Cool Pictures Thread (no chat)

A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the trooping the colour parade in June, 1970, London

Link if its too large

http://i.imgur.com/fqtJrvt.jpg

endacl

More here.

I thought this one was interesting. One of few pictures where Hitler is smiling.

recyclops

underwater ballroom in witley estate in england.

A giant statue of Neptune sits atop an underwater dome enclosing a secret room under the lake of the Whitley Estate in England


The entire estate was drenched in opulence and extravagance. It was built in the late 1800s by Whitaker Wright, a shady businessman who was convicted of fraud after many years of floating bad loans and swindling investors. In 1904, he took his own life via cyanide pill on the day of his sentencing.

The roof of the ballroom is paned in translucent glass to let light filter through from the water above


A long hallway connects the dome to the entrance, here lit by long exposure


Stairs down to it on lakeside


stairs entrance and statue behind it showing ballroom location

Daithi 1

http://www.michigannutphotography.com/michigan-lighthouses/h53c4cc46#h536a3502

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Multiple exposures of a day's takeoffs from a runway at Hanover airport. A flock of aircraft!

endacl

More airplane stuff.

Lon exposure takeoff...



Many takeoffs...



Still a flying one. Moths...

LaVail

Mobile flood wall in Austria

http://i.imgur.com/8RzuNsW.jpg

Video too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQyTOaBHzI

Andrewf20

If Jupiter was where the moon is...

LEIN

snow scorpion

The Sun, photographed from the same spot, at the same hour, on different days throughout the year.

LEIN

snow scorpion wrote: »

The Sun, photographed from the same spot, at the same hour, on different days throughout the year.

Any idea of location?

Awkward Badger

LEIN wrote: »

Any idea of location?

Turkey the pattern is called an Analemma apparently.

endacl

LEIN wrote: »

Any idea of location?

Up in the sky, I believe.

Capt'n Midnight

Awkward Badger wrote: »

Turkey the pattern is called an Analemma apparently.

This also affects sundials. But you can use this to add corrections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time

Son Of A Vidic

Into The Blue

Awkward Badger wrote: »

Turkey the pattern is called an Analemma apparently.

that's my ex girlfriends name o.O

Awkward Badger

Into The Blue wrote: »

that's my ex girlfriends name o.O

Turkey ? She sounds like quite the bird...

barney 20v

Into The Blue wrote: »

that's my ex girlfriends name o.O

Juvenile but brilliant - best post I've seen on boards in ages!

Son Of A Vidic

Midnight Sun in Lofoten, Norway.

snow scorpion

LEIN

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10856494_1546841098892415_4113877899165370416_o.jpg

snow scorpion

1. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink.

2. Green Catastrophe: If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green.

3. Reality Shatter: Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, many if not all of the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you may only see a green dot rotating.

LEIN

osarusan

Don't know if this qualifies as cool, but all of what you can see on the right is a new island, created by volcanic eruption. There was nothing there before December 2013. It's now about 20 acres and still growing.

It's off the coast of Japan and is called Nishinoshima (which is actually the name of the older, smaller island on the left, that has now been joined by the new and bigger island).

BrokenArrows

osarusan wrote: »

Don't know if this qualifies as cool, but all of what you can see on the right is a new island, created by volcanic eruption. There was nothing there before December 2013. It's now about 20 acres and still growing.

It's off the coast of Japan and is called Nishinoshima (which is actually the name of the older, smaller island on the left, that has now been joined by the new and bigger island).

I wonder how you go about buying newly created land. Who owns it??
Buy now and your investment might keep growing. Lol

Guy:Incognito

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Buy now and your investment might keep growing. Lol

It also may well burn you to death.

JaseBelleVie

If there's any oil under it, you can be sure the Yanks will go after it! :P

Son Of A Vidic

Son Of A Vidic

3D printed prosthesis....