Bristlecone Pines – The Oldest Trees on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2013
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines, or Pinus longaeva , is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest Unit...
Kelvin Helmholtz Clouds
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2013
Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds resemble waves breaking in the ocean. These clouds are formed between two layers of air with different densities and...
Amazing Driftwood Sculptures by Jeffro Uitto
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2013
Washington-based artist Jeffro Uitto creates jaw-dropping sculptures out of driftwood. Jeffro has been building things out of wood since hi...
Room Portraits by Menno Aden
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2013
German photographer Menno Aden shot a series of pictures of Berlin interiors looking down from the ceiling – a series he calls “Room Portra...
Wall of Tears, Mount Waialeale, Hawaii
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2013
Mount Waialeale (or Wai'ale'ale) is a volcanic crater and the second highest point on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. I...
Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2013
The Reed Flute Cave is a natural cave carved out of the karst limestone mountains over millions of years, and has been one of Guilin’s most ...
Dettifoss - The Most Powerful Waterfall in Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2013
The waterfall Dettifoss is located in Vatnajökull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and reputed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europ...
Kacper Kowalski’s Aerial Photos of Poland's Forests in Autumn
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2013
Jutting out into the southern Baltic sea, Pomerania in Poland is famous for its large swathes of forests, dotted with lakes and meandering r...
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2013
The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Southern Yunnan, China, covers an immense 16,603-hectares. These spectacular terraces cascade down the slop...
Rozenburg Wind Wall
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2013
Rozenburg is a small port town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. After the second World ...
Jökulsárlón: The Lake of Glaciers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 24, 2013
Jokulsarlon is a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland, on the borders of Vatnajökull National Park, and one of the most famous tourist ...
Photos of Bullets Sliced in Half by Sabine Pearlman
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2013
Sabine Pearlman 's intriguing photo series "Ammo" features images of a variety of ammunitions that have been neatly cut in hal...
Incredible Long Exposure Photos Reveal the Intense Battle During the Vietnam War
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2013
James Speed Hensinger, a Vietnam War veteran, has released a set of incredible night-time photographs he took of American troops opening fir...
The Rude Man of Cerne
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2013
The Rude Man of Cerne, better known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, is a giant figure of a naked man with an inappropriately erect phallus, wieldi...
Grass Covered Tram Tracks in Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2013
Tram tracks on many European cities are lined with grass, a practice that probably started in the 1980’s to bring greenery back to city spac...
Flatirons of Green Mountain, Colorado
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2013
The Flatirons are a series of steeply sloping wedge-shaped rock formations near Boulder, Colorado. There are five large, Flatirons ranging f...
The Sand Dunes of Rub al Khali
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2013
Rubʿ al-Khali, (literally “Empty Quarter” in Arabic), also spelled Al-Rabʿ al-Khali, is a vast desert in the southern Arabian Peninsula, cov...
Blue Lake, Nelson, New Zealand - The Clearest Lake in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2013
Blue Lake (Rotomairewhenua in Māori) is a small fresh water lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, in the northern reaches of New Zealand's...
The Crooked Forest of Gryfino, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2013
In a tiny corner in north-west Poland near Gryfino, is a forest of about 400 pine trees that grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their...
‘Ring of Life’: A 515 Feet Ring of Steel in Fushun, China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2013
A new landmark is taking shape in the north-eastern city of Fushun in Liaoning province in China. A gigantic steel loop dubbed the ‘Ring of ...
