Defying ‘Maut ka Kuaa’ or ‘Well of Death’
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2012
‘Maut ka Kuaa’, which translates to the ‘Well of Death’ in English, also sometimes called the ‘Wall of Death’, is a death defying and gravit...
Polish Architect Builds World’s Thinnest House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2012
Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across. The house is squeezed into an...
Javier Arizabalo’s Photorealistic Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2012
Javier Arizabalo was born in Saint Jean de Luz, France in 1965. His passion for art lead him to Bilbao, Spain where he studied and earned a...
Kowloon Walled City, a Population Density Nightmare
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2012
Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned Chinese settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong, comprising of 350 interconnected high-rise buildings ...
Verdon Gorge: The Grand Canyon of Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2012
The Verdon Gorge, called Gorges du Verdon in French, in south-eastern France between the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Var is a spectacula...
Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2012
American photographer Chris Jordan using large-scale works depict the magnitude of our consumerism and its impact on our environment. Like ...
The Tree Houses of the Korowai Tribe of New Guinea
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2012
Deep within the inaccessible jungle of the southeast Indonesian province of Papua, about 150 kilometres inland from the Arafura Sea, lives t...
Construction of an Amazing Underground Hotel in Songjiang Begins
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2012
Some years ago, a British engineering firm Atkins proposed an extravagant design for a five-star hotel located deep within a 100-meter, aba...
V8 Car Themed Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2012
Located in Stuttgart, Germany - a German international hub for car dealers - the V8 Hotel is a paradise for car enthusiasts. The hotel featu...
Volkswagen’s Car Towers at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2012
The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It featu...
Human Tower Building at Castells Competition in Tarragona
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2012
The Tarragona Human Tower Competition is an annual sporting event carried out by the best teams in the country and it is held every two year...
The Dubai Fountain - World’s Largest Dancing Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2012
Set on the 30-acre Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, the Dubai fountain can shoot 83,000 liters o...
Inside Google’s Data Centers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
Google has just launched a new site that offers visitors a glimpse into the massive data centers that power Google. The site features photo...
Andy Rudak’s Cardboard Cities
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
London-based still life advertising photographer Andy Rudak has recently embarked on a more personal project, creating a series of cityscap...
The Lumberjacks Who Felled California’s Giant Redwoods
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
This series of photos from the 1915-era capture lumberjacks working among the redwoods in Humboldt County, California, when tree logging was...
Portraits of Famous People on Fingers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
An Italian artist going by the name of Dito Von Tease has created “ Ditology ”, a project where portraits of famous people, real or fictiona...
Damien Hirst’s Controversial Pregnant Woman Sculpture in Ilfracombe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2012
The skyline of the seaside town of Ilfracombe in north Devon, England, is about to change, and not many residents are happy about it. A 20 m...
Portraits of Rural Chinese Families with Everything They Own
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2012
Photographer Huang Qingjun has spent the past ten years travelling to remote parts of China persuading people to have their photographs tak...
Ernest Zacharevic’s Playful Street Art
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2012
Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic has been transforming the streets of Penang, Malaysia with a brilliant series of interactive murals. Th...
Trou de Fer Gorge in The Island of Reunion
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2012
Trou de Fer is one of the most spectacular sights of La Reunion, a French island lying some 650 km off Madagascar's east coast, close to...
Chicken Buses of Guatemala
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2012
What happens to yellow school buses retired from commission in the United States? They start a new colorful life as Chicken Buses in Guatema...
Michael Marten’s Dramatic Pictures of Low and High Tides
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2012
For eight years, English photographer Michael Marten has been travelling to different parts of the British coastline, recording the daily r...
Pre-Islamic Civilization in Madain Saleh in Saudi Arabia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2012
Madain Saleh is a pre-Islamic archaeological site located in the Al-Ula sector, within the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia, approximately ...
Pitch Lake, Trinidad - The Largest Natural Deposit of Asphalt
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2012
The Pitch Lake is located in southwest Trinidad in the village of La Brea. It’s the largest and most significant pitch lake in the world, me...
The Great Train Story at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2012
The Great Train Story is one of the world’s largest HO scale model railroads display located in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chica...
Rapeseed Fields in Luoping, China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2012
Luoping is a small county in eastern Yunnan, China, located about 228 kilometers north east of Kunming close to the border of Yunnan with Gu...
Chand Baori Step Well in Rajasthan, India
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2012
Chand Baori in Abhaneri village in eastern Rajasthan, India, is one of the most overlooked landmarks in the country. It is one of the oldest...
Bleduk Kuwu – Mud Volcanoes in Central Java
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2012
Bleduk Kuwu is a crater of mud in Wirosari area in Grobogan Region, Purwodadi, Central Java. Every two or three minutes, the placid water of...
Lakes of Ounianga, Sahara Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2012
The Lakes of Ounianga consist of 18 lakes located in the heart of the Sahara Desert, in an extremely arid region of northern Chad where the ...
10 Wacky Festivals Celebrated in the Month of October
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2012
Here is another round of unusual festivals celebrated in October in different parts of the world. Tübingen Duck Race Every year since 19...
Ruins of the Commagene Kingdom at Mount Nemrut
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2012
Mount Nemrut also called Mount Nemrud is one of the most interesting tourist attractions of Turkey. At the summit of this approximately 2000...
Classrooms Around the World by Julian Germain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2012
Julian Germain is a British photographer based in North East UK who has published and exhibited widely, notably at the Photographers’ Galle...
Photographs of Mirrors on Easels that Look Like Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2012
Indianapolis-born and New York City-based photographer Daniel Kukla spent last March living in Joshua Tree National Park in southern Califo...
Horizontal Waterfalls in Talbot Bay, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2012
The Horizontal Falls or Horizontal Waterfalls are located in the Talbot Bay in the Kimberley region of western Australia. Although called wa...
The Moving Island of Schiermonnikoog
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2012
Schiermonnikoog is a small island off the coast of the Netherlands that has been continuously moving to the south and the east, due to the c...
Towering Rocks of Ennedi Desert in Chad, Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2012
The Ennedi plateau or the Ennedi desert as it is sometimes called is located in the north-eastern area of Chad in one of the most inaccessib...
Switzerland Unveils World's First Double-Decker Cable Car
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2012
Switzerland has unveiled a new double-decker cable car, reportedly the first one in the world, near the city of Lucerne. The cable car, chri...
Terrifying Yet Beautiful Pictures of Fire Tornadoes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2012
Film-maker Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film and Television was filming a wildfire in Curtin Springs, Australia, when a small twister touch...
Glastonbury Tor, England
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2012
Glastonbury Tor is a large hill located in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, with a roofless St. Michael's Tower on its summit. Tor is a l...
Miniature Urban Sculpture by Alan Wolfson
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2012
Alan Wolfson has been creating miniature urban dioramas of grimy New York scenes since the mid-1970s. His intricately detailed scenes featu...
European Beard and Moustache Championships 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2012
The 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships took place in Wittersdorf, France on Sept. 22, 2012. About a hundred participants from a...
Leonid Afremov’s Colorful Palette Knife Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2012
Leonid Afremov is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. Using his unique knife pa...
Brambles Bank Cricket Match: Cricket on The Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2012
The Brambles sandbank in central Solent, midway between Southampton and the Isle of Wight, is a low-tide sandbank that appears only once eac...
Pictures from Munich Oktoberfest 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2012
The world's largest beer festival opened Saturday in Munich, Germany. More than 6 million guests from around the world are expected to d...
