Wednesday, 7 December 2011

70 Thn Pearl Harbor


"2400 prajurit Amerika tewas,
akibat serangan udara Jepang"

Sebuah kapal laut perang milik Amerika hancur akibat serangan udara Jepang pada 7 Desember 1941 di Pelabuhan Hawai Pearl Harbor. 7 Desember ini merupakan peringatan 70 tahun serangan Jepang ke pelabuhan Pearl Harbor. Sekitar 2400 prajurit Amerika tewas dalam pertempuran tersebut. REUTERS/U.S. Navy Photograph/Newscom.











By Santirta Martendano : berita.plasa.msn.com

Big Picture: Pearl Harbor #2


Pearl Harbor 70th anniversary

Some 100 survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor will gather in Hawaii today 70 years after the day which drew the US into World War II. The Japanese air and naval strike on the American military base claimed nearly 2,400 lives, destroyed over 160 aircraft and beached, damaged or destroyed over 20 ships. President Franklin D. called it " a date which will live in infamy" when he addressed the Congress the next day asking to declare war with Japan. -- Lloyd Young (35 photos total)

Survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor wait outside before starting their tour of the USS Arizona Memorial at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu Dec. 5. (Hugh Gentry/Reuters)

Friday, 18 November 2011

Photomicrography


Nikon Small World 
Photomicrography Competition

The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition lets us see beyond the capabilities of our unaided eyes. Almost 2000 entries from 70 countries vied for recognition in the 37th annual contest, which celebrates photography through a microscope. Images two through 21 showcase the contest's winners in order, and are followed by a selection of other outstanding works. Scientists and photographers turned their attention on a wide range of subjects, both living and man-made, from lacewing larva to charged couple devices, sometimes magnifying them over 2000 times their original size. -- Lane Turner

Dr. Igor Siwanowicz of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany shot "Portrait of a Chrysopa sp. (green lacewing) larva" at 20x magnification using the confocal method. (Dr. Igor Siwanowicz)

Simple Day



Often in the Big Picture we feature "slice of life" photography originating from around the world, brought to us by photographers based in those countries who work for the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images. The photographs are often simple and show daily life in many places that we might not be able to experience in any other way except through those photographers' documentation. The images themselves are somewhat universal - they show us where people live and how people live, sometimes not so differently than we do ourselves. -- Paula Nelson.


Three-year-old Nadia Nassrallah eats her breakfast in from of her home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 4, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Eclipse Photos

"Ring of Fire" Shine Over Africa, Asia


Eclipse Ring Over India
Photograph by Rupak De Chowdhuri, Reuters