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Fire Waterfall at Yosemite Fire Waterfall at Yosemite

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This park was gazetted as a national park in 1890. It is world famous for its rugged terrain, waterfall and century-old pine trees. It covers 1200 sq km and the "fire" waterfall of El Capitan is one of the most spectacular of all scenery.

The spectacular view of the waterfall is created by the reflection of sunlight hitting the falling water at a specific angle. This rare sight can only be seen at a 2-week period towards the end of Feburary. To photograph this rare event, photographers would often have to wait and endure years of patience in order to capture them. The reason is because its appearance depend on a few natural phenomenons occuring at the same time and luck.

1st, Is the formation of the waterfall - The water is formed by the melting of snow and ice at the top of the mountain. It melts between the month of December and January and by the end of February there might not have much snow left to melt.

2nd, is the specific angle of the sunray hitting the falling water - The sun's position must be exactly at a particular spot in the sky. This occur only in the month of February and at the short hours of dusk. If it is a day full of clouds or something blocking the sun, you can only take pictures of your own sorry faces on the waterfall. It coincides with the fact that the weather in the National Park at that time of the year is often volatile and unpredictable. It compounds to the difficulty of getting these pictures.

Someone did !!! And we all get to see it !!!

Unique and Creative Bookshelves

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:08:00 -0700

The most unusual modern bookshelves and creative shelf designs that will store your favourite books in style.

Circular Walking Bookshelf
Cow Shaped Bookcase
Hidden Bookshelf
Corner Tree Bookshelf
Mario Bookshelf
Angle Shelf
Hanging Bookshelf
Portable Bookshelf
Pac-Man Bookcase
Console Bookshelf

wOnderful Fields Fotografy

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Nail's Life (creativity)

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Snaps Of Sparrow's

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Cute Animals Love

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Phenomenal Wonders Of The Natural World WebEcoist and Environmental Oddities

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:17:00 -0700

Sailing Stones
The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades.

Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds
have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time.

Some scientists have proposed
that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements.

However, this theory does not explain evidence of
different rocks starting side by side
and moving at different rates and in disparate directions.

Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory
as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour
would be needed to move some of the stones.

Columnar Basalt
When a thick lava flow cools, it contracts vertically
but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity
- in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable hexagonal extrusions
that almost appear to be made by man.

One of the most famous such examples is
the Giant's Causeway on the coast of Ireland (shown above),
though the largest and most widely recognized
would be Devil's Tower in Wyoming.

Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways
when eruptions are exposed to air or water.

Blue Holes
Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation
that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit
when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters.

They can be hundreds of feet deep
and while divers are able to explore some of them
they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life
due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty.

Some blue holes, however, contain
ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

Red Tides
Red tides are also known as algal blooms
- sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae
that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color.

While some of these can be relatively harmless,
others can be harbingers of deadly toxins
that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals.

In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides
though no human exposure are known to have been fatal.

While they can be fatal,
the constituent phytoplankton in ride tides are not harmful in small numbers.

Ice Circles
While many see these apparently perfect ice circles
as worthy of conspiracy theorizing,
scientists generally accept that they are formed
by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion.

As a result of this rotation,
other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice
until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle.

Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet
and can also at times be found
in clusters and groups of different sizes as shown above.

Mammatus Clouds
True to their ominous appearance,
mammatus clouds are often harbingers
of a coming storm or other extreme weather system.

Typically composed primarily of ice,
they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction
and individual formations can remain visibly static
for ten to fifteen minutes at a time.

While they may appear foreboding
they are merely the messengers
- appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

Sinkholes are one of the world's scariest natural phenomena.

Over time, water erodes the soil under the planet's surface
until in some cases, quite suddenly,
the land above gives way and collapses into the earth.

Many sinkholes occur naturally
while others are the result of human intervention.

Displacing groundwater can open cavities
while broken pipes can erode otherwise stable subterranean sediments.

Urban sinkholes, up to hundreds of feet deep
have formed and consumed parts of city blocks, sidewalks and even entire buildings.

Penitentes
Named after peak-hooded New Mexican monks (lower right above),
penitentes are dazzling naturally-forming ice blades
that stick up at sharp angles toward the sun.

Rarely found except at high altitudes,
they can grow up taller than a human and form in vast fields.

As ice melts in particular patterns,
'valleys' formed by initial melts leave 'mountains' in their wake.

Strangely, these formations ultimately slow the melting process
as the peaks cast shadows on the deeper surfaces below
and allow for winds to blow over the peaks, cooling them.

Lenticular Clouds

Ever wonder the truth about UFOs?

Avoided by traditional pilots but loved by sailplane aviators,
lenticular clouds are masses of cloud
with strong internal uplift that can drive a motorless flyer to high elevations.

Their shape is quite often mistaken
for a mysterious flying object or the artificial cover for one.

Generally, lenticular clouds are formed
as wind speeds up while moving around a large land object such as a mountain.

Light Pillars
Light pillars appear as eerily upright luminous columns in the sky,
beacons cast into the air above without an apparent source..

These are visible when light reflects just right off of ice crystals
from either the sun (as in the two top images above)
or from artificial ground sources such as street or park lights.

Despite their appearance as near-solid columns of light,
the effect is entirely created by our own relative viewpoint.

Sundogs

Like light pillars, sundogs are the product of light passing through crystals.

The particular shape and orientation of the crystals
can have a drastic visual impact for the viewer,
producing a longer tail and changing the range of colors one sees.

The relative height of the sun in the sky
shifts the distance the sundogs appear to be on either side of the sun.

Varying climactic conditions on other planets in our solar system
produce halos with up to four sundogs from those planets' perspectives.

Sundogs have been speculated about and discussed since ancient times
and written records describing the various attributes of our sun
date back the Egyptians and Greeks.

Fire Whirls

Fire whirls (also known as fire devils or tornadoes)
appear in or around raging fires
when the right combination of climactic conditions is present.

Fire whirls can be spawned by other natural events
such as earthquakes and thunderstorms,
and can be incredibly dangerous,
in some cases spinning well out of the zone of a fire itself
to cause devastation and death in a radius not even reached by heat or flame.

Fire whirls have been known to be nearly a mile high,
have wind speeds of over 100 miles per hour
and to last for 20 or more minutes.
Orange Moons

This last phenomena is something most people have seen before
- beautiful orange moon hanging low in the sky.

But what causes this phenomena
- and, for that matter, does the moon have a color at all?

When the moon appears lower on the horizon,
rays of light bouncing off it
have to pass through a great deal more of our atmosphere
which slowly strips away everything but yellows, oranges and reds.

The bottommost image above is true to the hues of the moon
but has enhanced colors to more clearly show the differences in shade
that illustrate the mixed topography and minerology
that tell the story of the moon's surface.

Looking at the colors in combination with the craters
one can start to trace the history of impacts
and consequent material movements across the face of our mysterious moon.

FINGER ART

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:07:00 -0700

Nice Doll Pics

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:59:00 -0700

10 Geological Wonders..

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:53:00 -0700

Chocolate Hills (Philippines)

Composed of around 1,268 perfectly cone-shaped hills of about the same size spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometres (20 sq mi), this highly unusual geological formation, called Chocolate Hills, is located in Bohol, Philippines. There are a number of hypotheses regarding the formation of the hills. These include simple limestone weathering, sub-oceanic volcanism, the uplift of the seafloor and a more recent theory which maintains that as an ancient active volcano self-destructed, it spewed huge blocks of stone which were then covered with limestone and later thrust forth from the ocean bed.

Wave Rock (Australia)

The Wave Rock is a natural rock formation located in western Australia. It derives its name from the fact that it is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The total outcrop covers several hectares; the "wave" part of the rock is about 15 meters high and approximately 110 meters long. One aspect of Wave Rock rarely shown on photographs is the retaining wall about halfway up the rock. This follows the contours and allows rainwater to be collected in a dam. It was constructed in 1951 by the Public Works Department, and such walls are common on many similar rocks in the wheatbelt.

Hell Gate (Uzbekistan)

Called by locals The Door to Hell, this place in Uzbekistan is situated near the small town of Darvaz. When geologists were drilling for gas, 35 years ago, they suddenly found an underground cavern that was so big, all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas, so they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it has been burning. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite

Giants Causeway (Ireland)

An area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the Giants Causeway is a result of an ancient volcanic eruption. Located on the north-east coast of Northern Ireland, most of its columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 meters (36 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 meters thick in places. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.

Blue Lake Cave (Brazil)

Mato Grosso do Sul region in Brazil (and especially the quiet town of Bonito) boasts many marvelous underground lakes: Gruta do Lago Azul, Gruta do Mimoso, Aquário Natural. The world famous "Gruta do Lago Azul” (Blue Lake Cave) is a natural monument whose interior is formed by stalactites, stalagmites and a huge and wonderful blue lake. The beauty of the lake is something impressive. The Blue Lake Cave has a big variety of geological formation but impresses mainly for the deep blue colored water of its inside lake.

Eye of the Sahara (Mauritania)

This spectacular landform in Mauritania in the southwestern part of the Sahara desert is so huge with a diameter of 30 miles that it is visible from space. Called Richat Structure --or the Eye of the Sahara-- the The formation was originally thought to be caused by a meteorite impact but now geologists believe it is a product of uplift and erosion. The cause of its circular shape is still a mystery.

Crystal Cave of the Giants (Mexico)

Found deep inside a mine in southern Chihuahua Mexico, these crystals were formed in a natural cave totally enclosed in bedrock. A geode full of spectacular crystals as tall as pine trees, and in some cases greater in circumference, they are a translucent gold and silver in color and come in many incredible forms and shapes. The Crystal Cave of the Giants was discovered within the same limestone body that hosts the silver-zinc- lead ore bodies exploited by the mine and it was probably dissolved by the same hydrothermal fluids that deposited the metals with the gypsum being crystallized during the waning stages of mineralization.

Great Blue Hole (Belize)

Part of the Lighthouse Reef System, The Great Blue Hole lies approximately 60 miles off the mainland out of Belize City. A large, almost perfectly circular hole approximately one quarter of a mile (0.4 km) across, it’s one of the most astounding dive sites to be found anywhere on earth. Inside this hole, the water is 480 feet (145 m) deep and it is the depth of water which gives the deep blue color that causes such structures throughout the world to be known as "blue holes."

Antelope Canyon (Arizona - USA)

The most visited and photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest, the Antelope Canyon is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. It includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon --or “The Crack”-- and Lower Antelope Canyon --or “The Corkscrew.”

The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdestwazi, or "spiral rock arches." Both are located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.

The Wave (between Arizona and Utah - USA)

A red-rock stunner on the border of Arizona and Utah, The Wave is made of 190-million- year-old sand dunes that have turned to rock. This little-known formation is accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and highly regulated.

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:41:00 -0700

Chocolate Hills (Philippines)

Wave Rock (Australia)

Hell Gate (Uzbekistan)

Giants Causeway (Ireland)

Blue Lake Cave (Brazil)

Eye of the Sahara (Mauritania)

Crystal Cave of the Giants (Mexico)

Great Blue Hole (Belize)

Antelope Canyon (Arizona - USA)

The Wave (between Arizona and Utah - USA)

Wonderful World Cup 2010 Campaign

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:29:00 -0700

Amazing World Cup Art

All 32 nations that will take part in the World Cup have become the main characters of the new ESPN’s promotional campaign. Each of the 32 murals pays homage to a foreign soccer star. This art is unusual, but the drawings are amazing! Enjoy!

Amazing World Cup Art

cute dolly

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:13:00 -0700

Stunning Examples Of Artwork With Beautiful Splatter Effects

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:53:00 -0700

Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations

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Epic Digital Paintings and Illustrations

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:53:00 -0700

Fantasy Art

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Sat, 8 May 2010 09:45:00 -0700

Excellant Ads for No Smoking!

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Gadget Cakes

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Animals Little Ones with Mother

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World's Most Strange Buildings

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10 Most Expensive Watches

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Thu, 6 May 2010 17:33:00 -0700

Let's be realistic here, the economy is in the crapper and your 401k looks about as arousing as you do after a cold shower. What's a Burgundy drinking, stache rocking, web surfing Internet denizen like you to do? Diversify your skill set by ogling watches you'll never be able to afford and learning what makes them tick.

Most of these watches are more complicated than college calculus and have more history than you could learn in a lifetime. You might even need an engineering degree and an instructional tome to figure out how they work. Regardless, all these watches (for one reason or another) are ridiculously cool and absurdly expensive. Sell the Ferrari, liquidate the stocks, and pick up one of these bad-ass timekeeping devices.

The Patek Caliber 89 - $5,120,000

Buying this watch would require selling 3.5 Bugatti Veyrons, which happens to be 70% of the total number they sold in 2005. The closest most of us will ever get to a Veyron is drooling over it on Top Gear. Itâ€™s all about perspective here people. Three Veyrons. Say it out loud â€“ Three. Veyrons. So what makes this watch worth $5.12mil? For starters, it is the most complicated watch on the planet with 33 complications. Essentially, it requires a degree in mechanical engineering to understand, but suffice it to say it has everything but the kitchen sink. It also took more time to design than you spent in college (including those extra years â€œstudyingâ€� chemistry).

Split Seconds Patek Philippe Reference 1436 By Tiffany & Co. $214,000

Itâ€™s emblazoned with the Tiffany & Co. name, so you know itâ€™s gonna be expensive. Compared to the rest of the watches on this list though, itâ€™s actually pretty cheap. Well, you know, if two-hundred grand can ever be considered cheap. Youâ€™re getting the Patek and the Tiffany names, what else could you want? The ability to time two events that start simultaneously but end at different times â€“ you didnâ€™t think those fancy blue hands were just for show did you?

Patek Philippe Ref 5016P $762,000

Rounding out the Patek trinity is the Ref 5016P (The P stands for platinum, duh). This watch is the second most complicated wristwatch (the first one was a pocket watch so it doesnâ€™t count) that Patek has produced. The problem with watches of this caliber the need for adjustments, but Patek has an app for that. If you keep this moon-phase, perpetual calendar, retrograde behemoth running continuously it wonâ€™t need adjusting until 2100. Thatâ€™s something your childrenâ€™s childrenâ€™s children will most certainly appreciate.

The Breguet Marie Antoinette $XX,000,000

This watch was originally designed by Breguet himself and has more pieces (823) than an iPhone. Itâ€™s self winding, has a minute repeater, perpetual calendar, equation of time, jumping hour, power reserve indicator, and a bimetallic thermometer â€“ everything but MMS messaging. It took forty-four years for the original to be constructed and Breguet and Marie Antoinette both died before it was completed. Ultimately, the original watch disappeared, never to be seen again. When Swatch acquired Breguet, an Indiana Jones style quest for the watch began. When they came up short they reproduced the watch using only the images of the original. Breguet has received offers in the eight digit range, but still refuse to sell.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon 1 $400,000

This watch is clearly complicated, but it has a feature some of the others donâ€™t, a tourbillon. Whatâ€™s a tourbillon? A wrist-mounted anti-gravity device. Tourbillons (in the most basic terms) prevent gravity from adversely affecting accuracy. Normal tourbillons only rock one-axis anti-gravity, this tourbillon rocks two. No word yet on when the third and fourth axis will be integrated.

Rolex Submariner $234,000

At some point in time, everyone has held, worn, or owned a Rolex Submariner. This one is special because it was held, worn, and owned by the one and only Steve McQueen. Thatâ€™s right, the â€œKing of Coolâ€� owned this particular submersible, self-winding, stainless steel oyster bracelet Rolex. Youâ€™re getting time, Rolex, and bona fide badassery.

Vacheron Tour de lIle $1,250,000

Vacheron is the oldest watch manufacturer still in existence since its inception in 1755. 250+ years of history allows them to make watches that eclipse most others. The Tour de lâ€™Ile has tourbillon, two faces, and more complications and parts than even the Breguet Marie Antoinette (hopefully without the beheading) making it the most complicated serial wrist watch ever made. Itâ€™s worth JUST shy of a Veyronâ€¦ unless you buy used.

AP Royal Oak Grande Complication $560,000

Audemars Piquet (thatâ€™s where the AP comes from obviously) does it again with the Royal Oak Grande Complication. The Grande Complication is another watch that has a perpetual calendar accurate until long after you will no longer be alive. It has a lot of the same complications as the other watches (minute repeater, split seconds chronograph, aforementioned perpetual calendar) but presents them in a way that doesnâ€™t require a thousand page instruction manual just to read. Real men donâ€™t use instruction manuals.

Richard Mille Tourbillon $525,000

Look at it. It looks like a Rube Goldberg machine had sex with the Gugenheim and the offspring was skeletonized. Quite a few of these watches have modern elements, but none of them have the modern design that this watch does. Made of aluminum, titanium, and awesome it would be the perfect compliment for the new clear hood you just put on the Ferrari.

Ulysse Nardin Triplejack Minute Repeater $340,000

It may be crazy, but this watch seems like holds some deep, dark, historical secret that only Nicolas Cage can uncover. But that may just be the three Jacks â€A" hammering the bells to separate the quarters from the minutes.â€� Sure, itâ€™s more expensive than a Ferrari, but something about this watch just seems a lot less complicated. Since when did you just want to tell time with your watch?

This is the point in the movie after the credits roll where you get that wicked cameo that's sole purpose is to say thanks to an under appreciated celebrity. In this case, the star is none other than Ben Clymer of

In case you havenâ€™t heard of Hodinkee (for shame!), it's a daily collection of the most interesting and rare watches around the world. Think Cool Material specifically geared towards vintage and interesting time pieces.

Village in Afghanistan - Very Interesting!

noreply@blogger.com (pavan kumar) — Thu, 6 May 2010 17:23:00 -0700

Customized scOoters

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