Imagica: Wonderful Photography of All Kinds of Things!

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The severe storms cleared into the North Sea early on Thursday morning, although there remains a risk of isolated thundery showers developing on Thursday.

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The storms formed across France during the afternoon and steadily headed north, crossing the English Channel. They hit the south coast, dropping torrential rain, during the early evening.

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Lightning strikes over blocks of flats in London, during a summer storm which lit up the sky in the early hours of the morning.

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Max, a Galapagos tortoise, opens wide for a bite of a watermelon during feeding time at Oklahoma City Zoo.

2008-07-29T14:46:00.000-07:00

A bar inside the trunk of a Baobab tree has tourists flocking from far and wide just to drink a cold brew in the amazing tavern. It was fashioned inside a massive 72 foot (22 meters) high tree in a garden in Limpopo, South Africa, for thirsty locals.
Grown in the grounds of Sunland Farm, the tree trunk is so wide it takes 40 adults with outstretched arms to encircle its 155 foot (48 meters) circumference. The trunk is hollow, but its walls are still up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) thick.

The tree has its own cellar, with natural ventilation to keep the beer cold.

Carbon-dating has determined the ancient tree to be about 6,000 years old. “This tree is likely to be older than the Giza Pyramids of Egypt.” said Heather van Heerden, owner of Sunland Farm.

“It is phenomenal to have such a magnificent tree in your back garden. It is possibly the biggest living thing on earth.” she adds.

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In
Zimbabwe, Africa, you will find the
magnificent Victoria Falls, at a height of 128m.
The location is known as the 'Devil's Swimming Pool'. During the months of
September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the
falls without falling over.
These falls are becoming well known amongst the 'radical tourist' industry,
when more and more people search for the ultimate experience.
Would you dare?

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Black Rock Mountain State Park, view from the Blue Ridge look out.

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An Afghan man carries a bundle of balloons as he walks along a street on the outskirts of Kabul.

EMILIO MORENATTI /

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In Berlin, Germany, zoo officials show off Adolpho, a two-month-old, 3.3kg (7.3lb) giant anteater born in captivity.

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Balloons are released into the air during the celebration for the inauguration of the light rail bridge in Jerusalem, Wednesday June 25, 2008. The bridge, which curves across Jerusalem's western entrance and will eventually carry a new light rail line, is suspended from 66 white cables attached to a spire 387 feet (118 meters) high that towers over the surrounding rooftops and is visible from miles away. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Fireworks explode over a medieval castle and are reflected in a lake during a Festival of Fire in small town Mir, 95 kilometers (60 miles) west of Minsk, Belarus, early Saturday, June 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Trees are reflected in the still waters along a river near Eugene, Oregon July 1, 2008.

REUTERS/Mike Blake

2008-07-02T12:06:00.001-07:00

A commercial flight lands on the Miami's international airport, Florida July 1, 2008. Stocks pared losses to trade little changed on Tuesday after a report showed U.S. factory activity expanded in June for the first time in five months, offsetting worries about rising oil prices. Stocks such as airlines, transportation and energy-dependent manufacturers were hit hardest by the steady rise in oil.

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Michael Phelps swims to win his heat in the Men's 200m Butterfly at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, July 1, 2008.

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

2008-07-02T12:01:00.000-07:00

Three pigs seek solid footing on the roof of a building after floodwaters from the Mississippi and Iowa Rivers inundated Oakville, Iowa.

JOE RAEDLE / GETTY

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Indian flood victims catch fish from a river at Sabang, about 200 km (124 miles) west from the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, June 21, 2008. Flood victims in eastern India took refuge on treetops as monsoon rains swamped homes and continued to spread misery among millions.

REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw

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The moon is observed through a sign, which appears golden due to the reflection of the sun, during the summer solstice in Barcelona June 21, 2008. The summer solstice is the longest day in the year when the sun is furthest from the equator in the northern hemisphere.

REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino

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A Bolivian priest makes offerings to Pachamama (Mother Earth) during the winter solstice in La Paz June 21, 2008.

REUTERS/Gaston Brito

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Contemporary Art specialist at Christie's, Pilak Ordovas, views 'Balloon Flower' by U.S. artist Jeff Koons in central London June 19, 2008. The sculpture will be auctioned at the end of June and is estimated to sell for approximately 12 million pounds ($23 million). REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN)

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Taking to the skies : A Motocross rider competes in the National Adventure Sports Show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in south west England. (AFP/Carl de Souza)

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Volunteers pose nude for photographer Spencer Tunick in the grounds of Blarney Castle, Cork, June 17, 2008. You Witness News/Cillian Kelly

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An aerial view of the flood devastation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 13, 2008. You Witness News/Ron Mayland

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The New York Times building is struck by lightning in New York June 10, 2008. REUTERS/Nic Fulton (UNITED STATES)

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People walk past a closed shop during an indefinite strike called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Gorkha People's Liberation Front), at Kurseong town, about 32 km (20 miles) south of the northeastern hill resort of Darjeeling June 17, 2008. Protesters shut down the famous Darjeeling hills on Tuesday, threatening its tea and tourism industries, as the Gorkha community pressed its demand for autonomy with an indefinite strike. Gorkhas, who are ethnic Nepalis, are demanding a separate state of "Gorkhaland" be carved out of West Bengal to protect their culture and heritage.

REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

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A rainbow greets walkers along the Lewiston Levee after an afternoon shower Monday, June 9, 2008 in Lewiston, Idaho. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Barry Kough)

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Lightning streaks through the skies over the Silvi Concrete factory in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

TOM KELLY IV / THE WEST CHESTER DAILY LOCAL NEWS / A

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A Chihuahua pup named Zachary from Cundy's Harbor, Maine ,snuggles,Wednesday, May 28, 2008, with one of three orphaned squirrels that his mother is raising along with her own two puppies. (AP Photo / The Times Record, Troy R. Bennett)

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A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Lori Mehmen)

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A child plays among sarees out for drying at a cotton saree factory in the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad June 12, 2008.

REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder

2008-06-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

A Palestinian child walks near the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City June 11, 2008.

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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A green parakeet carries a flower petal in its beak in Sao Paulo, Monday, June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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A man is reflected in an artwork as he walks past "Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory" by artist Richard Avedon at the Art 39 in Basel June 3, 2008. The international art exhibition is running from June 4-8, 2008. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND)

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An altar boy holds a cross next to the coffin of Lucienne Heurtelou during a mass in the Saint-Pierre church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti May 27, 2006.

REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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Driving through rapeseed : A car seems to drive in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)

2008-06-07T06:59:00.000-07:00

Birds flying at sunset. Starting as a single excited shout, the words rippled down the line: "Hoopoe! Hoopoe! Left! Left! Left!" To the uninitiated ear it sounded like the chant of an excited crowd of football fans. But these gasps of delight came from a jovial group of a dozen binocular-wielding Britons doing what they love best -- birdwatching in Europe's avian megalopolis. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

2008-06-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

Past the poppies : Cyclists pedal by a poppy field during the 12th stage of the 91st Giro d'Italia from Forli to Carpi. Italy's Daniele Bennati won the stage while country fellow Giovanni Visconti kept the pink jersey of the overall leader. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte)

2008-06-07T06:57:00.000-07:00

Alps view : View of Tignes, French Alps, where the French football team is practicing for the upcoming Euro 2008. (AFP/Franck Fife)

2008-06-07T06:56:00.000-07:00

A newly born baby flamingo reaches up for its mother at the Oji zoo in Kobe, western Japan May 25, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

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Lake landing : A bird lands in a rock in the Llanquihue lake, some 50 km east of Puerto Varas, 966 km south of Santiago. (AFP/Francisco Negroni)

2008-06-07T06:53:00.000-07:00

A sculptor works at a sand park exhibition in Pera, southern Portugal May 21, 2008. More than 60 sculptors created a park with sand sculptures of well-known Hollywood films and characters in the Portuguese southern village of Pera. The park will be inaugurated on Thursday. REUTERS/Hugo Correia (PORTUGAL)

2008-06-07T06:52:00.000-07:00

A giant fork sculpture, created in 1995 by Swiss artists Jean-Pierre Zaugg and Georges Favre, is pictured on the shores of Lake Leman in front of the Alimentarium, the Food Museum, in Vevey June 4, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND)

2008-06-07T06:49:00.001-07:00

A gopher runs alongside the car of McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain during the afternoon practice session at the Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal, June 6, 2008.

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

2008-06-07T06:46:00.000-07:00

Photograph by Robb Kendrick

A Qatari man in a traditional white dishdasha robe and a wind-blown red-and-white kaffiyeh stands before a sandstone formation near Dukhan. Qatar, a desert-covered Persian Gulf peninsula about the size of Jamaica, may be small, but its oil and natural gas reserves give it big clout. Per capita incomes there are among the highest in the world.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Revolution From the Top Down: Qatar," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)

2008-06-06T07:50:00.001-07:00

A laborer plants flowers for the Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It is estimated that more than 40 million plants will be placed around the city during the games.

2008-06-06T07:48:00.000-07:00

Ducking Around
Three ducks swim in a flooded street in Getxo, Biscay, northern Spain, after the banks of the Gobelas River burst.

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A woman walks past art sculptures in front of the main entrance of the Art 39 in Basel June 3, 2008. The international art exhibition is running from June 4-8, 2008.

REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

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A shoal of 15,000 sardines flees a shark at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium in Japan [AFP]

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A pig crawled through a hole in a wall of a collapsed house in Renhe village in Shifang, in Sichuan Province.
Photo: Nicky Loh/Reuters

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A boy plays inside pipes laid out on a street in New Delhi May 20, 2008.

REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

2008-05-20T13:56:00.001-07:00

$2,430,000: A very rare Faberge miniature chair is seen at Sotheby's auction house, in New York, April 10, 2007.

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$22,000: A 25-pound (11 kg) Ashera is photographed in Oceanside, California December 4, 2007. The Ashera is a mix between an African Serval, an Asian Leopard and a domestic cat that can weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg). For cat lovers with exotic tastes and deep pockets, a California biotech company has created a hybrid breed that resembles a mini leopard.

REUTERS/Mike Blake
YIKES!!

2008-05-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

A rabbit is seen in front of U.S. Marines, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, near the town of Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, May 19, 2008.

REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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Yves Rossy, also known as 'Fusion Man,' flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland.

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A crocodile hatches during a crocodile hatching festival at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Bangkok.

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Art from food!

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Upper West Side, NYC

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Downtown NYC, September 11, 2001

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5 week old hairless kittens.

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Sunset on the Reservoir Wall as seen from the Cat Wall
Indian Creek, Utah
April 2003

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The Major Oak of Sherwood Forest.
Size in 1790: Trunk at ground level: 34 ft 4 in circum; at 1 yard: 27 ft 4 in; at 2 yards: 31 ft 9 in. Measured by: Major Hayman Rooke
Size in 1990: Height=16 metres, average diameter=337 cms, species robur, measured by: Alan F.Mitchell

2008-05-09T09:09:00.001-07:00

A girl straightens her overcoat as she passes one of the monuments in the open-air museum of World War II in Kiev. Ukraine, along with Russia and other post-Soviet countries celebrated Victory Day on May 9, 2008, marking the end of the war.

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Moon over Patagonia : View of the sunset in Bariloche, in the Patagonian Andes, Argentina.
(AFP/Juan Mabromata)

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Baby giraffe.

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The earth from the moon.

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A cloud of smoke and ashes produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten volcano are seen over Chaiten on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, in southern Chile. The eruption spewed incandescent material and blated ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky, forcing authorities to a complete evacuation of the area.
(AP Photo/La Tercera)

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An artist takes part in a water buffalo painting competition at the Binatbatan Festival in Vigan, north of Manila [Reuters]

2008-05-06T13:55:00.001-07:00

The Jouberts have raised Jessica since she was found, barely a day old, on a river bank in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa, in March 2000.

Neighbour Sybrand van Vuuren said while he 'would not like to shoot Jessica', it would be hard to tell her apart from other hippos.

2008-05-06T06:41:00.000-07:00

An albino kangaroo named Milka clings to his mother at a zoo in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Saturday, April 26, 2008. The cub was born 3 and a half months ago, but the zoologists have not examined it to determine its sex fearing they will harm the fragile kangaroo.
(AP Photo)

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Visitors view a field of moss phlox at Hitsujiyama park in Chichibu, west of Tokyo, Friday, May 2, 2008. More than 200,000 moss phlox are now in full-bloom at the park.
(AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

2008-05-06T06:39:00.001-07:00

In this photo released by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, a parrot slam-dunks during a performance at the Laohutan Ocean Park in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning province, on Friday May 2, 2008.
(AP Photo/Xinhua, Ren Yong)

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A stork is seen as the sun sets, near the town of Volozhin, 70 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, May 4, 2008.
(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Hungarian Puli sheep dog, Fee, jumps over a hurdle during a preview for a pedigree dog show in Dortmund on Thursday April 24, 2008.
(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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A newborn black Jaguar, Panthera Onca, who is two-month-old and yet to be named, plays at the Huachipa zoo in Lima, Monday, May 5, 2008. The cub is the third black Jaguar born in captivity in Peru.
(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Diving swimming rats!

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Obviously done by a pet rat owner! LOL!

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A bride crosses a lake on a horse on the set of a photo shoot, in Shidu, southwest of Beijing. A Chinese company runs group tours to the area for soon-to-be-married couples, to that they can shoot their wedding photos in spectacular settings.