Saturday, January 25, 2025

10 Jarring News Photos That Sum Up 2017

To sum up the year, ‘The Atlantic’ put together their top 25 images that look back at what has happened these past 12 months. We’ve picked 10 that stand out.

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Winners [PICS]

From “Bubble Jetting Emperors”, to an awe-inspiring shot of Peyto Lake in Canada’s Banff National Park, the winning photographs of this year’s Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are truly astonishing, and not to be missed.

Google Street View To Reveal Great Barrier Reef [PICS]

Google Street View is pretty great! It lets me see rural villages, the National Gallery in London, post-crisis Fukushima, and your house. And soon, in collaboration with the Catlin Seaview Survey, it’ll be letting people explore Great Barrier Reef as part of the expanding ‘Seaview’ project.

Google’s Updated Streetview of Fukushima

True to the pledge it made back in July to digitally archive images of the parts of Japan affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, Google has uploaded imagery of post-earthquake Fukushima to Street View. They’ve also set up a ‘Build the Memory’ website which compares before-and-after shots of the affected towns.

Photos From Inside Facebook’s Headquarters [Gallery]

Time Magazine has published photographs from inside Facebook’s Headquarters – taken shortly after Mark Zuckerburg was made Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. The photographs reveal a bizarre work place which resembles something closer to The Office, than the fantasy land you might have thought. Sure, they’ve got free snacks and a coke machine, but […]

Amazing Photos Of Puyehue Volcano Erupting in Chile

There’s a lot of that volcano business going down at the moment. Over 3,500 people have been evacuated from the area surrounding the Chilean volcano Puyehue, active for the first time in 50 years. Volcanic ash, stirred up by the activity, has spread across the border into Argentina, shutting down businesses and airports.

More Photos Of Formerly Depressed Superhero Grandmother

You guys remember photographer Sacha Goldberger and his depressed grandmother, right? He took photos of her dressed as a superhero to cure her depression. And it seemed to work! Which is why Goldberger and Mamika have released another round of pretty rad faux-superhero photographs. There’s a superdog now, too.

New Candid Shots Of President Obama

The White House Flickr feed has been updated with a series of candid shots of President Obama over the past couple of weeks. Click through for shots of Obama and the family at the annual Easter Egg Roll, surveying tornado damage in the South, and hanging at the Oval Office- among others.