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Horrific soccer injury

Yein Jee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:20:04 +0000

A horrific soccer injury in English Premier League… Arsenal’s Croation striker Eduardo suffered a broken ankle resulted from a tackle, and would likely to be sidelined for nine months.

While this might not be the worst injury people have ever seen on football field… this photo taken by a sport journalist that reflects the exact moment of the tackle are definitely horrifying. Eduardo’s ankle could be seen completely twisted (and broken) following the impact…

Horrible injury, but great photo. Get well soon Eduardo.

Cheers

Yein Jee — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:23:44 +0000

Once in a lifetime photo…

Cheers… oppsss… (Image courtesy of Blakesamic, via Neatorama)

UFO sightings at Cornwall, England

Yein Jee — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:41:46 +0000

This photo of a UFO over Cornwall is hailed by experts as one of the best ever taken in Britain.

UFO sightings at Cornwall

55-year-old Kelvin Barbery snapped the mystery object on Dec 29 (2007) from a coastal path between Swanpool and Maenporth, near Falmouth.

In a weird twist, Kelvin did not even see the UFO at the time. He thought he was just taking a sea view… but when he loaded the digital camera card on to his computer, the round metallic ‘craft’ was in the centre of the shot, about two miles away. [Thesun]

This news surprisingly didn’t make it big on international papers. Perhaps people are getting bored over pictures, reports, news and videos about UFO sightings, which are often found as fraud in the end.

Personally I do believe that there are other living beings out there… it would be too arrogant to think that human beings are the only intellectual livings in this mass universe.

Best Visual Illusion of 2007

Yein Jee — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:31:25 +0000

Below is the winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2007 organised by The Neural Correlate Society.

The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are identical but it gave an impression that the right tower leans more than the left… simple yet amazing. [Why?]

“The Leaning Tower Illusion” by Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena Gheorghiu

The Neural Correlate Society is a nonprofit organization that promotes scientific research into the neural correlates of sensory perception, awareness, and cognitive experience.

National Geographic Int’l Photography Contest winners

Yein Jee — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:26:41 +0000

National Geographic has chosen 4 winners (one for each category) from 148,203 images submitted to the International Photography Contest.

Photo by Li Feng, winner of animal category – which shows some caged monkeys await their fate at a medical laboratory in Hubei Province, China

View all winning pictures from National Geographic.

Washington, dollar notes, fun perspective

Yein Jee — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:32:16 +0000

Interesting photos from Flickr user Musely, by lining up dollar notes with the Washington D.C. buildings depicted on them. The US $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes feature the Lincoln Memorial, US Treasury, White House and Capitol respectively.

Image courtesy of Musely [Hat tip to Neatorama]

Lovely sunbeam

Yein Jee — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:36:42 +0000

Photos of lovely sunlight beaming through thick leafs of some dense forest…

(All images courtesy of Xinhuanet)

Bikini babes set record at Bondi Beach

Yein Jee — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:13:11 +0000

A total of 1,010 bikini-clad women have made history at Bondi Beach, Australia, where they set a world record by posing in the largest swimsuit photo shoot ever.

The shoot will appear in the January issue of Cosmopolitan, and will also feature in the next edition of the Guinness World Records book, out in September 2008. [News]

World record breaking bikini babes

The girls are grouped to form the world COSMO (for Cosmopolitan magazine)

Aerial view of the feat (All images courtesy of Xinhuanet)

Ancient and modern Cairo

Yein Jee — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:50:18 +0000

An amazing photo with the dark cloud hovered over the urban Cairo, while in distance the ancient Pyramids of Giza were bathed in sunlight.

(Image courtesy of Graspnext)

Yin and Yang Egg

Yein Jee — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:51:18 +0000

An interesting piece of photography that requires passion and patience to produce…

(Image courtesy of Dpchallenge, via Neatorama)

Norbert Wu: Under Antarctic Ice

Yein Jee — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:46:46 +0000

“Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu” is a photo-book first published in 2004, with over 100s of photos taken by international renowned photographer Norbert Wu.

A group of Emperor penguins darts in the water; emperors can dive to 600m and stay underwater for 20 minutes (Courtesy of Time)

The book is a collection of amazing photographs taken in the water under the Antarctica ice, with strange life forms that we don’t normally see elsewhere.

A scyphomedusa, the largest plankton in the area, has tentacles over 9m in length and its bell can reach over 1m in diameter (Courtesy of Time)

The omnivorous Odontaster validus, or red star, feeds on another sea star species, the larger Acodontaster conspicuus (Courtesy of Time)

[Buy Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu]

More images and stories at Time [Hat tip to Hemmy]