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Sunday Image: Come home safe

Boy Reporter — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:00:15 +0000

The title of this photo says almost as much as the photo itself, “Soldier’s goodbye & Bobbie the cat.”

Sunday Image: Lightning + Volcano

Boy Reporter — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:11:57 +0000

When my co-worker Jeremy passed this along I thought this was photoshopped. Nope. Apparently this phenomenon, dubbed “dirty thunderstorms,” sometimes happens when volcanos erupt.

Lightning & volcanoes, two ridiculous natural events together at last.

The photo is from the most recent explosion in Iceland.

Click through for a full-size image or go to the site for more crazy lightning-volcano stories.

Sunday Image: The original badge collectors

Boy Reporter — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:30:01 +0000

Pfft Foursquare and all their virtual ‘badges.’ We kicking it old-school with the original badge collectors. Boy Scouts!

Original image from the Library of Congress.

Sunday Image: Happy Easter

Boy Reporter — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:00:48 +0000

Always helpful, Barack Obama helps a young girl during the 2009 White House Easter Egg hunt. From the White House Flickr feed.

Sunday Image: Taxidermy

Boy Reporter — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:16:13 +0000

What compels people to want to transform animals into mantelpiece trophies, tacky roadside totems, or even diorama specimens? On the one hand, nothing seems as ludicrous as taking an animal and transforming it into a replica of itself. Why kill it in the first place? On the other hand, few objects are as strangely alluring as Flaubert’s parrot, Goethe’s kingfisher, or Truman Capote’s rattlesnake. Or, for that matter, as out of context as, say, Fenway Partners’ upright grizzly bear in its corporate boardroom in Manhattan. - from Melissa Milgrom’s Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy

Photo from Field Museum library archive.

Sunday Image: An umbrella has other uses

Boy Reporter — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000

Photo by Nina Leen from the George Eastman House collection.

Sunday Image: Bikes and planes

Boy Reporter — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:00:27 +0000

The best thing about this photo is the Flickr title:

Jet Roars over Bicycle Path near Washington’s Nation Airport. Noise-Decibel Level from Aircraft at This Altitude Can Cause Permanent Ear Damage. 11/1972

From the Flickr commons.

Sunday Image: Anything good in the paper?

Boy Reporter — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:59 +0000

Hey, buddy, can you pass me the sports section?

Image from Flickr Commons/Nationaal Archief

Sunday Image: Thanks Olympians

Boy Reporter — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:57:47 +0000

That was a lot of fun guys and gals. See you in London.

Photo from the Drake Hotel’s Flickr feed.

Sunday Image: Line starts on the left

Boy Reporter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:00:43 +0000

No better way to start a week than a cup of coffee. Am I right?

Full size image (and prints) available at Shorpy.