Staying Classy

tessaviolet:

wow. What an insanely cool picture.

thedailywhat:

San Francisco Then+Now of the Day: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake — and subsequent fires — brought the city to its knees. 

Good thing it recovered, because photographer Shawn Clover’s composite photos of then and now are absolutely stunning. 

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ckck:

Grotto in an iceberg, Antarctica. January 5th, 1911.

Photograph by Herbert Ponting.

boudist:

Through the Looking Glass.

James Dean contact sheet by Dennis Stock. Part of Magnum Contact Sheets at Stills Gallery, photographed for Art Month Sydney.

The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings, hanging beneath Tower Bridge, during the London 2012 Olympic Games - August 3, 2012.

thedailywhat:

Serendipity of the Day: When photographer Patrick Lu noticed a man proposing to his girlfriend on the capital grounds in Austin, TX, he instinctively snapped a pic to capture the moment.

It turned out so well that the next morning, he threw the image up on Reddit to try and discover the identities of the mystery couple.

Lu’s inquiry quickly made it to the top of /r/Austin with 1,400 up votes, but the groom-to-be, Joel Bush, caught wind of the thread through friends.

Bush, shocked, says he and  fiancée Jennifer Orr are grateful:

We experienced that magic on its own terms, with no thought about posing or anything. And, because the photographer did such an awesome job, we also have that precise moment and her beautiful reaction captured for safekeeping. It’s pretty priceless.

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fishingboatproceeds:

(This is a photograph of tulip fields.)