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From Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma, one of 30...

kokogiak — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:00 -0400

From Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma, one of 30 photos. Here, an aerial photo of a neighborhood hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch)

From A Week of Tornadoes, one of 25 photos. Lightning from a...

kokogiak — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:57 -0400

From A Week of Tornadoes, one of 25 photos. Lightning from a tornadic thunderstorm passing over Clearwater, Kansas strikes in an open field, on May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. (Reuters/Gene Blevins)

From 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, one of 42...

kokogiak — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:29:36 -0400

From 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, one of 42 photos. A fennec fox walks against the wind in Morocco. The fennec, or desert fox, is a small nocturnal fox found in the Sahara Desert in North Africa. (© Francisco Mingorance/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

From Harley Davidson National Rally in China, one of 18 photos....

kokogiak — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:20:38 -0400

From Harley Davidson National Rally in China, one of 18 photos. A couple rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle during the annual Harley Davidson National Rally in Qian Dao Lake, in Zhejiang Province, China, on May 11, 2013. Around 1,000 Harley Davidson enthusiasts from all over China met at the rally, as part of the company’s 110-year anniversary. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

From Welcome Back to Earth, Commander Hadfield, one of 40...

kokogiak — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:55:46 -0400

From Welcome Back to Earth, Commander Hadfield, one of 40 photos. The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, U.S. astronaut Tom Marshburn, and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, lands some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, on May 14, 2013. The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission aboard the ISS. (Reuters/Mikhail Metzel)

From Sichuan Earthquake: Five Years Later, one of 26 photos....

kokogiak — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:34:31 -0400

From Sichuan Earthquake: Five Years Later, one of 26 photos. Here, residents gather before a monument on the 5th anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, on May 12, 2013, in Yingxiu township of Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. China. (AFP/Getty Images)

From A Trip to South Korea, one of 36 photos. A South Korean...

kokogiak — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:29:52 -0400

From A Trip to South Korea, one of 36 photos. A South Korean Buddhist hangs colorful lanterns to celebrate the forthcoming birthday of Buddha at the Chogye temple on May 3, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. Buddha was born approximately 2,557 years ago, and although the exact date is unknown, Buddha’s official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is on May 17 this year. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

From Chinese DIY Inventions, one of 39 photos. Zhang Wuyi sits...

kokogiak — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:42:39 -0400

From Chinese DIY Inventions, one of 39 photos. Zhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on November 14, 2012. Zhang, a local farmer who is interested in scientific inventions, has independently made seven miniature submarines with several fellow engineers, one of which was sold to a businessman in Dalian at a price of 100,000 yuan ($15,855) in 2011. The submarines, mainly designed for harvesting aquatic products, such as sea cucumber, have a diving depth of 20-30 meters (66-98 feet), and can travel for 10 hours, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer)

From On the Border, one of 40 photos. A section of the...

kokogiak — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:36:24 -0400

From On the Border, one of 40 photos. A section of the controversial US-Mexico border fence expansion project crosses previously pristine desert sands at sunrise on March 14, 2009, between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California. The barrier stands 15 feet tall and sits on top of the sand so it can lifted by a machine and repositioned whenever the migrating desert dunes begin to bury it. The almost seven miles of floating fence cost about $6 million per mile to build. (David McNew/Getty Images)

From Soufriere Hills Volcano, one of 31 photos. A view of the...

kokogiak — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:07:40 -0400

From Soufriere Hills Volcano, one of 31 photos. A view of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, with the Soufriere Hills volcano erupting, viewed from orbit aboard the International Space Station on October 11, 2009. The volcano has been active off and on for thousands of years. The most recent period of activity began in 1995, and continues to this day. (NASA)

From A Talk With AP Photographer David Guttenfelder. Yesterday,...

kokogiak — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:35:34 -0400

From A Talk With AP Photographer David Guttenfelder. Yesterday, the International Center of Photography honored the recipients of its 2013 Infinity Awards. The winner of the Photojournalism category was David Guttenfelder, currently Chief Asia Photographer for the Associated Press. The design and video production studio MediaStorm was commissioned to create short films about each of the recipients, and was kind enough to share this one about David Guttenfelder’s years of photojournalism in Africa, Afghanistan and Asia.

From Afghanistan: April 2013, one of 39 photos. An Afghan woman...

kokogiak — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:39:44 -0400

From Afghanistan: April 2013, one of 39 photos. An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 16, 2013. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

From The Netherlands Welcomes a New King, one of 29 photos....

kokogiak — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:40:50 -0400

From The Netherlands Welcomes a New King, one of 29 photos. Newly-crowned Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima appear on the balcony of the Royal Palace with their children, from left: Catharina-Amalia, Ariane, and Alexia in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

From Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Bangladesh Building, one...

kokogiak — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:15:24 -0400

From Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Bangladesh Building, one of 39 photos. Rescue workers attempt to rescue garment workers from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 28, 2013. Hope for survivors under the rubble of a building that collapsed outside the capital of Bangladesh faded on Sunday. With more than 900 people still counted as missing fears grew that the death toll could rise far beyond the latest figures. (Reuters/Stringer)

From Winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, one of...

kokogiak — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:43:20 -0400

From Winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, one of 20 photos. A portrait by Andrea Gjestvang, named Photographer of the Year in the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards. The photograph comes from a project called “One day in history” - Portraits of children and youths who survived the massacre on the island of Utoeya outside Oslo (NO) on 22nd of July 2011. “I bear my scars with dignity, because I got them standing for something I believe in,” says Ylva Schwenke (15). Ylva from Tromso, hid by a path called “The love path”. She was shot in the shoulder, her stomach and in both of her thighs. (© Andrea Gjestvang/2013 Sony World Photography Awards)

From Around the Solar System, one of 35 photos. Dozens of...

kokogiak — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:30:42 -0400

From Around the Solar System, one of 35 photos. Dozens of coronal loops gyrate above several active regions of the sun, as they were rotating into view on October 17, 2012. When viewed in extreme ultraviolet light, the dancing loops of competing and connecting magnetic field lines become visible. (NASA/SDO/GSFC)

From Sichuan Earthquake Recovery, one of 39 photos. A rescuer...

kokogiak — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:48:09 -0400

From Sichuan Earthquake Recovery, one of 39 photos. A rescuer walks in front of a damaged building after Saturday’s earthquake in Lingguan town of Baoxing county, Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country’s worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with 11,000 injuries. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. (Reuters/Aly Song)

From Texas’s Fertilizer Plant Explosion, one of 40 photos....

kokogiak — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:52:07 -0400

From Texas’s Fertilizer Plant Explosion, one of 40 photos. The wreckage of a fertilizer plant burns after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas last week, early on April 18, 2013. The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late on Wednesday, injuring more than 160 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said. (Reuters/Mike Stone)

From Manhunt Underway, Boston Under Lockdown, one of 48 photos....

kokogiak — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:41:52 -0400

From Manhunt Underway, Boston Under Lockdown, one of 48 photos. Members of different law enforcement agencies, in an area around Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2013, at the end of a 22-hour manhunt. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by police early morning April 19, and his brother and second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was captured later the same night, after being found hiding inside a boat in the backyard of a Watertown residence. The two men are suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded at least 170. (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

From Manhunt Underway, Boston Under Lockdown, one of 21 photos...

kokogiak — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:18:14 -0400

From Manhunt Underway, Boston Under Lockdown, one of 21 photos so far. Police in tactical gear conduct a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)