Kayaker Being Trailed by a Great White Shark!
This photo is rather old (2006) but still interesting to look at and no it is not fake :
This photograph by Thomas P. Peschak is genuine and was taken from a September 2005 Africa Geographic article titled "Shark Detectives," about researchers studying Great White sharks off the coast of South Africa. As the article described the circumstances under which this picture was snapped:
Green Grass Sprouts and an Orange Flower
My shots of our Norooz Grass Sprouts and an orange flower whose English name I've forgotten.
Poor Apricot Tree
I took this photo last year of an apricot tree in our complex yard. It was really beautiful and eye catching with all those pink blossoms. But the people planting it seemingly didn't care for its beauty but only its fruit! It didn't bring any fruit at all and so was condemned to have all its branches cut off! This year it's standing there with only one extending-to-the right branch and no blossoms at all and I dare say it's no longer a beautiful tree but a sad one to look at, or at least I feel that way :(
Late Winter Blossoms
Believe me or not, I really don't know what type of tree this is as I had planted some different fruit seeds including apple, peach, cherry, plum some years ago and have no faintest idea which on of them had germinated and grown to this little tree blossoming ^.^
And it was so hot in the late winter that all its buds bloomed once! and soon they all fell off and were replaced with new green leaves even before the Spring comes! And then Spring came and so did the cold weather and we suddenly had a snow storm and a dark cloudy sky ever after.
Iran Creates World's Largest Sand Carpet on the Shores of Persian Gulf
Iranian artists have created the world's largest sand carpet from the colorful sand found on the country's southern island of Hormuz.
Some 25 visual artists used 70 types of colorful sand to create the 'Persian Gulf' sand carpet, which is on display from Dec. 9 to 17, 2008.
The 12000-square-meter carpet which is unique in magnitude, pattern and color is named after the beautiful "Persian Gulf". The other World's large sand carpet was a 900-square-meter one created on the Canary Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Beautiful.
Images courtesy of Fars News Agency and ISNA.
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I'm Back!
Wow! I haven't updated this blog for such a loooooooooooooong time! The reason, I was busy test photographing with my new camera, a black Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 Super Zoomer (15x) given to me as a gift (for being such a good girl :p
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My other funny problem with the camera is its auto focus during zooming in, I mean when you have zoomed in a subject to a closer focal point (or whatever its name is!) which I can't understand why the camera cannot auto focus correctly and gives you a blurry result instead :( Maybe I am doing something wrong but cannot figure out what it is.
But, and it's a big but, the DSC-H50 is a great camera, it takes great photos with superb vivid colors and I, as an amateur, am quite satisfied with its results. Especially I like its 15x zoom, giving me the ability to take cool photos of my beloved moon finally (see below) ^.^
You will see more of my photos taken with this camera later on. Just hope that you would also enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed taking them (^-^)
Ayatollah Calls the Flag Bearing by an Iranian Lady Anti Islamic!! o_O
The Flag Bearer of the Iranian Olympic Caravan at Beijing 2008
Clerics say Female Flag-bearer at Olympics "Constitutes an Obstacle for the Appearance of Imam Mahdi and disgraces Islam"
Tehran, 8 August (AKI) - Iranian religious figures have criticised that Olympic female rower Homa Hosseini was chosen as the flag bearer of Iran, calling the move a 'heresy'.
"To make a woman march with the flag of the Islamic Republic in Beijing, is pure heresy and shows total disobedience of the laws mandated by our spiritual guides," said Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, leader of Friday prayers in Iran's holy city of Mashhad.
Hosseini, 19, grew up in Iran's Kermanshah province in western Iran, she is one of three Iranian female competitors at the Olympic Games and Iran's first ever female rower. The other two female competitors are Najmeh Abtin (archery) and Sara Khoshjamal (Tae Kwon Do).
"To make this woman march means to openly declare war to our religious values. Whoever is responsible for this unforgivable act, he should know that this gesture constitutes an obstacle for the 'appearance' of Mahdi," said Elmalhoda.
He was referring to the mainly Shi'a Islam belief that Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi (aka Imam Zaman) will appear to fight a final apocalyptic battle over the forces of evil.
Followers believe he was born in the year 868 and has been in hiding ever since awaiting a decision from god to reappear.
sources: [1], [2], [3]
on 08/08/08 @ 08:08:08 pm
started the Beijing Summer Olympics. The opening ceremony was magnificent and beautiful (I watched it on a satellite channel as it was heavily censored on our Islamic TV >:-(
The following images are collected from different news sites or forums but their credits go to Getty Images and AP.
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Sunrising Tehran
I like clouds, I like rising (and setting) sun and I love rare-in-polluted-Tehran blue skies! So one early morning around 6.40, I captured all these using my mobile phone camera (a good old faithful and great companion Sony Ericsson K800i ;) Hope you'll enjoy viewing it as much i did ^_^
Lavender Farm
I received this image as a part of a forwarded email so I sadly neither know its photographer nor do I know the place where this photo is taken. But it is so beautiful, do't you think ;)
*sigh* wish people were as beautiful as mother nature too
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Japanese Bento Art
Bentō (弁当 or べんとう) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cookedvegetables as a side dish though it can be very elaborately arranged. Contests are often held where homemakers can compete for the most aesthetically pleasing arrangements. The food is often decorated to look like people, animals, or characters and items such as flowers and plants. This style of elaborate bento is called Kyaraben. [wikipedia].
I wonder how can one eat these masterpieces as they are not mere food, but real works of art :-o
