Friday, February 22, 2013
Incredible Photos of Sharks and Dolphins Preying on Mackerel
Incredible Photos of Sharks and Dolphins Preying on Mackerel
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British Wildlife photographer Christopher Swann swam in the midst of this frenetic battle of life and death to capture this images off the coast of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands of mackerel swam into a huge shimmering ball 30 feet in diameter to protect themselves from the predatory onslaught of dolphins and sharks. But as the shoal flees from deeper waters towards the surface, clusters of Cory's shearwaters begin to dive-bomb them from above. Left with no escape, the blue jack mackerel have little choice but to wait until the pod of short-beaked common dolphins have had their fill.
Christopher Swann has been involved in the professional diving arena as a diver, photographer and writer, for many years. He first came in contact with oilfield diving in 1965 when he made a film on the first commercial lock-out diving bell Purisima after coming to California from his native England to take a course at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.
Since then he has worked for the French subsea company Comex, as a photographic technician in the North Sea oilfields and on the administrative staff of a small independent oil company in Indonesia. He was the head of the photographic department, and a crew member with the Johnson Sea Link I submersible, at the Harbor Branch Foundation in Florida. He has done archaeological work in the Mediterranean and dived on wharf inspection and maintenance contracts. In 1973, he was a subject in two 1,000ft chamber dives at the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.
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10 Most Amazing & Exotic Restaurants
10 Most Amazing & Exotic Restaurants
1) Waterfall Restaurant (Philippines)
2) Floating Restaurant (Sweden)
3) Mineshaft Restaurant (Finland)
4) Airplane Restaurant (England)
5) Bank Vault Restaurant (Colorado, US)
6) Cave Restaurant (Africa)
7) World's Smallest Restaurant (Italy)
8) Cardboard Restaurant (Taiwan)
9) MuvBox Shipping Container Restaurant (Canada)
10) Monkey Restaurant (Japan)
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10 Interesting Facts about Barack Obama
10 Interesting Facts about Barack Obama
Barack Obama – The president of the United States of America. In a country where racism is everywhere, he was elected as the president of US despite of being black. Of course the journey to reach at the top wasn't easy for Obama but he did everything so perfectly. He was a good student since he was little and was brought up by only her mother. General people know many things about Obama but to know him deeply and correctly, little things matter.
10) Obama has used drugs. When he was young, he tried Marijuana and Cocaine. His views about it now is that he was not proud of it and calls it a mistake.
9) Obama does not like Ice-cream. When he was young, he worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shop. His hatred for ice-cream came from there.
8) Obama loves and has read every Harry Potter book. Whenever he is home, he reads them to his oldest daughter Malia at night.
7) Obama loves architecture. If not politician, he would have become an architect. He loved it since he was little and always gave special attention towards it.
6) Obama's IQ is 143. Average person's IQ is about 90 to 115. "Talented" is about 115 to 125. "Gifted" is about 125 to 140 and about 140+ is commonly known as having the potential for "Genius".
5) Obama was given a Grammy award in 2006 for best spoken word recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.
4) Obama was born in Hawaii but went to Indonesia with his mother after his parents got divorced. He ate dog meat, snake meat and roasted grasshopper there.
3) Obama, before running for president, promissed his wife that he would quit smoking once the elections start. He failed to do so.
2) Obama carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq with him for good luck all the time.
1) According to Obama, his worst habbit is checking his blackberry constantly for new notifications.
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Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art
Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art
River rocks may not seem very interesting to you, but once you see what Italian rock painter Ernestina Gallina can do with them, I'll bet you'll see them in a new light.
Ernestina Gallina, from Cenestino, Italy has had a thing for the arts ever since she was just a child. She loved painting, drawing and modelling, but because her family never encouraged her to develop her skills, she never attended art school and she only exercised her artistic talents as a hobby. In 1987, she and her family moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where she discovered a yet unknown world – that of nature and animals. Then, one day at the library, she stumbled upon a book on rock painting, and became intrigued about how simple river stones could be transformed into nature-inspired works of art. It gave her the chance to combine her passion for the arts with her love of wildlife, so she started rock painting and never looked back.
After honing her skills for three years, Ernestina Gallina started teaching others the secrets of rock painting, and in 2003 she founded Italy's first rock painting club. Although rock painting as an art form has been around for a very long time, this Italian master has taken it to new heights with her series of incredibly realistic "living stones".
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