The Serengeti Lion

2013-08-19 ~ Mark

I’m trying to imagine how my 8-year-old self would have reacted to this. Pretty nifty.

2013-05-162017-11-12 ~ Mark

Buckets of iron ore are transported to a major steelworks in Hunedoara, Romania, November 1975.
Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic

The mood here made me think of Tarkovky’s Polaroids. Winfield Parks also took that great photo of the Turkish steambath.

2011-05-312017-11-12 ~ Mark

Two couples have a cookout in Cherokee National Forest. Photo by J. Baylor Roberts. Who doesn’t love picnics?

2011-01-312017-11-12 ~ Mark

What’s in a Surname?. (via) “A new view of the United States based on the distribution of common last names shows centuries of history and echoes some of America’s great immigration sagas.” (Map: Mina Liu; Oliver Uberti, NGM Staff. Source: James Cheshire, Paul Longley, and Pablo Mateos, University College London.)

2010-08-122017-11-12 ~ Mark

Restrepo — A Film by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington. Good-looking documentary. I hadn’t heard of this one. Ebert says ★★★★.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

2009-08-122017-11-12 ~ Mark

SEVILLE, Spain—Feria Festival, 1986. Kind of like that old cartoon I stumbled upon a while back, I hadn’t seen this photo in years, but I remember seeing it in an issue of National Geographic back in the ‘80s.