“View from the Window at Le Gras”
by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1827(ish).
This is the first known photograph ever successfully taken, and by that virtue also the world’s oldest surviving photograph.
Went on a hike with my English class today in the Shawangunk mountains.
It was pretty epic and a lot of fun, glad I brought a camera too.
Street art has gained new meaning and is thriving in post-revolutionary Egypt.
(PHOTO/Ghada Mashamoun/PBS NewsHour: A painting says “save Egypt and it will be a better place than before.”)
Aerial view of local agriculture near Bwindi Inpenetrable National Park, Uganda, home to mountain gorillas.
by Doug Allan
(via travelingcolors)
Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
“It is of such extraordinary construction that it is not possible to describe it with a pen, particularly since it is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of.”
-Antonio da Magdalena, 1586.
Angkor Wat still functions as a place of Thereveda Buddist worship, making it one of the largest and oldest spiritual temples on Earth still in use (continuously).
“Dressed for ceremonial dancing, a boy awaits the start of his town’s Saint’s Day celebration, San Pedro Chayuco, Mexico.”
