Huge tornado funnel cloud touches down

A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported

Dark clouds churn night, near De Soto, Iowa

Thunderstorm approaches Bill Snyder

Grave markers are silhouetted

Storm clouds carrying heavy rain move afternoon

Eye of Hurricane Earl is seen

Dark clouds stretch across skyline

Seagull flies in front of Sydney city skyline

Flash of lightning illuminates sky

Storm develops over skies of Bangkok on eve

Indian laborer works

Qantas passenger plane

Beautiful photographers combine creativity, artistic vision and technical mastery to take photographs. People in this profession use a wide range of equipment, some of which is specific to certain career fields. Beautiful photographers have a natural eye for composition and can often create an aesthetically appealing photograph out of anything. Here are 15 absolutely incredible architecture photography examples to make your day fresh.

Cuba Gallery, France


Sydney Opera House


Tewkesbury Abbey (England)


The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (England)


The Nave in Gloucester Cathedral, England


Modern Architecture in Asakusa Tokyo Japan


The Houston Skyline


New York – The Calm Before the Storm


Dubai Creek Golf Club


ING House at the Amsterdam Zuidas business district


Modern Architecture in Berlin, Germany


New Trade Fair Main Hall, Leipzig, Germany


Puerto Marina, Spain


Giardini Ex Reali – Venezia (Italy)


Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, Red Square, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

This cat name is Julie, she became a star after her owner, a 28-year-old girl from Florence, Italy, has placed her photo on the Internet. Looking at the pictures you can see that the cat is not lazy, but on the contrary, she apparently did not interfere with those extra pounds.

above: Air1 aquarium (top), Air2 (lower right) Air3 (lower left)


The newest AIR 3 Aquarium design (shown above) by Rémi Bouhaniche and Amaury Poudray of Lyon, France design studio Usin-e is the third in their series of modern laboratory glassware fish tanks.

AIR 1 Aquarium:



AIR2 Aquarium:





Each of the AIR series consists of a glass vessel perched atop metal legs. The first two AIR aquariums have horizontally elongated zeppelin-shaped blown glass (blown by Peter Pignat of Pignat glass) bowls perched atop metal legs.


above: Peter Pignat of Pignat scientific glass-blowing creating the AIR1 Aquarium.

The third is a test-tube like shape with a flat bottom and sheared off top, supported on an angle by white metal rods.

AIR3 Aquarium:





The AIR1 and AIR3 aquariums from a 2010 exhibit at La Bergerie, Marseille:


and the AIR2 aquarium at VIVID Gallery, Rotterdam, NL, 2010:



While it's true that these are impossible to clean, have no filter and are not the most beautiful fish friendly environments, they are beautiful as studies of material, space and balance.