An internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access, most for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc. It may serve as a regular café as well, with food and drinks being […]
The Nine Emperor Gods Festival, also known as Vegetarian festival, a Chinese festival to celebrate the return from heaven to earth of the Nine Emperor spirits. The festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth moon in the Chinese lunar calendar.
In Thailand, this festival is called Tesagan Gin Je ???????????, the Vegetarian Festival. The […]
Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position.
The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or triggered automatically.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, […]
City life is fast and fun in the bright lights of cities at night. Whether you like Shanghai night skyline pictures, New York night time city images or other great cities around the world at night, you’ll love taking them.
The night time transforms the day city landscape to the totally another scene. The night […]
Photographer Ken Ohyama (Oyama) opens our eyes to the under appreciated architecture and engineering feats of today’s modern highway interchanges.
Although they are a complex series of roads when looked from afar and breathtakingly powerful when viewed up close, we often ignore these modern mysteries of marvel as part of the back ground in our fast […]
Tibet is a plateau region in Central Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the “Roof of the World”. Geographically, UNESCO and Encyclopædia Britannica consider Tibet to be part of Central […]
A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation or nickpoint.
Some waterfalls form in mountain environments where the erosive water force is high and stream courses may be subject to sudden and […]
Souvenirs is a selection of travel souvenirs photographed in their real locations by photographer Michael Hughes.
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The basic idea is that you take an image on a postcard or a souvenir of a place like a model or a plate, hold it up, and take a photograph so that the souvenir is overlaid on the real […]
