2007 September ::.. Photos

Couple on a motorbike

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by admin

Couple on a motorbike

Hat Yai, Thailand, 1981

A soggy street in Hat Yai, Thailand, dissolves into streaks in this motion-blurred photo of an umbrella-shrouded couple on a motorbike.

The Sukhothai kingdom, considered the forerunner of the modern Thai nation, was founded in the 13th century when Thai-speaking peoples migrated from southeast China to the River Yom, 230 miles (370 kilometers) north of Bangkok.

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Photograph by Steve Raymer
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Thailand: Luck of a Land in the Middle,” October 1982, National Geographic magazine)

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A cemetery of radioactive vehicles

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by admin

A cemetery of radioactive vehicles

A cemetery of radioactive vehicles is seen near Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant in this November 10, 2000 photo.

More than 1,300 Soviet military helicopters, buses, bulldozers, and other equipment were used—and contaminated—while responding to the April 26, 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

The disaster’s residual effects and its potential for future environmental and health damage has landed Chernobyl on the New York-based Blacksmith Institute’s 2007 list of the ten most polluted sites.

A hundred times more radiation was released during the meltdown of Chernobyl’s reactor than was contained in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The event created a spike in thyroid cancers among children and led to innumerable respiratory ailments, infertility cases, and birth defects in local residents.

Today a 19-mile (31-kilometer) exclusion zone around the reactor remains largely deserted.

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Source: nationalgeographic.com

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Larger then life [2004]

Posted on September 25th, 2007 by admin

Larger then life [2004]

Picture taken in February 2004 on assignment for National Geographic, this photograph shows a unique aerial perspective of The Empty Quarter, the world’s largest sand desert. Photographer George Steinmetz took the picture while piloting his motorized paraglider in a remote part of Oman.

Since it first appeared in National Geographic, it has been included in numerous additional publications and exhibitions.

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Photographer: George Steinmetz
Source: nationalgeographic.com