The most famos Paul after Sir McCartney, also known as the Oracle Octopus, passed away in the night aged two and a half years, when all three of his hearts ceased to beat at once. He was unmarried and leaves no larvae so unfortunately he couldn't transmit its magical genes leaving the world without its unerring forecastings.
©Massimo Santoni
Another amzing picture from the Your Shot section of National Geographic website. The photographer, Massimo Santoni, shot this boy using a coffin as a boat in the holy Bagmati River, at Pashupatinath, Nepal.We don't know anything more about the story behind, but probably this just adds some mistery to this wonderful shot.
©Carl Warner
I've always been a great fan of Carl Warner's foodscapes, those wonderful landscapes made up with just... food!
He is getting more and more famous thanks to his creative idea and many food-producing brands has used his masterpieces for their advertising campaigns. Obviously at the same time many other photographers are trying to copy the idea but, as usual, Warner's work, with ten year experience and a lot of passion, is always the best.
I've seen many many bizarre umbrellas in my life, but this is by far the most unconventional one and, if it works, I really would like to have one!
Imagine the faces of your friends, when during a rainy day you draw an umbrella with no canopy... you push a button and a sheet of air becomes a barrier between you and the raindrops!
Photograph by Mike Sutton Brown, via NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM
A wonderful shot of an Atlantic Tarpon hunting a school of Silversides. The picture was taken by Mike Sutton Brown and uploaded on the Your Shot section of National Geographic website, a place where it's possible to submit a favorite photo for possible publication in National Geographic. Just like in this case you can find many wonderful and ispiring shots there. You can also download this photo as a wallpaper.
The picture was taken at Eden Rock, Grand Cayman. For just a short time every year these silversides swarm caves and swim-throughs at Cayman's dive sites. The picture was taken late afternoon just as the sun was going down. The photographer was hiding behind the silversides, low in the rocks. As the tarpon swam through the silversides, they eventually saw him and turned away. Just like you see in the picture.
Have you ever wondered how big is the skull of a blue whale? well the answer is in the picture here above and it's a BIG answer...
After all, Blue Whales at over 33 metres (108 ft) in length and 180 metric tons (200 short tons) or more in weight, are the largest animal ever known to have existed (that means also larger than Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus and Whatever-saurus).
After all, Blue Whales at over 33 metres (108 ft) in length and 180 metric tons (200 short tons) or more in weight, are the largest animal ever known to have existed (that means also larger than Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus and Whatever-saurus).
Photo: Banksy.co.uk
Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist, political activist and painter, whose identity is unconfirmed, has always had environmental issues as one of his favourite themes.
This time he has cleverly "reconditioned" a dolphin shaped kiddie ride in a anti-BP statement with the help of an oil drum and a tuna net.
Photo: © Carlo Borlenghi
Try to imagine a wonderful, extreme, sport challenge taking place in one of the less known but most beautiful and intriguing areas of the world. What am I talking about? simple: Mongolia Bike Challenge, a brand new 12 legs Mountain Bike race across Mongolia, a place so wild and untouched by humans that every leg takes place in a different environment: from sand dunes
National Geographic delights us with this first ever video of sea lions hunting a large octopus. The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat. It has been realized thanks to a Crittercam, the small package of instruments including a camera that can be attached to a wild animal to study its behaviour in the wild. Crittercam was invented by National Geographic marine biologist Greg Marshall in 1986. Since than it has been employed in studies on over 40 marine and terrestrial animals and on the Emperor Penguin obtaining the footagr used in the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins.
©Guido Trombetta/b-plan
Last weekend I was in Lerici for the first event of the 2010 edition of the Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series. Very strange conditions: huge waves and very light wind:
