365 Postcards for Ants by Lorraine Loots
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Everyday, Cape Town-based artist Lorraine Loots creates a miniature painting for her ongoing project “365 Postcards for Ants.” Using paint ...
St Michael's Mount of Cornwall
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
St. Michael's Mount is a tidal island located about 360 meters off the coast of Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England. Perched on t...
Chinese City Opens Sidewalk For Mobile Phone Users
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
Walking the streets in any major city today is a peril for pedestrians, not from cars, but from fellow pedestrians who are too engrossed on ...
The Sand Dunes of Maspalomas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
The Dunes of Maspalomas is a spectacular 4 square km field of sand located in the tourist town of Maspalomas in the south of the island of G...
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a tomb located on the road between the cities of Cherchell and Algiers, in Algeria. It is the final res...
The Fence of Carnegie Mellon University: The Most Painted Object in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University has a low concrete fence in the middle of its campus. For the last 70 years, students have been ...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2014
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, hosts the world’s biggest flower parade, featuring twenty floats of ...
Kiss The Blarney Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Near the village of Blarney, in Ireland, about 8 km north-west of the small city of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle. At the top of the castle ...
The Strange Beauty of Abandoned Duck Blinds by Dave Jordano
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2014
Along the banks of the Mississippi River on the solid ice, duck hunters set up blinds, a cover device designed to conceal, and at the same t...
The Lighthouse of Strombolicchio
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Strombolicchio (or tiny Stromboli) is a sea stack of volcanic origin located about 2 km to the northeast of the island of Stromboli in the T...
Goree Island: Senegal’s Slave Trade Center
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Gorée is a small island located off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal, about 2 km out into the sea. It was the site of one of the earliest Euro...
The Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2014
In the old part of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, at the center of a roundabout surrounded by a concrete fence stands an enormo...
Miracle Village: A Community of Sex Offenders
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2014
Deep in sugar cane county of south Florida, in the US, on the edge of the everglades, about two miles from the nearest town, is a community ...
The Painted Houses of The Ndebeles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2014
The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to thei...
A Prada Store in The Middle of The Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2014
In a desolate strip, just off U.S. Route 90 in West Texas, about 60 km northwest of the city of Marfa, lies a tiny Prada store. On the front...
Petoskey Stones of Michigan
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2014
Petoskey stones are composed of fossilized skeletons of Hexagonaria percarinata , a type of coral from coral reefs that once covered all of ...
Passage du Gois: A Tidal Causeway in France
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
Passage du Gois is a submersible causeway in the Bay of Bourgneuf, linking the island of Noirmoutier to the mainland in the department of Ve...
The Colossal Stepped Spillway of Robert-Bourassa Reservoir
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
The Robert-Bourassa Reservoir is located in northern Quebec, in Canada. It was created in the mid-1970s by impounding the La Grande River to...
The Kasubi Tombs of Uganda
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
The burial tombs of the Buganda Kings on Kasubi hill, in Kampala district, in Uganda, are a major spiritual center for the Baganda people wh...
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2014
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a submarine ridge located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, that wraps around the globe for more than 65,000 ...
