Wuppertal Schwebebahn: Germany’s Hanging Train
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2012
Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. First opened in 1901, the Wuppertal Schwebe...
Showing posts from June, 2012
Niagara Falls Light Show
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2012
From the beginning of November until the first week of January, the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights takes place. During these two mo...
Impressive Architectures at City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2012
The City of Arts and Sciences is a large-scale urban recreation center for culture and science in the city of Valencia, Spain. Designed by V...
Ordinary Batman Adventures
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2012
Ordinary Batman Adventures is a humorous art series by freelance illustrator and artist Sarah Johnson, where she humanizes Batman by depict...
Glass Sculptures by Robert Micklesen
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2012
Florida-based Robert Micklesen is one of the world's most renown glass artists. His creations are revered as revolutionary in the glass...
Colorful and Picturesque Villages of Faroe Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
The Faroe Islands is a group of 18 islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and ...
Nathan Walsh’s Oil Paintings of Urban Landscape
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
Nathan Walsh creates amazing photorealistic paintings of cityscapes. “I am fascinated by the city”, says Nathan Walsh. “It's visual com...
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...
Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia’s Incredible Landscape
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2012
Cappadocia is an area in Central Anatolia in Turkey with the most dramatic landscape in Europe. Over thousands of years, wind and rain erode...
Alnwick Poison Garden
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2012
The Alnwick Poison Garden is one of the many public gardens attached to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England. The castle itself is the ...
Wire Sculptures That Looks Like Sketches by David Oliveira
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2012
Lisbon-born sculptor David Oliveira creates delicate sculptures using wire that’s formed to look like ink sketches hovering in air. Some pi...
Kittiwat Unarrom Creates Gruesome Human Body Parts out of Bread
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2012
Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom bakes disturbingly realistic bread sculpted in the shape of dismembered human body parts. Since 2006 ...
Stunning Photos of Waves by Nick Selway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2012
These incredible pictures capture the stunning moment waves roll on to a tropical beach. Photographers Nick Selway, 28, and pal CJ Kale, 35,...
Whimsical Rock Formations at Little Finland, Nevada
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2012
Deep in the Nevada desert reachable by an off-beaten track called Gold Butte Byway, lies a fascinating area that few people know about. It’s...
Multicolored Salt Ponds at San Francisco Bay
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2012
If you ever fly over San Francisco Bay, be sure to peer out of the window to catch a glimpse of one of the world's most incredibly colou...
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: The Driest Place on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2012
Antarctica is covered with ice, but not all of it. The McMurdo Dry Valleys is almost entirely snow free. Located among mountains by McMurdo ...
Flower Paradise at Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2012
Hitachi Seaside Park, located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, next to the Ajigaura Beach, is a flower park and a popular tourist ...
Beautiful Colored Pencil Drawings by Joseph Crone
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2012
Joseph Crone graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design the summer of 2010 with the intention to explore, through the realistic dua...
Michael Mapes’s Dissected Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2012
New York based artist Michael Mapes creates elaborate portraits by dissecting photographs and reconstructing them once again to recreate th...
Lake Retba Looks Like a Giant Strawberry Milkshake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2012
Lake Retba or Lac Rose lies north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, north east of Dakar. Depending on the time of day, the lake changes ...
Kiev Fire Festival 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2012
For the sixth year in a row, the Kiev International Fire Festival was held in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, on 25th-26th of May 2012. T...
8 Wacky Festivals Celebrated in the Month of June
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2012
We have seen many strange festivals, customs and rituals followed by people in various countries and culture. Thousands of years of human ex...
World's Longest Yard Sale on U.S. Route 127
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2012
The World's Largest Yard Sale, also known as the Highway 127 Corridor Sale or simply 127 Yard Sale , is an outdoor second-hand sale held...
Sleeping Chinese People
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2012
German photographer Bernd Hagemann has long been fascinated by China and its people, particularly the way they slept at every street corner ...
Hand Painted Movie Posters From Ghana
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2012
When the first video cassette recorders reached Ghana in the 1980s and gradually a rental structure arose for homegrown movies, in the urban...
Playa de Gulpiyuri, a Beach Without the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2012
Playa de Gulpiyuri or the Gulpiyuri Beach is a shell shaped little beach located in the middle of a grassy meadow, near Llanes, a small town...
The Disappearing Aral Lake and the Ship Graveyard of Moynaq
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2012
Moynaq (also spelled as Muynak and Moynaq) is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Half a century ago, the city was loca...
