Once, in the 80s, the Frenchman Jean-Marie Donat, who collects works of art, including rare photographs, came across a bizarre photo from Germany. The photo showed a man with someone in a suit of a big polar bear. More than 10 years later, Donat discovered another similar photograph and realized that there must be quite a lot of such shots. ...

Announced admission to groups for workshops "Secrets of travel photography", which will be held on August 15 and 16, as part of the Moscow Festival of Creativity, in the central courtyard of the Flacon Design Factory with the support of LG G4 s Smartphoto School. A unique training program in the basics of mobile photography combines the theoretical part and consolidating the knowledge gained at the master class of Mikhail Rozanov, a well-known photographer and teacher in the British Higher School of Design, faculty of photography, both in Russia and abroad. ...

To become invisible during hunting or not to be eaten by enemies, many animals resort to various tricks, including camouflage. Let's see who succeeded in creating camouflage better than others and by what mechanisms they manage to do it. Leaf butterflies or callimi These butterflies that live in Southeast Asia and Africa close our ten most inconspicuous animals. ...

New York floral designer Lewis Miller considers it his duty to evoke positive emotions among residents of a gloomy metropolis. And his main tool in achieving this goal are, of course, flowers. Over the past couple of months, mysterious floral arrangements have appeared in Manhattan several times. ...

Italian architect Stefano Boeri, passionate about innovative green structures, is planning to build a 117-meter-tall apartment building, which will be the first building in the world to be completely covered with evergreen trees. The project will be implemented in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 36-story green tower will be called La Tour des Cedres (Cedar Tower). ...

Bram Stoker, of course, made an excellent publicity for Transylvania for many decades to come. It is difficult to find someone who would not hear about the bloodthirsty Count Dracula. And although our today's post is not connected with this character, looking at these pictures, I just want to quote him: "Welcome to my house! ...

A few centuries ago, the area of ​​this reservoir was so large that it was called the sea. The Amu Darya and Syr Darya carried their waters through the hot deserts and filled the Aral with life-giving moisture. The Aral Sea was home to 34 species of fish, and fishing enterprises mined up to 60,000 tons of fish resources here annually. ...

Okay now in the Amgui tundra. Snow and sunny. Spring is coming. Early spring this year. Like three weeks ago, I again look longingly at the distant hills. There, about fifteen kilometers from the reindeer herder camp, the highest Chukchi mountains begin. There is also one of the most beautiful lakes in Chukotka - Lake Ekitiki. ...

The school reforms that Finland once carried out in its educational institutions brought the country's education to the highest level. Repeatedly Finnish schoolchildren were recognized as one of the best on the planet, showing the highest level of knowledge. And all this despite the fact that students in this country spend at least time studying, and only half an hour a day at home! ...

During the Second World War, the Navajo Indians were among the most valuable members of the U.S. Army. Each of them was carefully guarded and monitored for their movements. About why Navajo were awarded such privileges, we will tell in our material about this indigenous people of the United States. Before the arrival of the American colonialists, the Navajos, along with the related peoples of the Atapascians (also called Atabascans) inhabited the semi-desert southwestern territories of the modern United States. ...

I was not going to write about Georgia, at least in the near future. But here is Putin’s statement on the possible abolition of the visa regime with Georgia. What is not a reason? For us, Russians, this may not be an event at all, we got there without a visa, but for Georgians, I think this is great news! ... For many years, such a picture could be considered a symbol of our relations with Georgia. ...

The 60s were significant for the capital of Ukraine, if only because precisely at that time the subway appeared here. Since then a lot of water has flowed. Such a Kiev, as you will see in the following photos, has long been gone. Everything has changed and continues to change, including the appearance and street names. It is all the more interesting to consider them for modern residents and guests! ...

At the word prison immediately recalls the Bastille with its historical revolutions, Sailor silence, Alcatraz, Guantanamo Naval Base and 10 maximum security colony in the Tver region. To be honest, I was somewhat discouraged when I saw a neat building with a garden, without a fence, barbed wire and guards with machine guns. ...

Some artists do not live long enough to experience the sweetness of recognition. Masha Ivashintsova became one of those who did not know fame in life. This Russian artist and theater critic was an active participant in the poetic and photographic underground movement of Leningrad in the 1960s and 80s. ...

The famous Metropolitan Museum of Art digitized and opened up wide access to a completely unique publication about our magnificent northern capital. It was created in the 1880s by Jean-Baptiste Avanzo and is called "Souvenir from St. Petersburg". The book includes 24 photographs depicting the main pearls of the treasury of St. Petersburg - St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter the Great Square, the Winter Palace, Palace Square, the Hermitage, Kazan Cathedral, Smolny Monastery, Nevsky Prospect, Admiralty and much more. ...

I go to the Hammam Al-Bash Museum, take a ticket from a shabbat-frayed pocket from my pocket, ask for a passport, take my passport, hang an audio guide around my neck and push it with the words “faster, faster” into the next building, where there is twilight, nothing is visible, and even the door is behind o. O running ahead of me, I don’t know why it was “faster” - I was alone in the museum! ...