Photo: AP Photo/Andy Wong
Of all of the photos in this post from The Big Picture, this one above stands out as the most shocking to me. I just never thought that a country as closed as North Korea would allow for female soldiers.
Turn the lights on and off at The Big Picture
March 30, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
The Big Picture’s entry today is notable because it contains interactive images that show before and after shots of worldwide locations that participated in Earth Hour. It’s fun to click the images and see the lights fade slowly and back again. This is by far one of the better posts from The Big Picture.
The Big Picture covers the California wildfires
November 17, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
Photo: AP Photo/The News-Press, Michael Moriatis
The Big Picture delivers once again with an amazing set of photos on the recent wildfires affecting Los Angeles. Some of the photos are really beautiful while others depict the utter destruction facing some communities in California. I’m always amazed at how beautiful natural disasters like this appear. On one end there’s much damage going on, and on the other end, there’s just this almost-graceful dance of flames shooting up into the sky.
Don’t get me wrong though, I wouldn’t wish this situation on anybody — friend or foe.
The Wall Street Journal Photo Journal
November 14, 2008 @ 5:31 am
Photo: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
The Wall Street Journal Photo Journal is another wonderful photo blog similar to The Big Picture (Boston Globe) that features bigger news photos than most traditional news sites. While the WSJ Photo Journal is less focused per post (it’s more of an overview of the biggest news stories for that day), the content available for viewing is just as impressive as The Big Picture.
Head on over there to get a visual representation of what’s going on around the world.
Oh, so those are teleprompters
November 5, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Photo: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
I’ve always wondered what those two rectangular items were on either side of the podium during big speeches. It turns out that they are teleprompters for the speaker, as seen in these images of Barack Obama, courtesy of The Big Picture.
Up until now, I thought that those “mirrors” were for photographic lighting purposes, but there was always something odd about where they were placed that made me not believe my own inference 100%.
Anyway, I included a couple of more examples of the teleprompters inside if you care to see.
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