tamburina: René Maltête
The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp ‘Tøndermasken’ in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched.  from the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012. Via TYWKIWDBI Photo credit: Johannes Bojesen
sfmoma: SUBMISSION: Me as Mickey Mouse http://auroraira.com
tamburina: German photographers Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta take extraordinary before-and-after-death photos of people. The photos are marvelous and wrenching, the difference between flesh animated and the empty vessel gigantic and unmistakable, even when the before-death shot is of someone terribly ill.  See all the portraits here
mandonna37: pp15: When give up is not an opcion. Luis Ocaña, a famous rider in the 1971 Tour de France, after he was crashed into by Merckx and again by Joop Zoetemelk while trapped under his bike. The incident was famous because it took him out of the yellow jersey, giving it to Merckx, who refused to wear it the next day. The picture above shows just how unfair the Tour was to him. He had four abandons, but this one was probably the worst. He was so incapacitated from the crash and streaming in blood, that two team mates had to hold him up on his bike and push and pull him to the finish. All in the hope he could start the next day, which unfortunately he didn’t. (edited source)
artchipel: Lissy Elle | on Tumblr - 244/365 | In Place of a Lamp There’s something so therapeutic about stringing up a dozen mason jars and rolling around under them in the dark… This is how I envision Princess Alyssabeth’s lights up her room.
artchipel: Lissy Elle | on Tumblr - Glowing Jars Painted light. Out take of this