Pre-Inca Salt Pools at Maras, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2013
Located 40 kilometers north of Cuzco in Peru, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, lies the town of Maras, well known for its nearby salt evap...
Where the Namib Desert meets the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2013
The Southern Namib desert is home to some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world, ranging in color from pink to vivid orange...
Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
Originally known as the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater mausoleum for cremated remains. Located 3.25 mile...
Creative Food Art by Hong Yi
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
Hong Yi is a talented Malaysian artist and architect who uses all sorts of unconventional objects to create portraits. She was featured twi...
Sunken Observation Platform in the Middle of a Pond
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
There is a clever observation platform built into a pond in Vöcklabruck, Austria. The platform, rather than being raised, is sunken into th...
Complexities of Airports Photographed From Above
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
Some of you readers may remember Jeffrey Milstein from his photographs of the underbellies of aircraft , which he captured by standing at th...
The Thorne Miniature Rooms
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2013
In a special wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in the Phoenix Art Museum, are several exhibits of incredibly detailed miniature room...
The White Towns of Andalusia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2013
In southern Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, between the Atlantic in the west and the Mediterranean in the east, lies some o...
Mysterious Fairy Circles of Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2013
In the grasslands of southern Africa, there are thousands of circular barren patches of land called ‘fairy circles’. They grow between 2 met...
Urban Landscape Paintings by Marc Trujillo
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2013
American painter Marc Trujillo depicts places in his paintings that are omnipresent in American urban and suburban landscapes such as gas st...
Linn Cove Viaduct: The Most Environment Friendly Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2013
Linn Cove Viaduct is a 379 meter concrete segmental bridge which snakes around the slopes of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Complet...
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2013
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a ...
Chinese People on Trains by Wang Fuchun
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2013
Beijing-based photographer Wang Fuchun produced this series of incredibly vivid pictures of Chinese passengers on trains. A railway worker-t...
The Meandering Alatna River in Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2013
The Alatna River is one of the six federally designated wild and scenic river partially contained within the boundaries of Gates of the Arct...
Metropol Parasol: The World's Largest Wooden Structure
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2013
Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. Designed by German architect ...
The Old Town of Ghadames
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2013
Ghadames, known as the “pearl of the desert”, is an oasis town in the Nalut District of the Tripolitania region in southwestern Libya. It is...
Flowering of Lupins in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2013
Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the ...
Lake Natron, Tanzania
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2013
Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, and just north east of the Ngorongoro Crater, in the ea...
Surrealistic Landscape of Deadvlei, Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2013
The picture below is not that of a painting. It was taken inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia, in a strange and alien landscape called...
Sea Launch: Launching Satellites From the Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2013
The two giant ships, a NASA-like mission control and a launch pad floating on the ocean, form part of an audacious, outrageously expensive, ...
