Sunday, September 3, 2017

#Photography for the Unusual 9/4


Dorchester, UK

Mr & Mrs Flora are a show favourite at the Dorset county show

Photograph: Finbarr Webster/REX/Shutterstock

It looks like they have roller skates ... which will help them escape the bees, right?

Zen Yogi:  so cynical

Take it easy, Yogi, since it looks like they're having a ball.  In fact it looks like they're at a ball.





Lausanne, Switzerland

A caged autonomous cargo drone flies in front of the education centre during the EPFL drone days at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Photograph: Valentin Flauraud/EPA

There are rumors they will soon invent a helicopter which can carry much heavier cargoes than this.




Santa Fe, US

Pyrotechnicians rig fireworks in preparation for a major display

Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images

Maybe this is at Burning Man but it looks like they won't so much burn him as blow him right up.

Note:  I did not learn until after I had written the article that there was a death at Burning Man.  I mean no disrespect and I'm sorry it had to come to you that way, kid.




Xi’an, China

Firefighters and excavators work to save a 20-month-old boy who got stuck in a disused well

Photograph: VCG/Getty Images

Check out all those hard-hearted Socialists trying to save a kid.




Austin, Texas

Contestants in the imperial category of the 2017 World Beard and Moustache Championships

Photograph: Cahn/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

That should handle your need for the unusual for quite some time to come.  Tip:  if you can attend, don't miss the soup eating contest.

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