Category Archives: Photography

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Rioting broke out in Rio de Janeiro during protests against rising public transport fares (and for  better public services and working conditions) led by the country’s largest trade union.

A cameraman, Santiago Andrade from Brazilian station Band TV was hit by what was thought to have been a tear gas canister or homemade explosive. He was taken in a critical condition to hospital where he has undergone emergency surgery.

Brazil: Rio protest over transport fare rise ends in violence (BBC)

Via Kety Shapazian

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Garda Traffic getting their Bichon.

Wait a minute.

Is this a dog ‘known to Gardaí’?

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For the first time in five years, the waters of lake Superior in Northwest Wisconsin have frozen solid enough to allow access to the ice caves at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

With an estimated 1000 people a day visiting, the caves could remain accessible for another month.

(Pix: Kelly Marquardt and Andy Rathbun)

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Two months after NYC blogger Jessica Shyba started an Instagram feed featuring pictures of her son Theo’s naps with his puppy Beau, the daily routine continues, if anything, more comfortably since Beau has doubled in size.

Previously: Naps With My Pup

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Dutch physicist and artist Arie Van’t Riet shoots monochrome x-rays of plants and animals, digitises them and adds colour in Photoshop to create these slightly morbid, strangely pleasing images.

No animals were harmed by radiation, as most were already dead to begin with.

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