Mantis
This kind of praying mantis is found only in New Zealand. It is mostly green. It has got a calm temper (in comparison with the African praying mantis) and sits on top of the leaves. One distinguishing characteristic is the blue patch on the inside of the front leg. This little insect can eat approximately 22 flies a day.

Santa Elena Canyon Trail
A view from the Rio Grande basin along the Santa Elena Canyon Trail located in Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Grasshopper
It’s hard to believe tropical insects can match their surroundings so well. This grasshopper found a perfect home on this bird of paradise. It was literally the same color as the plant. However, let the photographer beware!  This grasshopper isn’t getting ready to jump. Instead, these rather large insects will kick with their barbed legs at anything or anyone who would dare to come too close. This photo was taken in Honduras, Central America.

African Spurred Tortoise
Close-up displaying the symmetry of an African spurred tortoise under its massive shell.

Debod Temple
Debod Temple was a present from Egypt to Spain for the reconstruction of the Temple of Abu Simbel.

Jungfrau Glacier
This is a photo of a crevasse in the Jungfrau glacier that appeared like a fish eye. The number of crevasses in the glacier has been increasing over the years as it is observed that the ice in the Swiss Alpine glaciers is steadily reducing as a result of global warming effects.

Monkey
A monkey eating rambutan in Uluwatu Temple, Bali.

Annapurna Base Camp
Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal (4,130 meters). From left to right: Annapurna III (7,555 meters), Gandharwa Chuli (6,248 meters), and unclimbed mountain Machhapuchhre (6,997 meters).

Li River
A fisherman on Li River near Xing Ping, Guangxi Province, China.

Bats of Bracken Cave
Bracken Cave, just outside of San Antonio, Texas, holds the largest bat colony in the world. During the summer months 20 million bats fill the night’s sky in search of insects. For a few evenings a year, Bat Conservation International who own the cave allow people to witness and photograph this unique event.

Deer, Japan
Deer in Nara, Japan, are revered as holy messengers of god and are allowed to roam freely. They are well known for their bowing gestures for food.

Living House
We were driving from Copenhagen to the fjord district of Norway. We passed several houses in the country with grass growing on their roofs. Some even had trees. None was as impressive as this one.

Turkey
When visiting Turkey, I visited the Ephesus Library. This is just one of the statues on the front side.

Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque
The Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is truly a jaw-dropping sight to behold.

Palmyra
Palmyra, or Tadmur, was one of the most magnificent set of Roman ruins I have seen. Built in, or around, 17 A.D., the vast city was built in a desert oasis east of Damascus.

Australian Blue Tongue Lizard
Australian blue tongue lizards are widespread over our great country. This particular species is a common, or eastern, blue tongue lizard, found in the eastern parts of Australia.

Tower Bridge
One of the principal challenges in travel photography is seeing the “familiar” in an unfamiliar way; to push your eyes and mind beyond your creative limits. On my latest trip to London, I knew I wanted to shoot the Tower Bridge, but how? I’ve seen this landmark a hundred different ways, but could I let my mind overcome the endless strand of identical snapshots? In the last moments of the day, balancing my camera on a tent-board sign with a well-timed shutter, one of my all time favorites.

Frog
There was this incredible frog so close to me. This was taken on a field trip in Mindo, Ecuador.

Mammoth Hot Spring
This was taken in September 2009 at Mammoth Hot Spring, Yellowstone National Park.

Palau Shipwreck
A snorkeler gazes at a shallow shipwreck that lies amid the protected waters of Palau’s inner lagoon. The ship was a fishing vessel damaged by an intense storm three decades ago. It has surprisingly little marine growth on it, probably due to the fact that it rests in a part of the lagoon that receives no current and therefore few coral larvae.

Tibetan Monk
A large group of Tibetan monks stopped to relax at the top of a 5000 meter pass, travelling towards Mount Everest base camp. This monk seemed completely at peace, as he floated above the breathtaking view.

Moth
A moth in the morning dew, captured after a night of humidity. The photo portrays one of the smallest and most common butterflies in Italy, but seen from up close, it becomes a true show of color.

Elephants
Two adult elephants and a baby at a waterhole in Etosha National Park in Namibia. The adults appears to be in heated conversation, but the conflict was resolved quickly and peacefully.

Buddhist Monk
This is a shot of a monk walking on train tracks in Ella. Buddhism accounts for 70 percent of the Sri Lankan population. We encountered this monk walking back from a hike to the local mountain called Ella Rock.

Waterfall
A beautiful waterfall in the mountains of West Virginia. The water below this scenic waterfall swirls very slowly; however, the 25-second-long exposure reveals a whirlpool in the gently flowing water.

Thar Desert
Young Rajasthani girls cross the Thar Desert in a village near Jaisalmer to carry water from a distance as a part of their routine.

Golden Temple
A Sikh guard in the early morning at the golden temple, Amritsar, India.

Mount Fuji
“Hatsu hi no de” is the Japanese phrase for “first sunrise of the first day of the year.” This is Mount Fuji as seen from Satta Pass in Shizuoka Prefecture while waiting for the sun to rise, at around 6:30 AM, some stars were still out and should be visible in this photo if you take a closer look. The body of water you see is part of Suruga Bay, and the outermost road is Tomei Highway, one leading to Nagoya and the other leading to Tokyo.

Lake Como
A layer of low clouds covers the alpine valleys of northern Italy, just south of Lake Como. The clouds are just dense enough to hide uniformly the valley, but also filter the artificial lights below like they were an opaque transparent blanket. Above the layer, moonlight and high cirrus clouds make the night less dark. You can easily recognize the round shape of Lago di Olginate and the lights of the villages all around its banks.

Man-of-War
This picture was taken at sunrise, Coral Cove Park, Jupiter, Florida. There were hundreds of man-of-war on the beach. Many were still alive and pulsating. The one in the picture was six inches in length. That weekend over 300 people were stung either walking on the beach or swimming.

Peacock
This photo was taken at Nehru Park at Hyderabad, India. Peacock is the National Bird of India. The elaborate courtship dance of the peacock, fanning out the tail and preening its feathers is a beautiful sight to see.

Namib Desert
This picture was taken in the Namib Desert, one of the most impressive and magical places I have ever visited.

Bubble Coral Shrimp
Only a few centimeters long, a bubble coral shrimp peeks out from among the lobes of its host on a reef off of Mataking Island, Sabah, Malaysia.

Wyoming
I took this picture in Jackson, Wyoming, around 10pm at night. It was around zero degrees Fahrenheit that night. People claimed the lights from the town reflected off of very cold ice crystals to produce the light saber like lights.  The exposure was 30 seconds, f8, and an ISO of 100.

Lorikeet
On a warm Boxing Day in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, this rainbow lorikeet was more interested in feasting on a flowering gum tree than any “Nature Paparazzi” that may be lurking around.  It spent a good few minutes gorging itself before flying off.

Temple of Poseidon
The first morning of 2011 gave a chance for a capture of the crescent moon rising through the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece, little before the beginning of the morning twilight. The moon was 26 days old (three days before the New Moon phase) and 11% illuminated.

Detroit Lake
Walking stumps of Detroit Lake, Oregon.

Beech Forest
Beech forest in wintertime in Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany.

Bison
It was a cold winter afternoon at Yellowstone National Park, and as we rounded a corner in the trail, a herd of bison were disappearing into the cloud of mist from the erupting geysers.

Northern Lights
With the Arctic darkness comes the “Aqsaniq” Inuit term for the Northern Lights. Pangnirtung is a small community of about 1300 on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.

Amazon River
Amazon River at sunset.

Alligator
A wild alligator floats motionless in a South Carolina marsh at dusk. The water was still and smooth as glass.

Cabreira Mountain
Cabreira Mountain is one of the highest points in Portugal, located in the northern part of Portugal. The top is a vast area and a very isolated place, with low vegetation and is an ideal ground for wild horses to grow and run free. I spotted this family of about 10 horses through the mist, they were very quiet until these two started some kind of a playful dancing. They played like kittens for a minute before the misty clouds completed took over the place and I never saw them again.

Leopard Cub
Early in the morning we came upon a female Leopard and two of her three-month-old cubs. The little ones were playing and wrestling with each other when this one jumped up into the tree to rest and observe what was going on around him. Mombo Camp is situated within the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana where this image was shot.

Gecko and Palm Frond
A small gecko pokes his head out from between the ridges of a palm leaf.

Mount Rocciamelone
Sunset view from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3,538 meters/11,603 feet). On the left you can easily see the huge shadow of the mountain’s conical shape.

Matterhorn
Radiant at sunrise, the Matterhorn towers over Riffel Lake near Zermatt, Switzerland.

Alaska
In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a stream carves a canyon through rock formed during the 1912 eruption of nearby Novarupta Volcano. The snowcapped peaks are Mount Griggs and Mount Katmai (far right), part of an active system of ten volcanoes surrounding the valley, a hundred miles south of the proposed Pebble mine.

Damselflies
A pair of damselflies forming a heart shape when mating.

Mexico
Kayakers navigate the waters around Land’s End in Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist destination at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. The continued coastal development of the nature-rich finger of land has raised questions about possible environmental damage.

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David und Goliat

Kiss On The Forehead

Perspective gourmande ~ Greedy Perspective

Suzi holding the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy ’08

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The Balcony (Tribute to P. Ramette)

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Creative and Effective Minimalist Print Ads

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As the economy develops, our world has been thick with commercials and advertisements. However, not all the advertisements have worked as well as what the advertisers thought. After all, no one wants to read a boring paragraph or a long list about the promoted product. It’s the creativity in the ads that can capture the attention of an audience.

Here’s a collection of stunning and creative advertisements found at the Creative Ad Awards – a new ads collecting website that features the most creative ads from the world.

Awaken The Employee Of The Month That Lives Inside You

A Brown So Natural – Brown Hair

Game Boy Micro – Bug

Air Suction Range Hood

Designer Ice Cream

Electric Torch Bait

Harley Davidson – Eric Black

Think About What It Consumes Before Buying

If You Don’t Help Feed Them,Who Will?

The Softness of Surf

Feel When Playing Rugby

Careful What You Think

Fly Manta Arrived to More Places In Ecuador

Tetris Returns

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Tu Comida Se Va A Poner Mas Buena

To Put an End to Endless Pain. Make A Donation

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If There’s One Thing I’ve Learnt

Mr Muscle

It’s Time For A Touch of Spring Cleaning

Do You Know How Much You Really Spend On Cigarettes?

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If You Have Known A Place With VS You Have Known It Deeply

Most Wanted Brands

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Here’s the list of top 5 most expensive houses around the world, You should be super duper rich to own one of them. Maybe for now, just enjoy how beautiful is them:

5. Three Ponds : $75,000,000

In Bridgehampton, New York, there sits a $75,000,000 estate that has its own golf course! Called “Three Ponds” due to the fact that it has, er, three ponds (each stocks with an ample supply of fish, which are hopefully included in the home insurance), and the expansive grounds also house 14 different gardens, each with their own theme!

4. Donald Trump Palace : $125,000,000

Donald Trump owns this 18-bedroom waterfront palace, which is listed as costing $125,000,000. Situated in Florida, Trump says it’s location in Palm Beach is “the richest community in the world” and it doesn’t seem like he’s joking! We also doubt that he’s one to settle for cheap building insurance, either.

3. Updown Court in Surrey, UK : $140,000,000

With neighbors like Elton John and the Queen of England, Updown Court in Surrey, UK is going to be a rather decadent household. Launched with a price of £70,000,000 (roughly $140,000,000) and still unsold as of May this year. Containing 24 bedrooms, each with a marble en-suite bathroom, and an underground garage, the property is estimated to cost around £250,000 ($500,000) a month to run, not to mention the cost of the house insurance! Since this property located in the UK, the homeowner need to know about Conveyancing information under the UK law. In the UK, London is considered one of the most expensive places to own a house besides Surrey (and of course Chelsea). There recommended property portals designed to help you search for the top most expensive houses in London, UK and enable you to determine whether or not the flats for sale in London are an accommodating alternative to the traditional house buy. There’s a rumor that this house is up for sale. The new homeowner needed to make sure that He can afford this house, rather than have to Stop Repossession because of high debt.

2. Ira Rennert Mansion : $180,000,000.

The billionaire found of the Renco Group, Ira Rennert, owns a place in Sagaponack, New York, and at 63 acres of grounds, is considered by many to be the largest residential compound in the whole of America. The house itself has 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, as well as the usual gigantic dining room, sport courts and bowling alley and contents insurance to cover it all. The property is valued at roughly $170,000,000-180,000,000. Looks like this one is the most expensive house in all United States.

1. The Villa La Leopolda in Nice, France: $ 398,350,000

Formerly the home of Bill Gates, but now belonging to really rather rich Roman Abramovich, the Villa La Leopolda in Nice, France would set you back roughly £250,000,000 ($ 398,350,000 ). Its 10 acres of lush, garden-filled grounds require an astounding 50 gardeners to look after it along with the best home insurance that money can buy.

Just Wondering, How Much those home owners have to pay for the insurance of those most expensive house in the world only

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Top Seven Most Expensive Cars

Other than homes, cars are, for most people, the second most expensive thing that they have to pay for. Some are more expensive than others, everyone knows the luxury cars such as the Audi’s and BMW’s cost more than your average Honda Civic. Every year, new car models are brought out for the public and every year there are cars that most of us can only dream of ever owning. The Audi’s and BMW’s don’t even come close to the most expensive cars of 2008. If you simply love expensive cars and information related to them, then you will surely take keen interest on learning about the top seven most expensive cars in the world. Most of the luxury coupes engage huge costs and the public knows very little about these expensive cars. The expensive cars in question actually cost what many regular cars put together would cost.

Ferrari Enzo $1,000,000: The second most expensive car is actually a 12-cylinder Ferrari super car. This excellent car was designed making use of the Formula One technology, like the F1-style sequential shift transmission, a carbon-fiber body, as well as the carbon-ceramic brake discs. The technologies that are not allowed in F1 are also used in this super car, like the active aerodynamics.

Pagani Zonda C12 F $741,000: Introducing the 3rd most expensive car among the top ten most expensive cars in the world. This cool looking car grabbed all the attention when it was introduced in the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. The car had its power increased to 602 PS (443 kW/594 hp). It is worth the money one pays to have it.

Koenigsegg CCX $600,910: This hot car is a CCX model that is more suitable for the U.S market; so, the car has been designed complying with the US regulations. The all aluminum car has an engine that produces 806 hp (601 kW) and 678 lbf.ft (920 Nm) on 91 octane (U.S. rating) gasoline, 900 hp (671 kW) on biofuel and 850 hp (634 kW) on 96 octane (Euro rating) gasoline.

Porsche Carrera GT $484,000: Another car among the ten most expensive cars in the world. This supercar is powered by the all-new 5.7 litre V10 engine, which produces 612 SAE horsepower (450 kW). The car is worth its price and is a treat to drive.

Mercedes SLR McLarensupercar and sports car automobile with SLR technology has a supercharged 5.5 (5439cc) liter dry sumped 90 degree V8. This cool and popular car in the world is engaged in the production of 466.8 kW at 6500 rpm (626 hp) as well as 780 N·m (575 ft·lbf) torque at 3250 – 5000 revolutions per minute (rpm). $455,500: This

Maybach 62 $385,250: This cool car was designed from the concept of the Mercedes-Benz Maybach concept car that was brought before the world in the 1997 Tokyo Motorshow. Hence, you have a car that looks chic and is a favorite with the smart drivers.

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With China posts like ““Chinese girls are the most beautiful girls in the world” – Israeli music”, “China : Sex, Pride and a bit about Israel”, “China : The right to have sex”, and “Is Chinabounder’s “Sex and Shanghai” back?! ” I get alot of “Chinese girls”, “China sex”, “Chinese nude girl” keywords traffic. Those eager visitors end up disappointed as all those posts are just very innocent China related stories. Some even send me funny emails asking me where all the “hot and sexy Chinese girls” are.

Reading Problogger’s call for “Top 5″s, I decided it’s time I make it up to all those “hot Chinese girls” passionate visitors with a Top 5 list of “China’s most beautiful girls”. I’ll leave “sexy” and “hot” for some other time…

To overtake this complicated mission, I had to browse through alot of Chinese girls lists in Chinese BBSes, an exhausting yet pleasurable task. So, I might be old fashioned and a bit off what the Chinese like, but from my very western perspective here are my “China’s Top 5 Most Beautiful Girls” :

张静初 – Zhang JingChu

徐静蕾 – Xu Jinglei

黄圣依 – Shengyi Huang

章子怡 – Zhang Ziyi

巩俐 – Gong Li

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It’s been a while since I posted a pretty picture. So here you go:

This newly released image shows the good ol’ Orion Nebula, one of if not the most active star-forming regions in the Galaxy. It’s pretty closeby as these things go, just 1500 light years away (the Galaxy is 100,000 light years across, so Orion is practically sitting in our lap).

The image is a combination of visible light images taken by Hubble and infrared ones by Spitzer. It’s a little garish for my taste, but still cool. It shows shock waves as the four massive central stars (called the Trapezium) blast out ultraviolet light, heated hydrogen and sulfur gas, complex molecules which glow in the IR, and a lot of the chaos and weirdness typical in a nebula like this.

In a million years, maybe two, all four of the Trapezium stars will have exploded, and over the ensuing centuries the nebula will become even more of a mess, if you can imagine. So savor it now while you can.

London, Sep 17 – Reality TV star Kim Kardashian forked out a whopping 64,000 pounds on handbags in Paris.

The boutique staff of posh Hermes store was stunned to see Kim’s wild expenditure on handbags in a single visit, reports the Sun.

She and mum Kris Jenner, 54, reportedly bought six exclusive Birkin bags, costing 6,400 pounds each.

Kim also bought a rare crocodile-skin bag worth 19,200 pounds and the bill was topped up by France’s skyrocketing sales tax.

The hand-made Birkins, named after actress Jane Birkin, are a huge hit with celebs. (ANI)

How many times have you walked passed a building and wondered just how someone would repair the roof if it were to become damaged? Probably never. But lets pretend you do and lets take a look at some of the world’s biggest roofer nightmares.

The Palazzo a Vela was featured in the 1968 classic the Italian Job and has since become a landmark for tourists around the world. To this day people still try to drive their Mini Coopers across the roof while evading the police.

Montreal is replete with architectural marvels but none create more headaches for roofers than the Habitat 67 buildings in the Olympic Village. Habitat 67 was the brainchild of Moshe Safdie whose design was originally his master’s thesis at McGill University. His unique design was selected as part of the major Expo 67 project. During the Montreal Olympics in 1976, athletes were housed in these apartments. What’s interesting is that almost all my Lego houses looked like that…

The designer of this building is said to have been inspired by a falling handkerchief. This church doubles as a satellite which receives signals directly from God. (I am unable to confirm this so this may not be true)

This is The Terror of the East, known internationally as the most dangerous building ever created. The circular structure detaches and rolls into buildings and people a like leaving mayhem and destruction in its path. Was originally the headquarters for the Krispy Kreme donut empire.

It’s hard to tell where the roof starts and the side of the building ends. One could even argue that this building doesn’t have a roof at all. What a frightening prospect.

Strictly speaking, these buildings probably won’t present many problems for roofers but unless you work for a roofing company called Racist Roofers you might not want to touch this one.

This one gets the award for looking most like King Koopa’s shell. If the prospect of working on the back of a fictional dinosaur/dragon isn’t enough to make you shy away from this roofing project then take into consideration any roof that has smooth slope with spikes sticking out is going to make for an unpleasant work environment.

What can I say about this one?

Working upside-down might dissuade most roofers but not this one:

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