Ao Phang Nga National Park is located in Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand. Most of the park consists of an area of the Andaman Sea studded with numerous limestone tower karst islands. The best known of […]
Month: February 2019
Mount Rainier
The Cascades in Washington, with Mount Rainier, the range’s highest mountain, standing at 4,392 m. Seen in the background (left to right) are Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount St. […]
Train wreck at Montparnasse, Paris, 1895
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for […]
View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce, 1827
View from the Window at Le Gras (french: Point de vue du Gras) is the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Captured on 20×25 cm oil-treated […]
Firefalls, Yosemite
For two weeks out of the year, the sun aligns just right with Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park where the waterfall glows like lava a few minutes before sunset.
Jellyfish under Aurora
Jellyfish under the Aurora Borealis off the coast of Northern Norway, close to Tromsø.