Breath-taking pictures

Just like what's written in the email that I was forwarded with these pictures, they are "just too good not to share". It's such an inspiration! I do dream of travelling to such beautiful places and take such super  fabulous shots! :)

16,000 photographs submitted from 130 countries entered National Geographic Photographs Contest 2010. Some favourites were extracted for publishing.  Scroll down to view the winning photograph.  Unexpected danger in Kanana Camp, Botswana Exquisite Snow Weasel, Minnesota USA Oia Santorini, Greece Piraputanga fish in Sucuri river, Brazil The Louvre, Paris The Pyramids, Egypt Al-Saleh Mosque, Yemen Praying Mantis in Disguise Thunderstorm in Montana, USA A lightning bolt strikes the antenna of The Center building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Alone in the Forest River Bank in Zhenyuan, Guizhou Province, China Mountain fog Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick Heavy load - little fly on a small white flower Great Blue Heron with Meal Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia - Playing with roosters Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada Mount Everest climber

Warminster, England

Feeding Koi fish at Windows of the World, Shenzhen, China

Oasis

Bee, purple flower

Czech Republic

the Angolan Plateau

Buddhist Monastery of Ki, Himalayas

Grand Prize Winner of 2010
National Geographic Contest

Eruption of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia
Winning photo taken by Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore
Contest judge Joel Sartore said, “This image best represented the craft of photography.

Honourable Mention

"The creation" is quite funny! :D

THE CREATION A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race appear?" The mother answered,"God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made.." Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.. The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved." The confused girl returned to her mother and said, " Mom , how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?" The mother answered, "Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his."

The girl pondered and asked herself this question: Then what am I?

Intriguingly bizarre sea creatures!

I got forwarded this in email and I find it very interesting!

Latest exotic seafood better than Viagra and Tongkat Ali combined

As everyone knows, the tsunami in Southeast Asia was devastating both in the loss of life and economically to the region.  

However now that the clean up is underway in the region, deep sea creatures that live too deep to be studied are being found scattered throughout the wreckage.  These creatures were washed up on shore when the waves hit. 

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