Tag: Daily Photograph

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft is lifted on to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome this morning. The Soyuz spacecraft is to bring US astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to the International Space Station later this week. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters

I adore this so much. It’s so well composed, there is so much to unpack in it…

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Snow covers the ‘Piazza Duomo’ square in Milan, on December 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

I admit it: I am dreaming of a White Christmas this year, even though it’s apparently unlikely to happen here in Portland.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A tray of glass eyes are pictured at the medical equipment shop of optician Gerhard Greiner in Munich. Greiner produces individual hand glass-blown human eye prostheses for people who have lost an eye or eyes due to a trauma, illness or accident. Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

I love that this is immediately both horrific and oddly amusing to look at.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

LONDON, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 12:  A man walks through the early morning frost in Regents Park on December 12, 2012 in London, England. Forecasters have warned that the UK could experience the coldest day of the year so far today, with temperatures dropping as low as -14C, bringing widespread ice, harsh frosts and freezing fog. Travel disruption is expected with warnings for heavy snow in some parts of the country.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

You can feel the chill in this pic. I don’t miss the prospect of -14C temperatures, but I do admit that such chills and frosts do seem somewhat festive in the way that Portland weather doesn’t, right now?

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

An Indian schoolgirl cycles home from school at Fulbari village, on the outskirts of Siliguri on December 11, 2012.   New data showed that while India’s population remains largely rural, its urban population has grown to 377 million, or 31.1 per cent of the 1.21 billion population, from 286 million or 27.8 per cent of the population in 2001.  AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTADIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A man prepares to bathe in the Cantabric Sea at the beach named La Concha, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The air temperature was 9 degrees Celsius ( 48.2 Fahrenheit) and the water temperature 13 degrees Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit).  AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

This brave, stupid man. I’m reminded of a time when friends tried to convince me to run into the Ocean at sunrise, back when I lived in Aberdeen, in Scotland; even then, I knew it was a terrible, terrible idea.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Light fantastic! An installation by artist Damien Fontaine at Les Chrysalides de Saint-Jean Cathedral during the rehearsal for the Festival of Lights in central Lyon, France. Photograph: Robert Pratta/REUTERS

What I love about this photo is the color of the sky; you can tell that it’s a winter’s night, cloudy and grim and lit from the world below. It reminds me of a trip to Paris when I was 21 at this time of year and the way the night looked then.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

People struggle against wind and drifting snow in Stockholm on December 5, 2012. Forecasters have issued a class 2 storm warning for central and southern Sweden, saying that Stockholm may face up to 30 centimetres of snow in the next 24 hours.  AFP PHOTO / ANDERS WIKLUND / SWEDEN OUTANDERS WIKLUND/AFP/Getty Images

As weird as it seems, I feel almost jealous.