Carnival

Lots of great pictures. I hadn’t really connected all the different types of carnival celebration in my mind. More pertinently, where does her costume end and someone else’s start?

Big pictures

Loads of good stuff in there: lovely shot of a woman golfing in La Paz, La Princesse in Liverpool, the bushfires in Australia (how did those cattle survive?), China’s lantern festival and the destruction of the Mandarin Oriental, and a Tibetan prayer...

London from above again

Lots of excellent new photos of London from above. Number 8 helped me understand what the Regent Street Christmas lights were about. Can the planners have anticipated this shot?

Chinese New Year – Welcoming the Ox

Chinese New Year – Welcoming the Ox. More Big Picture extracts. Good to see the Chinese ability to put on a large event isn’t limited to the Olympics, that Liverpool has a thriving China Town and that eclipses are just astonishing.Eclipse in the...