Crescent Lake in Dunhuang China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
Crescent lake also called Yueyaquan in Chinese is a beautiful crescent-shaped lake located 6 km south of the Dunhuang city in the arms of th...
Abandoned World War II Monuments and Memorials in Yugoslavia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
During the 1960s and 70s, the then Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito, commissioned several memorial sites and monuments called ‘Spomenik...
Thousands Perform Yoga at Times Square in New York
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
Every year on the Solstice, Times Square in New York hosts a massive yoga demonstration that fills the street and stretches for at least thr...
9 de Julio Avenue: The Widest Street in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2012
9 de Julio Avenue (or Avenida 9 de Julio, in the local tongue) in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, is not just any street. Nine lanes wide,...
Magic Roundabout in Swindon: The Most Confusing Traffic Junction
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2012
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, constructed in 1972, is the most brilliant and at the same time, the most confusing roundabout eve...
Beautiful Black & White Storm Photography by Mitch Dobrowner
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2012
California-based photographer Mitch Dobrowner began shooting “Storms” in 2009 as an experiment to photograph the dramatic thunderstorms hap...
The Swimming Pigs of Big Major Cay, Bahamas
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2012
Big Major Cay in the Bahamas is a small, uninhabited island and very popular anchorage. The Exuma Banks side of the island has two beautiful...
Giant Storm Cloud Over Beijing
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2012
A strange cloud appeared last week in the skies over Beijing. Glowing like a huge "mushroom", similar to what is left after a nucl...
The Magic Realism of Rob Gonsalves
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2012
Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves surrealistic paintings portrays two seemingly different realistic scenes magically merging into one. As a re...
10 Largest Natural Arches in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2012
A natural arch is a geological formation where rocky cliffs subject to erosion from the sea, rivers or weathering forms a rock arch. Some na...
Lava Lake at Nyiragongo Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2012
Mount Nyiragongo is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and...
25 Cities With the Most Impressive Skyline (Part 2)
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2012
Continued from Part 1 Jakarta, Indonesia Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is Indonesia’s economic, cultural and political...
25 Cities With the Most Impressive Skyline (Part 1)
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2012
The skyline of a city is like a fingerprint, unique and as easily identifiable as a country's flag or a national symbol. The Empire Stat...
Floating Bicyclists by Zhao Huasen
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2012
Chinese photographer Zhao Huasen photographed hundreds of cyclists going about their way in Shanghai. He then digitally erased the bicycles ...
Portraits Made by Wrapping a Single Thread Around Nails by Kumi Yamashita
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2012
Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita , known for her innovative light and shadow portraits , is back with yet another astounding creation. In the ...
Olympic Athlete’s Diet
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2012
As the 2012 Olympic Games in London draws nearer, a group of Turkish Olympic hopefuls pose with their highly regimented daily diets for Reut...
Sharon Moody's Photorealist Paintings of Comic Books
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2012
Washington D.C. – based artist Sharon Moody paints gorgeous oil paintings of classic comic books in mid-read, capturing a moment in time as...
Siachen, The World's Highest Battlefield
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2012
The Siachen glacier, located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, is one of the five largest glaciers in the Karakoram,...
Geoffrey H. Short's Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2012
New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up explosions on the blac...
Ghostly Missile Vapor Trail Over Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2012
Russian photographer Maxim Korotchenko happened to catch these curious formation on the night sky over the city of Astrakhan, on June 7, 20...
