Spartan2470
Spartan2470 t1_jeeg67j wrote
Here is a much higher quality and much less cropped version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:
> Parents march in support of LGBTQ rights at Gay Pride parade in Greenwich Village, New York City, US, 30th June 1974; (right) is American lawyer Dick Ashworth marching with a sign that reads 'I'm Proud of My Gay Son'. He later became one of the founding members of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)
Spartan2470 t1_jeauvzv wrote
Looks like soylent green's back on the menu, boys!
Spartan2470 t1_je0t2mg wrote
Here are higher quality versions of these images. Credit to the photographer, Elias Chasiotis, who took this on December 26, 2019 in Al Wakrah, Qatar.
According to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day:
> Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had a layer of unusually warm air over the sea which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etruscan vase effect. The featured picture was captured two mornings ago from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire.
Spartan2470 t1_jdztlu0 wrote
Reply to a meteor and Mount Fuji by notjorx
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Credit to the photographer/digital editor, Hisanori Manabe (aka manabe4724 on IG and H.manabe/Hmanabe2 on Twitter).
> @Hmanabe2
> awesome sight
> 4:05 AM · Jan 29, 2022
Spartan2470 t1_jcbaixn wrote
Reply to comment by Freank in Happiness is finding a puddle big enough for all of your mates :) by Shortery
Sorry to hijack your comment, but OP (Shortery) appears to be a karma-farming bot that can only copy and paste other people's stuff. The account was born on December 19, 2021, woke up two days ago, and has the following four activities:
Here it copied/pasted /u/stealing1's submission/title from here. It isn't even rehosted.
Its comment before this is a copy/paste of /u/HAL__Over__9000's previous top comment.
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Spartan2470 t1_jadmicw wrote
Here is a much higher quality version of this image. Credit to the photographer, Conor Moore. He used to have a website. When he did, he provided the following caption:
> My favorite and most successful shot to date, the SS City of Adelaide is an exposed wreck of Cockle Bay on Magnetic Island. The wreck was gutted by fire and ran aground on the island in 1916.
> When shooting the SS City of Adelaide, I couldn't believe the brilliance of the mangroves which had taken over the wreck. I like to think that this shot is a representation of how nature can recover from human impact. Creating new ecosystems through wreckage of ships is truly a beautiful sight.
Here it is on Google Maps.
Spartan2470 t1_ja7seq6 wrote
Reply to Lechon Burger by keysinunez
The source of this image is Mate Burger on FB. Per there:
> September 22, 2021
> The LECHON BURGER is back!
> Like an eclipse, some say you shouldn't look directly at it but blink and you may miss out!
> Limited numbers daily for in-store orders at Bella Vista and Mt Druitt this week!
Spartan2470 t1_j9tns0d wrote
Reply to The very first image published of Russias invasion. A soldier jumping over a crimean toll-booth. by CustardAccurate1540
Here is the source of this image and two others of this. Per there:
> @Militarylandnet
> Crimea!!! Kalanchak outpost is under attack. Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are running away
> 9:02 PM · Feb 23, 2022
Also,
> It looks like a lot of photos/videos are being deleted. But this is from one of the now disabled Ukraine border live streams
Per /u.Panda_Player over here.
Spartan2470 t1_j6orkmi wrote
Reply to A strikingly sparse landscape. by iklegemma
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer/digital composer, Benjamin Everett.
Here his website explains:
> Benjamin Everett’s hybrid landscapes mix the traditions of photography and painting. His images are captured through extensive travel and wilderness experience, combined with scale and sculptural experimentation.
> Beginning in the field, Benjamin searches out unique locations that lend themselves to creative play. He then collects a series of detailed photographs that represent fascinations with some unique aspect of the location; light on form, texture, color or composition. Often these details are symbolic of natural forces or the synchronicity of repeated themes unique to a location. Later in the studio, these collected elements become the foundation for play and interactivity, a way to engage and re-experience a scene. The final image functions much like the landscape of memories or dreams, an abstraction where multiple moments combine, scale and time transform.
Spartan2470 t1_j6k033p wrote
Credit to /u//u/braybraywoowoo.
Also, it looks like this image has been vertically stretched.
Edit: IgnoredAegina64 appears to be a bot. The account has the following two activities:
Its comment in this thread is a copy paste of /u/freewaytrees's previous top comment.
Its comment here is a copy/paste of /u/OrangeJuiceAlibi's previous top comment.
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Spartan2470 t1_j6jjkyz wrote
Reply to Bowie in Japan looking effortlessly cool. by iklegemma
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Credit to the photographer, Masayoshi Sukita, who took this in Kyoto in 1980.
Spartan2470 t1_j6ja5pp wrote
Reply to Bowie in Japan looking effortlessly cool. by iklegemma
Spartan2470 t1_j6hxcdh wrote
Reply to 4 different blues in 1 picture by burnsalot603
Here is a much higher quality version of this image. Here is the source.
Credit to the photographer, David Burdeny, who provided the following caption:
> Mercators Projection, Antarctica, 2007
As was pointed out by /u/tonyflint here:
> **Its also a photoshop
Also, /u/LewDawg524 made this version here.
Spartan2470 t1_iye9t3y wrote
More of OP's work can be found here..
Spartan2470 t1_iyd1qok wrote
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:
> The Big Island's Mauna Loa Volcano erupts on November 28, 2022 on the Island of Hawaii. For the first time in almost 40 years, the biggest active volcano in the world erupted prompting an emergency response on the Big Island. (Photo by Andrew Richard Hara/Getty Images)
Spartan2470 t1_iycpueu wrote
Reply to A Purple Bird by SaturnSunRoof
Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Credit to the photographer, Sergiogregoriophoto on IG.
Spartan2470 t1_iy9blo3 wrote
Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. The source seems to be Paul Douglas on a Star Tribune blog. The place has done many similar signs.
Spartan2470 t1_iy8d5zj wrote
Reply to Artemis 1 at its furthest point in its moon orbit, about 268,000 miles from earth. by kjpmi
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:
> Artemis I Flight Day 13: Orion, Earth, and Moon art001e000673 (Nov. 28, 2022) On flight day 13, Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission when it was 268,563 miles away from our home planet. Orion has now traveled farther than any other spacecraft built for humans.
Spartan2470 t1_iy5uadg wrote
Reply to "Holding the Moon" by Eric Houck by Knight_TheRider
It should be noted that the photograpgher does a lot of digital editing and is honest about it. Per the IG source (i.e. a_guy_named_eric) of this image:
> Knights Ferry, California
> “Holding The Moon”
> This was done in two shots with my 100-400mm lens. 😃
> May 11, 2019
Spartan2470 t1_iy5bh1e wrote
Reply to A young girl enjoying a smoke, 1914. by mariusmariuzi
Here is the source of this image. Per there:
> Three year-old Robert Quigley smoking a cigar, Washington DC, 30th August 1928. Quigley apparently started smoking when, as a one year-old on his father's knee, he grabbed his father's pipe and tried smoking it. The boy is also said to drink alcohol and chew tobacco. (Photo by Henry Miller News Picture Service/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Spartan2470 t1_ixii937 wrote
Spartan2470 t1_ixi23ce wrote
Reply to World War Tree. by harkhinz
Here is the source of this image and several similar images. According to here:
> Alexander Ostapenko, a Soviet military history enthusiast and World War II re-enactor from Kolomna, Russia, shared some of the images on his VKontakte social media account.
> In a message to MailOnline Thursday night, Mr Ostapenko revealed that most of the photos have been taken in the area of the Neva Bridgehead, known as Nevsky Pyatachok, which was the site of one of the most crucial campaigns during the devastating Siege of Leningrad that lasted from September 1941 to May 1943.
> The Red Army lost about 260,000 servicemen while fighting to reopen land communications with the starving, decimated city, which had been cut off from the rest of the country by invading German forces.
> Some of the so-called exhibits in this outdoor military museum include a Maxim gun circa 1891; a Mannlicher Carcano rifle circa 1891, and a 75milimeter shell from a light field gun.
Spartan2470 t1_ixhn29p wrote
Reply to Those beautiful clouds! by MLAuncle
Here is a higher quality version of this image Credit to the photographer/digital editor, Eric Houck, aka a_guy_named_eric on Intagram. Per that source:
> Knights Ferry, California
> “Inferno” I called this picture “Inferno” but there isn’t a fire anywhere near! It’s just a pic of the towering thunder clouds that have been forming of the sierras lately. This is a single shot, taken at sunset. 😃😊
> June 2, 2019
Spartan2470 t1_iwh7own wrote
Reply to Ndakasi’s passing by Brent Stirton, South Africa | Winner, photojournalism 2022 by Red_Princess11
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:
> It is with heartfelt sadness that Virunga announces the death of beloved orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, who had been under the care of the Park’s Senkwekwe Center for more than a decade. On the evening of 26 September, following a prolonged illness in which her condition rapidly deteriorated, Ndakasi took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre Bauma.
> Born to the Kabirizi group in April 2007, Ndakasi was only two months old when Virunga rangers found her clinging to the lifeless body of her mother, gunned down by armed militia hours earlier. With no other family members present, rangers quickly recuperated the infant gorilla and transferred her to a rescue center in Goma, where she was first introduced to Andre. All night long, Andre held the baby close to him, keeping her tiny body tightly against his bare chest for warmth and comfort. She survived; however, the trauma of losing her family coupled with a long period of rehabilitation meant that Ndakasi was too vulnerable to return to the wild. Along with fellow orphaned gorilla Ndeze, Ndakasi was transferred to the Senkwekwe Center after its creation in 2009, where she went on to live a peaceful life with her caretakers and other orphaned mountain gorillas for over 11 years.
> Ndakasi’s life was well documented and her heartwarming personality was featured in several shows and films, including the documentary Virunga, where she can be seen consumed in laughter while being tickled by a caretaker. She also rose to internet fame in 2019, when a “selfie” of her went viral on Earth Day. The photo features Ndakasi and her partner-in-crime, Ndeze, both standing relaxed on two feet, bellies out with cheeky grins. Their playful nature was a reminder to the world of how much we see ourselves in these animals and it’s one of the reasons Andre Bauma will miss her so dearly.
> Ndakasi embodied the spirit of Virunga and her story of survival is interwoven with that of the Park’s. The massacres of her family and other gorillas in 2007 led Congolese authorities to undertake extensive institutional and security reform within the Park. This significantly strengthened the protection of Virunga’s mountain gorillas and enabled the conditions that have contributed to the on-going recovery of the species today. Ndakasi was born at a time when the global population of mountain gorillas was fragile and critically endangered. Over the course of her life, however, the species has grown by 47%–from 720 individuals in 2007 to an estimated 1,063 in 2021.
> Andre Bauman:
> > “It was a privilege to support and care for such a loving creature, especially knowing the trauma Ndakasi suffered at a very young age. One could say that she took after her mother, Nyiransekuye, whose name means “someone happy to welcome others.” It was Ndakasi’s sweet nature and intelligence that helped me to understand the connection between humans and Great Apes and why we should do everything in our power to protect them. I am proud to have called Ndakasi my friend. I loved her like a child and her cheerful personality brought a smile to my face every time I interacted with her. She will be missed by all of us at Virunga but we are forever grateful for the richness Ndakasi brought to our lives during her time at Senkwekwe.”
Spartan2470 t1_jegaf43 wrote
Reply to My boss handed me this book…😳 by JS3427
> A manual designed to introduce you to this new dimension so that you can adapt in the best possible way.
> In the following book you will find the following:
> * How to know that you have died
> Possibly any decision or thought to which you wish to return, will be very late because if you find out it is because you may already be dead, without having for sure that when you wake up in the afterlife you will be the same person, much less have memories about that absence that is occurring.
> The consciousness that arises from being dead, manifests itself through a series of signs that each deceased person goes through.
> The cessation of life, is directly associated with ceasing to stress about issues such as stopping eating or going out shopping, in addition, the bill coverage is released, at the same time that you will not have to work anymore, that is death is directly associated with an infinite time with your soul, so it is a more reflective stage.
> The first thing that a dead person must deal with is the loss of fear, to assume his condition, and leave behind the materialistic vision because all that loses value in every way, because the physical spirit disappears with the arrival of death, then it is possible to advance to the world of the living without inflicting harm or fear to others.
> A manual with a neutral, formal tone that brings value to the reader and all those who want to have a more solid idea of what it can mean to enter the dimension of the beyond.
> *This book is not based on any solid scientific fact, it is only suppositions and should not be taken literally in any way, nor should it be taken with more credibility than the simple fact of entertaining the reader.