In Focus

[Count Bobulescu]

In celebration of Earth Day yesterday 39 aerial photos of you know what.


http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-above/100283/

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April is autism awareness month. 24 tasteful photos on the subject.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...h-2012/100284/

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43 portraits of Greece in Crisis. #21 is reminiscent of African famine conditions
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...crisis/100285/

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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...n-2012/100291/

Supermoon 2012On Saturday, skywatchers around the world were treated to views of the so-called "supermoon," the largest full moon of the year. On May 6, the moon approached within 357,000 km (222,000 mi) of Earth, in what is scientifically known as a perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system (perigee: closest point of an elliptical orbit; syzygy: straight line made of three bodies in a gravitational system). Photographers across the globe set out to capture the event, and collected here are 24 of the most super images of this year's supermoon. [24 photos

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Missed this one while traveling. Forty May Day photos from around the world.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-world/100289/

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Some galleries that I missed recently. 30-50 photos each.

Giant Marionettes from France.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...e-luxe/100293/

Lighting the Olympic Flame.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-flame/100294/

The last horse drive in Montana.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-drive/100295/

The world 50 years ago.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...n-1962/100296/

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Can you just change the title of this thread to "Free advertising for Atlantic Magazine" and then we can avoid wasting our time clicking on it.

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37 Photos from North Korea April 2012. More to come soon.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...e-year/100276/

The North Korean female traffic co-ordinator, wasn't half bad!!!

[Count Bobulescu]

Can you just change the title of this thread to "Free advertising for Atlantic Magazine" and then we can avoid wasting our time clicking on it.

I guess you didn’t get beyond the first sentence of the OP. Read it and you’ll get your answer. Then think about all the time you wasted clicking here, and all the time you could have saved if you had just read beyond the first sentence. You really are traveling in the slow lane today.

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the north korean female traffic co-ordinator, wasn't half bad!!!

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Not sure what happened to my 3 grins???

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Mexico’s Drug War

Since Mexico's President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders. Just last weekend, 49 decapitated bodies were reportedly discovered on a highway in northern Mexico. The New York Times reports on an increasing numbness and apathy among Mexicans after years of worsening carnage, about which they've been able to do virtually nothing. Gathered here is a collection of recent photographs from Mexico's drug war and the people so horribly affected by it. [44 photos]

Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full. There are many dead bodies; the photographs are graphic and stark. This is the reality of the situation in Mexico right now.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-years/100299/

Scenes from Brazil

Brazil, a growing, multicultural nation of nearly 200 million people, is preparing to host two huge international events: the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Brazilians face numerous challenges, building many new structures and the infrastructure to support them, while attending to existing challenges and "cleaning up" before the world comes to visit. Brazil is also huge (the largest country in the southern hemisphere), and its ecological diversity ranges from dense urban spaces to forested mountains, vast plains to sparkling beaches. It's impossible to sum up a country in a single photo essay, so take this as just a sample of recent scenes from around Brazil. [45 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...brazil/100300/

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Yesterday, the Moon passed between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow from China to North America. This was an annular eclipse, where the Moon's apparent diameter is slightly smaller than the Sun's, blocking all but a ring of sunlight. Skywatchers brought out special glasses, welder's masks, and telescopes to safely view this relatively rare event. Some were lucky enough to look down and see overlapping pinhole projections of the eclipse as the sunlight streamed through the leaves of nearby trees. Gathered here, for those who weren't able to see it in person, is a group of images of yesterday's annular eclipse. [26 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...clipse/100301/

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In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. After covering the U.S. Civil War, (many of his photos appear in this earlier series), O'Sullivan joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to help document the new frontiers in the American West. The teams were composed of soldiers, scientists, artists, and photographers, and tasked with discovering the best ways to take advantage of the region's untapped natural resources. O'Sullivan brought an amazing eye and work ethic, composing photographs that evoked the vastness of the West. He also documented the Native American population as well as the pioneers who were already altering the landscape. Above all, O'Sullivan captured -- for the first time on film -- the natural beauty of the American West in a way that would later influence Ansel Adams and thousands more photographers to come. [34 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...rs-ago/100304/

Quiz time again - in honor of yesterday's National Geographic Bee, here is another Google Earth puzzle -- part 3 in a series (part 2 here), in which we challenge you to figure out where in the world each of the images below was taken. Note that north is not always up in these pictures. Also, be assured that, apart from a bit of contrast, these images are unaltered; they are exactly what Google and its mapping partners provide. So have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck! [18 images]


http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...puzzle/100305/

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The Unreal World

Our modern world is full of simulations, from synthesized human voices to realistic security drills, representational art to CGI-filled blockbuster movies. Gathered below is a collection images of things that are real, but not quite real -- mockups, practice drills, lifelike works of art, simulators, puppets, models, prototypes, automatons, and more. [38 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-world/100309/

Olympics 2012

Today's entry comes in the form of two separate portrait series relating to the upcoming London 2012 Summer Olympics. In Part II, below, I've collected photographs of locals in the host country. The Londoners pictured here were stopped in the streets and asked how they felt about having their city host the Olympics. Be sure to also see Part I: American Athletes, a look at members of the U.S. Olympic team. [23 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...doners/100308/


The Golden Gate Bridge.

Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of the opening of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Before 1937, the city's growth was hampered by a reliance on ferry traffic. The 8,981 ft (2,737 m) suspension bridge changed that, creating a link between San Francisco to Marin County. Its construction was completed under budget, but at the cost of 11 workers' lives. Collected here are images from the building of this iconic bridge, as well as scenes from its 75 years of service and from Sunday's celebration. [41 photos]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...rns-75/100306/

[eamo]

These are great. Thanks for posting. You could get lost for hours going through them.
Post 21, 4th link, photo 10. "the world 50 years ago" . Two women medical students listen to their professor, also a woman. All un-shrouded, and not afraid to be photographed.
50 years of progress how are ya.