The amazing beauty of a single picture telling an unbelievable story

in photography •  8 years ago  (edited)

I can look at a picture a thousand times and still see new things. I would like to share my passion with you and show some of (in my opinion) the most beautiful and intriguing photo's I have come across lately.

Let me start with an appropriate photo for the steemit community and take it from there ;) :


“Whale Whisperers.” divers observe and surround a humpback whale and her newborn calf while they swim around Roca Partida in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico


The leader of the Papo Reto collective receives an image of a 22-year-old taxi driver who was shot dead by a police officer on February 8, 2015. A group of friends from Alemão, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, formed a media collective called Papo Reto, or "straight talk". Social media allow them to report stories from their community otherwise ignored by traditional media.


A juvenile Furcifer balteatus in a recently burned landscape in Madagascar on November 16, 2014. Fires are often deadly for chameleons, because they can't move fast enough to escape them. The common practice of burning the landscape at the end of every dry season has affected many species of chameleons, both directly via fatalities due to burning and indirectly due to habitat loss. Madagascar holds more than half of the world's chameleon species; however, as a result of deforestation causing habitat loss, 50 percent of the chameleon species is endangered.


IS Fighter Treated at Kurdish Hospital. A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of Jacob, a 16-year-old Islamic State fighter, in front of a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, at a Y.P.G. hospital compound on the outskirts of Hasaka.


A massive ‘cloud tsunami’ looms over Sydney as a sunbather reads, oblivious to the approaching cloud on Bondi Beach


March Against Terrorism in Paris. Demonstration against terrorism in Paris, after a series of five attacks occurred across the Île-de-France region, beginning at the headquarters for satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo

Please share all the amazing photo's you have found yourself with me as I would love to see them, and I will keep doing the same if you guys are passioned about it like I am.

ps. less great photo's but really weird once capture my attention as well from time to time. You can find a small collection of weirdness over here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@linnie/these-are-by-far-the-weirdest-pictures-the-internet-has-to-offer

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those divers... are they minnows?

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

They are the majority of steemians: just watching how the amazing whales are passing by...

the castle is strong as it's weakest foundation

Thats amazing my friend. Nice pictures.

In case the photos weren't made by you, you should at least link to the source and mention the artists. At least for copyright-issues...

Besides that, amazing pictures!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Good tip! Will see if I can find the links and artists. thanks!

Thing is: You might get sued for copyright issues for thousands of dollars, esp. if those posts of yours make money here... Just saying and trying to prevent people from learning that the hard way. ;)