Waiting for the Moon

Photo by Fausto Podavini, Italy
Children in Cuba lighting fireworks
Winner of Honorable Mention People Category National Geographic Photo Contest

Via: veronicarocha

Joker
Small fishing boat in storage, Fisherman’s Terminal Salmon Bay Seattle.
Holga photo 800ASA, by tsparks

Sleeping Lady Lodge
Leavenworth WA
photo by tsparks

Eugène Atget
‘Rue du Figuier’
1924
Albumen print, 9 in. x 7 in
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by Exchange, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.

Forgive me

The International Space Station
From essay about life in space by Bruce Sterling.

Ghost Fleet Moored Off Singapore:
12% Of Ocean Shipping Armada Stands Down
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 09.17.09

The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination - and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year

STAIRS
photo by Fabrice Traverse / Figure66@FLICKR

Thnx La Contesa

Photo by Michael Bednar

Istanbul 1940
View of streetcars & pedestrians crossing over the Golden Horn inlet on the Galata Bridge as the Galata Tower looms up fr. distant hill.


Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White @LIFE

The ferry ride between Tsawwassen and Vancouver Island.

photo by tsparks

Pigeon Towers of Iran

…..in 16th and 17th century Iran. Domesticated, pigeons were a valuable resource, or rather, their poop was. Rich in nitrogen, pigeon guano was used across Iran as a natural fertilizer for melon and cucumber fields.

To gather this precious resource, homes were built for the pigeons. Often over six stories high and 45 to 75 feet in diameter, these towering structures were filled with a honeycomb of small roosts for the pigeons. Each tower held as many as 14,000 pigeons.