Tag: Daily Photograph

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A young female bear plays with a barrel in the South Kamchatka Sanctuary, Russia. The sanctuary occupies 225,000 hectares of land and is listed as a Unesco world heritage site. More than 1,000 brown bears live there. Photograph: Igor Shpilenok/Barcroft Media

Sure, it looks cute now, but one day we’ll look back and think of this pic as the first hint of things to come in the Planet of the Apes-style bear-centric world in which we’ve come to know.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Tigger, the Pomeranian, is groomed by Michelle Ridenour during the 137th Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

Oh, come on. Just look at how happy he looks.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

An amazing sight as fireworks illuminate the skyline in Hong Kong for Chinese new year. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

Let’s Begin Again.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A child held by his father cries as he holds an umbrella in the snow at the Shanghai Railway Station in Shanghai, China. Million of Chinese are expected to cramp onto China’s train network in the coming weeks to return home for the Chinese Lunar New Year. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

I think we can all say that this week has made us feel a little like this little kid looks, right…?

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

More dog news: Duma, a seven-year-old Jack Russell terrier, rides a wakeboard pulled by a remote controlled boat operated by her owner Cliff Bode, of Chicago, while practicing for the Vancouver International boat show in Vancouver, British Columbia, last night. Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP

There is no good reason in the world to make this poor dog do this.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Gale-force winds from the north make spectacular pictures as they battered the seafront at Seahman harbour, south of Sunderland. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

GET OUT OF THAT LIGHTHOUSE. You’re going to be crushed by a gigantic, terrifying wave.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A NASA image of cosmic clouds and stellar winds featuring LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion’s stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the wind from our own middle-aged Sun. Photograph: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team

Just think: We’re all living on a tiny blue marble in the middle of things like this.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Fireworks are lit at the crematorium to mark the beginning of the cremation of the remains of Cambodia’s late King Norodom Sihanouk, near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

There’s something wonderfully celebratory about this whole thing. “We’re cremating someone! Time for fireworks!” I feel as if there are lessons I could learn from this attitude to death, and apply them to my general attitude to life.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A zookeeper prods a person acting as a tranquilized zebra during a drill to practice what to do in the event of an animal escape at the Tama zoo in Tokyo, Japan. Yes, it’s a mad world. Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images

This… just looks ridiculous and amazing.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Street art: pedestrians walk past an office building with a decorative light display in the City of London, on a windy day in the capital. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Clearly, someone is trying to hypnotize Londoners as they go about their day for some kind of nefarious scheme, right…?