Jacques of all Trades

guardian:

A really spectacular image … those clouds looks rather portentous and the way the light is breaking through at the heart of the frame seems almost apocalyptic. It was taken over Victoria harbour in Hong Kong, in case you’re wondering. From picture desk live: best news images of the day

Photograph: Philippe Lorez/AFP/Getty Images

Key Bridge was being built between Georgetown and Rosslyn. Construction started in 1917 and completed in 1923. Below is a shot from Georgetown looking towards the Washington Monument, which you can see in the distance. (via Key Bridge Under Construction - Ghosts of DC)

(h/t Georgetown Metropolitan)

F Street DC, 1908, in the streetcar (and bike, and horse) era.  

h/t bilsko

(Source: ghostsofdc.org)

firsttimeuser:

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Serbia. Bass player on the road Belgrade-Kraljevo, to play at a village festival near Rudnick. Yugoslavia 1965

Art Blart

If I got back into bass-playing, I would aspire to this kind of bike riding. 

(via smokinmokes)

nprradiopictures:

© State Library and Archives of Florida/Flickr Commons

Happy Leap Day!

Leaping On Leap Day With Vintage Photos

(via npr)

the-overlook-hotel:

Behind-the-scenes photograph of director Stanley Kubrick standing on the set of the hedge maze during production of The Shining.

(photo by Murray Close. Close, who is now an internationally renowned photographer, began his career on The Shining.)

Creepy

(via juliasegal)

kari-shma:

(via More Jürgen Heckel)

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black-and-white:

Tunnel Vision II (by vulture labs)

Cool photo, reminiscent of Pan’s Labyrinth

black-and-white:

(by Ian Komac)

upanddowns:

i wish i was alive in the olden days. So many cool photographs

There were probably some offsetting factors, in terms of personal safety/health risks (not to mention segregation, etc), but I’ll go with that feeling for the sake of this bridge photo!

60sforever:

Alain Delon, 1962

wewontneedlegs:

Book’s cave by Abu Yotam on Flickr.

(via teachingliteracy)

black-and-white:

Into the Great Wide Open (by Thomas Hawk)

nationalgeographicdaily:

Street Scene, Rio de Janeiro
Photo: Rasko Ristic

The choice to make an image in black and white should be based on subject matter. This Old World scene, with its stone walls, brick street, and classic Volkswagen, is a perfect choice for a shot in black and white because we can enjoy all the textures and shapes without being distracted by color. That the photographer chose to fill more than half the frame with the street’s wonderful patterns underlines that the image is about the textural delight of this timeless place.

Let’s aim for no repeat of the Hurricane of 1938 this weekend.

blackandwtf:

1938

A wave from a hurricane strikes a seawall in New England.

Over a four-day period, the 1938 storm nicknamed “The Long Island Express” dropped an average of 11 inches of rain over a 10,000-square-mile area. Flooding inflicted major damage through Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont, causing more than $300 million in losses. In all, 600 people died. Ten of those deaths were in New York City.

(via Live Science)