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Paris Fashion Week 2012, France Friday, 27th January 2012, 10:40:12 Album: Humanity, New pictures: 49, Hits: 2703, Size: 2MiB Paris Fashion Week is a famous fashion week held semi-annually in Paris, France with Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation. Currently, the Fashion Week is held in the Carrousel du Louvre. Paris Fashion Week, is part of the Big 4 fashion weeks internationally, the others being London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week. The schedule begins with New York, followed by London, and then Milan, and ending the events in Paris. In 2012 Paris Fashion Week starts January 18 with Y Project by Yohan Serfati, and will be followed by shows from major Fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton, Comme des Garcons Homme Plus, Dior Homme, Paul Smith and more...
Wedding Photography Friday, 27th January 2012, 10:28:33 Album: Artistic, New pictures: 107, Hits: 907, Size: 8MiB A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage or a similar institution. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, poetry, prayers or readings from Scripture or literature is also optionally incorporated into the ceremony. A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white dress and veil. This tradition was popularized through the wedding of Queen Victoria...
Maintenance Hole Friday, 27th January 2012, 10:25:45 Album: Design, New pictures: 28, Hits: 212, Size: 3MiB A manhole (alternatively utility hole, cable chamber, maintenance hole, inspection chamber, access chamber or confined space) is the top opening to an underground utility vault used to house an access point for making connections or performing maintenance on underground and buried public utility and other services including sewers, telephone, electricity, storm drains and gas. It is protected by a manhole cover, also known as a 'biscuit', a plug designed to prevent accidental or unauthorized access to the manhole. Those plugs are usually made of metal or constructed from precast concrete (especially in Europe). Manholes are usually outfitted with metal or polypropylene steps installed in the inner side of the wall to allow easy descent into the manhole. Manholes are generally found in urban areas, in streets and occasionally under sidewalks. They are usually in circular shape to prevent accidental fall of the cover in the hole...
Dragon Jiaozi Friday, 27th January 2012, 10:16:12 Album: Artistic, New pictures: 13, Hits: 13, Size: 0MiB Jiǎozi 餃子 or 饺子 (Chinese transliteration), bánh chẻo (Vietnamese transliteration), gyōza (Japanese transliteration), Mo:Mo: or Momocha म:म: or ममचा (Nepali transliteration), or pot sticker is a Chinese dumpling widely spread to Japan, Eastern and Western Asia. Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping. Jiaozi should not be confused with wonton: jiaozi has a thicker, chewier skin and a flatter, more oblate, double-saucer like shape (similar in shape to ravioli), and are usually eaten with a soy-vinegar dipping sauce (and/or hot chili sauce); while wontons have thinner skin, are sphere-shaped, and are usually served in broth. The dough for the jiaozi and wonton wrapper also consist of different ingredients...
Pictures Of The Day Thursday, 26th January 2012, 23:38:26 Album: Pictures of the Day, New pictures: 36, Hits: 3781, Size: 12MiB The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel thus allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. The colors are chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality. This compression technique was patented in 1985...
San Francisco During Nighttime, California, USA Thursday, 26th January 2012, 12:55:59 Album: World Photos, New pictures: 23, Hits: 860, Size: 1MiB San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391...
Alaska, USA By Ray Bulson Thursday, 26th January 2012, 12:43:47 Album: World Photos, New pictures: 27, Hits: 417, Size: 3MiB Ray Bulson is a professional freelance photographer who turned pro in late 2006 after a 25-year career in chemical engineering. In fact, Ray and his family moved to Alaska from Delaware in September of that year to pursue his passion. He has been photographing for 20 years starting with 35 mm and medium format film, and for the last few years, with 35 mm digital. Ray enjoys all types of photography but specializes in landscapes, wildflowers and wildlife, and more recently in composite panoramas. Wilderness Visions, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 2000 to start selling Ray’s images. His portfolio can be accessed online where prints and greeting cards are sold. Several essays, trip reports, and slide shows are also on the website...
Aircraft Vehicle Thursday, 26th January 2012, 11:47:03 Album: Transport, New pictures: 60, Hits: 653, Size: 3MiB Aircraft are vehicles which are able to fly by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines. Although rockets and missiles also travel through the atmosphere, most are not considered aircraft because they use rocket thrust instead of aerodynamics as the primary means of lift. However, rocket planes and cruise missiles are considered aircraft because they rely on lift from the air. Another type of aircraft is the spaceplane which is an aircraft designed to fly up to extreme altitudes into space and land as a conventional aircraft. The human activity which surrounds aircraft is called aviation. Manned aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot. Unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers. Target drones are an example of UAVs...