Being an internet refuge for Graeme McMillan
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Police close the M1-M7 motorway outside Budapest this morning, as heavy snow hit Hungary. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
It’s weird; once it hits mid-March, there’s part of my head that’s just “Well, it’s far too late for that kind of weather.” Snow? This late in the year? That’s just wrong, for some reason; snow belongs to December and January, and maybe February if the weather envelope gets a little pushed. Otherwise, I just get suspicious and concerned.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Ross Murray at the grave of a medieval knight that has been discovered under an old city car park in Edinburgh. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
Strangest episode of Bones yet.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Sparks fly as a man kicks a fire during the Perang Api ritual ahead of Nyepi Day in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Photograph: Reuters
This just looks amazing. This is what the Flash should look like, always.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Horses from Willie Mullins’ stable at Cheltenham racecourse. The 2013 Cheltenham Festival starts on Tuesday. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA
And so we return and begin again. Last weekend ended with an incredible, overwhelming sickness that slid into the weekend, leaving today feel like both a fresh start and a desperate attempt to catch up. This foreboding beautiful image seems an appropriate one, in that sense.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Why the long face? A Bloodhound during the first day of Crufts Dog Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA
I am horrendously sick today. This dog looks how I feel – Well, maybe a little more alive, really.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Lava erupts at the New Sud-Est crater of Mount Etna, near Catania, in Sicily. It is the volcano’s seventh eruption of 2013 and it did not pose any threats to the nearby airport and inhabited areas. Photograph: Antonio Zangh/Demotix/Corbis
You know me; I love seeing volcano eruptions.
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The Naples museum park on fire early this morning. Four buildings were damaged by the fire complex which includes business incubation offices and the science museum. Photograph: Controluce/AFP/Getty Images
This looks so amazingly dramatic, the way the sky has turned red. Destruction as beauty.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Batman to the rescue: a man dressed as the caped crusader walked into Trafalgar House police station in Bradford and handed over a wanted man. The suspect had been sought by police in connection with a number of alleged offences and a member of the public dressed in a full Batman outfit took him to the station on 25 February. Photograph: West Yorkshire Police/PA
Sometimes, real life likes to offer something like this up to just to check that you’re paying attention.
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
If dogs ruled the world. Dachshunds sit in their positions for the performance installation Dachshund UN, where the dogs were used to mimic a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Toronto. Australian artist Bennett Miller created the show to question humanity’s potential for creating a universal justice system. Photograph: Michelle Siu/AP
Oh, man. Look at Sengal. Who’sa cutest widdel political figures? Who is? You are! Yes you are!
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Little gymnasts stretch themselves on wooden bars during an exercise session in the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province in China. They have been in professional sports training since the age of two and their daily schedule involves four hours of athletic training a day. Photograph: William Hong/Reuters
Part of me wanted to make a “Look at them torturing those poor children!” joke, but the truth of the matter is, this is weirdly nostalgic for me; I remember that my own school had a gym with those bars lining the walls, and that we’d have to climb up and down them all the time, with teachers searching desperately for “exercises” that little six year olds could actually manage to do without complaint.