Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Super cute story


A dad from County Durham, in the north of England, helped his five year-old daughter write a letter to the police chief after a conversation about police dogs.


Eliza must have been really happy when she received this:



Chief Constable Michael Barton is a nice guy, don't you think?

Monday, 11 April 2016

Cartoons to make you laugh or make you think

Argentinian illustrator and cartoonist Marcos Severi creates cartoons and images that may be funny, poetic, even serious, but some of them are thought provoking.














"Teach me to love?"

Sunday, 10 April 2016

This little girl is an oil painting

I don't know if the expression "she's no oil painting" is used in the US, meaning plain or unattractive. This gorgeous little girl, however, IS an oil painting. She's the daughter of talented Australian photographer Bill Gekas. He has a knack to make photographs look and feel like classical paintings. Enjoy!








Saturday, 9 April 2016

All aboard... let's fly!

These satellite photos were collected by Benjamin Grant in a study to illustrate the impact humans have on nature, seen from an unusual viewpoint. We're going to take a breathtaking tour around the world:

1. Valparaiso, Chile


2. Tulip fields, Netherlands


3. Melrose Park, Fort Lauderdale, Florida


 4. Complicated road system, just outside Madrid, Spain


5. Snails Pass, in the Andes, on the Chilean side of the border with Argentina


6. Blue evaporation ponds at a potash mine in Moab, Utah


7. Makati City, one of the 16 cities that constitute Manilla, capital of The Philippines 


8. Bourtange is a star shaped fort in the Netherlands 


9. The Grande Dixence dam in Switzerland is the highest gravity dam in the world, at 935 feet


10. Agricultural development in Austria


11. New data reveals that China burns 17% more coal each year


12. L'Eixample district of Valencia, in Spain


13. Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi river, between Zambia and Zimbabwe


14. The village of Espel in the Netherlands is home to 774 inhabitants


 15. Oil field service ships sit off the coast of Borneo


16. Nishinoshima is a volcanic island 940km south of Tokyo, Japan


17. We finish our tour in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia

Friday, 8 April 2016

Pirouette's clever trick

I've been trying to capture this moment for quite a while. Last night I finally succeeded and here she is, opening Peter's bedroom door. Watch how she uses her back foot to lower the handle.