Picture of the Day

[IrbiS]

All the Fish in the Sea

 

[dexter]

A list of Legends walked away from ODI cricket after the Cricket World Cup 2015. Here is a brief tribute to the players who announced retirement from ODIs in this World Cup.

 

[jammersat]

 

[IrbiS]

A camera trap near Yellowstone National Park catches a grizzly bear stealing whitebark pine nuts from a squirrel’s cache. The nuts are an important food for the bears, a threatened species.

 

[Windjammer]

Is it a bird..... or is it a kite...... or is it a plane. !!!
I guess you have all the answers.

 

[IrbiS]

Four-year-old Syrian boy Adi Hudea poses, arms raised in surrender, after mistaking a camera for a gun

 

[IrbiS]

Jumma Masjid in Khiva, Uzbekistan is around 1,000 years old. 212-213 trees were cut to be used as columns. 212-213 best wood carvers around the world were summoned and each was given one tree, and 5 years to carve it. Every column is different in design from others. A Master Piece of Art
( I'm not sure for now whether the number is 212 or 213)

 

[Al Bhatti]

Four-year-old Syrian boy Adi Hudea poses, arms raised in surrender, after mistaking a camera for a gun

"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon,"

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31 March 2015

The photo was taken by Turkish photographer Osman Sağırlı in 2014

The photographer who broke the internet's heart

Thousands online have shared an image of a Syrian child with her hands raised in surrender - but what is the story behind it?

Those sharing it were moved by the fear in the child's eyes, as she seems to staring into the barrel of a gun. It wasn't a gun, of course, but a camera, and the moment was captured for all to see. But who took the picture and what is the story behind it? BBC Trending have tracked down the original photographer - Osman Sağırlı - and asked him how the image came to be.

It began to go viral Tuesday last week, when it was tweeted by Nadia Abu Shaban, a photojournalist based in Gaza. The image quickly spread across the social network. "I'm actually weeping", "unbelievably sad", and "humanity failed", the comments read. The original post has been retweeted more than 11,000 times. On Friday the image was shared on Reddit, prompting another outpouring of emotion. It's received more than 5,000 upvotes, and 1,600 comments.

Accusations that the photo was fake, or staged, soon followed on both networks. Many on Twitter asked who had taken the photo, and why it had been posted without credit. Abu Shaban confirmed she had not taken the photo herself, but could not explain who had. On Imgur, an image sharing website, one user traced the photograph back to a newspaper clipping, claiming it was real, but taken "around 2012", and that the child was actually a boy. The post also named a Turkish photojournalist, Osman Sağırlı, as the man who took the picture.

BBC Trending spoke to Sağırlı - now working in Tanzania - to confirm the origins of the picture. The child is in fact not a boy, but a four-year-old girl, Hudea. The image was taken at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria, in December last year. She travelled to the camp - near the Turkish border - with her mother and two siblings. It is some 150 km from their home in Hama.

"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon," says Sağırlı. "İ realised she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands. Normally kids run away, hide their faces or smile when they see a camera." He says he finds pictures of children in the camps particularly revealing. "You know there are displaced people in the camps. It makes more sense to see what they have suffered not through adults, but through children. It is the children who reflect the feelings with their innocence."

The image was first published in the Türkiye newspaper in January, where Sağırlı has worked for 25 years, covering war and natural disasters outside the country. It was widely shared by Turkish speaking social media users at the time. But it took a few months before it went viral in the English-speaking world, finding an audience in the West over the last week.

The photographer who broke the internet's heart - BBC News

 

[ghazi52]

 

[IrbiS]

Wanting to get a closer look at Fuego, a highly active volcano in Guatemala

 

[mughaljee]

D i f f e r e n c e.

 

[Kloitra]

Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction (1937)

Hitler’s Bunker (1945)

This is thought to be the first photograph taken of Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker after his death.

Eiffel Tower Construction (1888)

A Waterless Hoover Dam (1936)

Here’s something we’ll probably never see again in our own lifetime: the Hoover Dam without any water in it.

Mount Rushmore Being Carved (1932)

Specifically this is the head of George Washington.

The First Ever Walmart (1962)

Hard to imagine that from this simple image emerged a supermarket global empire.

Construction Of The Statue Of Liberty (1884)

What’s even more amazing about this image is it shows the statue being constructed in Paris.

Titanic Survivors Boarding The RMS Carpathia (1912)

Not everyone perished on that fateful day in 1912 when the Titanic went down. Here we can see some of the survivors being rescued by the RMS Carpathia.

 

[Kloitra]

Titanic’s Iceberg (1912)

Speaking of the Titanic, this is thought to be the very iceberg that sealed the famous ship’s fate.

Family Photo Left On The Moon (1972)

This family photo was left on the moon by Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke in 1972. It’s even sealed up to keep it protected.

The First Photo Of Outer Space (1946)

How could they possibly take a photo of the Earth from space before there was even a space program? The story goes that soldiers attached a camera to a missile before it was launched. Take that Google Maps.

Google Team (1999)

Who knew how much this relatively modest team at Google headquarters would go on to revolutionise the way we use the internet?

 

[IrbiS]

Last Picture of Titanic

Northern Lights, Alaska

 

[IrbiS]

Holding Fast

Light and smoke commingle to cast a misty glow over devotees during Rakher Upobash, a Hindu fasting festival, in Bangladesh