Tag: Daily Photograph

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A man paints puppets to be included in illuminated panels illustrating episodes from the life of Buddha, ahead of Vesak Day celebrations in Colombo. Vesak, which is celebrated on May 24 and 25 in Sri Lanka, commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

I am operating on jet lag, timezone difference and probably not enough sleep. I feel like this is an accurate image of the inside of my brain, today.

Also, I’m back from the U.K.! Hello again.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying US astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, descends about 90 miles south-east of the town of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, this morning. Photograph: Sergei Remizov/AP

I’m traveling later today; getting in a plane and crossing the Atlantic to go and see family, and as a result will be entirely offline/unreachable for about thirteen hours or so. I’m both looking forward to it, in some strange way – It’ll allow me to catch up on some work stuff (Transcribing, reading, thinking) that I’m far behind on, and there’s something to be said for the appeal of being unplugged – and dreading it, simultaneously; flights that long are generally exhausting, especially overnight ones. There’s something about this image that speaks to my sense of impending isolation about the whole thing.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Cheeky monkey! A wild grey langur monkey gestures at the camera from the bonnet of a car at a rest stop on a road near Leela, in India. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

That face? That’s how I feel today. Lots to do, and then some, before traveling tomorrow.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Pakistani boys run after a truck that was distributing election flags during a political rally in Lahore on the last day that election campaigns. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

I love this image; there’s something so kinetic about it. There’s a story here, you know immediately. Everything is in motion, everything is happening.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

A baby turtle is released into the exhibit tank at Melbourne Zoo. Reptile keepers have achieved a significant Australian first, the breeding of the critically endangered Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle, generally known as Golden Coin Turtles. These turtles are native to creeks in rainforests throughout South-east Asia and southern China. Photograph: David Caird/Rex Features

What makes this image is the colors, right? The way that the turtle seems to glow atop the kid’s head, and the beautiful turquoise rippled above even that. This is a beautiful picture.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

In Indonesia a British-made BAe 146 cargo plane caught fire while being unloaded on the tarmac at the airport in Wamena, Papua province. An official said that the plane caught fire after a drum of oil fell from the aircraft and somehow sparked the fire. Photograph: AP

As I said before: I am apparently unusually drawn to images of disaster.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Burned cars are pictured in a highway in Ecatepec near Mexico City. A gas tanker exploded killing at least 18 people and damaging several homes and cars. Photograph: Victor Rojas/AFP/Getty Images

Look at the colors. Look at the colors.

From the Observer’s Photo Blog:

Smoke races through the canyons in the mountain areas of Ventura County, California. The fierce, wind-whipped wildfire threatened several thousand homes. Photograph: Gene Blevins/Reuters

Quite why so many of the pictures I choose for this are of disasters, I’m not quite sure…

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Images from a wind-driven wildfire that has been raging along the California coast north of Los Angeles and has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes. Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/ Reuters

It’s always a little disturbing when real world, un-doctored photographs look like something from an over-the-top apocalyptic summer blockbuster movie.

From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:

Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. The 16.5-metre-high inflatable sculpture will be shown at the Ocean terminal for a month. Photograph: Bobby Yip/ Reuters

Clearly, the only sensible response is this: