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[Tornado Condor]

Here's my favorite picture:

The pillars of creation taken by an amateur astronomer. The sheer fact that these pillars don't exist now but we can still see for another 6,000 years is mindblowing.

 

[Piggus]

I've always loved this one

 

[joe2187]

Do you think it's NSFW because it looks like a trio of dicks?

 

[RawkHawk2010]

 

[Trin]

The pale blue dot

 

[JLG-]

Do you think it's NSFW because it looks like a trio of dicks?

Space porn.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

 

[agrajag]

what is this hilarious/ridiculous creature?

 

[Always-honest]

what is this hilarious/ridiculous creature?

Wait till you see its finger.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

 

[disappeared]

edit: actually I don't even know.

 

[jaxword]

I've always loved this one

Always wondered about this one. Having never worked in construction, it always seemed so surreal, these guys just sitting on nothing. Feels like one false twitch and they'd slide to their deaths, like if someone accidentally dropped their lunchbox, instinctively went for it and voom.

 

[Fury Sense]

 

[Maximilian E.]

I love this photo, taken by Robert Capa...
It´s hard for me to explain, its just somehow.. the feeling...

 

[ConfusingJazz]

The pale blue dot

Or

 

[Arjen]

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

 

[54-46!]

I love this photo, taken by Robert Capa...
It´s hard for me to explain, its just somehow.. the feeling...

What is that dome in the background?

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Favourite may not be the right word, but this makes me appreciate life, more than any of the space photos even

D-Day landing

 

[zoukka]

The power of the mind, courage and devotion. By casting away his ego he became something greater than any war hero in my opinion.

 

[Divius]

Scarlet Johansson.

 

[Ein Bear]

I've always loved this one

I find this picture terrifying... it'd be so easy for it to go horribly wrong.

 

[lilltias]

Wait till you feel its finger.

There.

 

[joe2187]

No, because someone's favorite picture might be nsfw, dipshit.

fair enough,

I've always loved this one

Gonna have to agree with this one, I've always loved old black and white photos of Architecture, and this one is amazing.

 

[LordCanti]

Scarlet Johansson.

That entire series of photos is one of the highlights of my life thus far.

Spoiler

I'm only somewhat joking.

 

[Callo Merlose]

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"

I dislike Lange's fictional backstory for the picture, but this picture speaks volumes to me. It also reminds me of The Boss.

 

[Leonsito]

Always wondered about this one. Having never worked in construction, it always seemed so surreal, these guys just sitting on nothing. Feels like one false twitch and they'd slide to their deaths, like if someone accidentally dropped their lunchbox, instinctively went for it and voom.

Actually, the "ground" is just a couple of meters below them, it's the angle of the pic that makes it seem like they are in the air.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/movies/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-uncovered.html?_r=0

 

[neorej]

It's cliché, I know, but clichés tend to be true.

 

[JaseC]

I'd say my vote goes to Pale Blue Dot also. The sense of scale is practically unfathomable.

Actually, the "ground" is just a couple of meters below them, it's the angle of the pic that makes it seem like they are in the air.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/movies/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-uncovered.html?_r=0

Even the article's author isn't so certain:

But in fact a finished floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza was probably just a few feet away.

 

[RawkHawk2010]

what is this hilarious/ridiculous creature?

The red ruffed lemur!

 

[T.M. MacReady]

http://i.imgur.com/CgveScv.jpg[MG]
Scarlet Johansson.[/QUOTE]

You win.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TUwt3.gif

 

[Biff]

It has provided me with so much laughter. Probably the first meme I really enjoyed.

 

[ComputerMKII]

 

[Borgnine]

 

[Übermatik]

Damn, it's hard to pic one, so I'll just choose one I radomly picked from my folder of cool pics... which is er, over 30GB in size...

 

[aristotle]

Definitely this one. I'll be making a poster of it soon and framing it (with a larger resolution image of course).

 

[ComputerMKII]

Some of these pictures are great, others no so much (the pictures of war and stuff) since they're not supposed to make you think, only appeal to emotion i.e. make you burst in tears. They don't put things in perspective, it's not good journalism.

 

[.GqueB.]

Genuinely this:

I know it's basically a meme at this point but it's such a perfectly captured moment.

 

[eucharis]

Some of these pictures are great, others no so much (the pictures of war and stuff) since they're not supposed to make you think, only appeal to emotion i.e. make you burst in tears. They don't put things in perspective, it's not good journalism.

I agree; I don't think little kids getting sprayed with napalm is a cool picture. :\

 

[Kobe24]

 

[speculawyer]

 

[Tawpgun]

Must have been crazy to actually see. Even in the early space program, being in low earth orbit you could see the curvature of the earth but it still felt like being super high up and the Earth was the biggest thing in the sky.

But to see the landscape of the moon and the Earth rising above it must have been insane to witness. It puts the entire planet into perspective. The pale blue dot is a very boring photo, I would glaze over it had it not been for Sagan's monologue on it. But Earth Rise is a lot more iconic.

If everyone could witness the earth rising from the moon I think the world would be a better place.

 

[jaxword]

I agree; I don't think little kids getting sprayed with napalm is a cool picture. :\

I don't think it's "cool" either, it's horrific and nightmarish...AND IT HAPPENED.

I think it's the epitome of Journalism to make sure people never, ever forget that this is something that happened, this is what humans do to one another.

 

[forgeforsaken]

Always wondered about this one. Having never worked in construction, it always seemed so surreal, these guys just sitting on nothing. Feels like one false twitch and they'd slide to their deaths, like if someone accidentally dropped their lunchbox, instinctively went for it and voom.

Likely publicity stunt/staged photo (though no less crazy/risky)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper

 

[NeckToChicken]

Thousands of years later, we'll still pick up the rock.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Genuinely this:

Disaster Girl

I know it's basically a meme at this point but it's such a perfectly captured moment.

Related to that, I quite enjoy this one as well of her grown up:

Something nostalgic about it.

 

[East Lake]

Always wondered about this one. Having never worked in construction, it always seemed so surreal, these guys just sitting on nothing. Feels like one false twitch and they'd slide to their deaths, like if someone accidentally dropped their lunchbox, instinctively went for it and voom.

There's videos on youtube of the workers hundreds of feet up on the empire state building climbing around without harnesses. Lewis Hine didn't take that shot but if you google image search "lewis hine empire state building" you'll see a bunch more like it.

 

[Fenderputty]

I remember seeing a documentary on this guys. Makes my palms sweat thinking about it.

 

[brianjones]

Related to that, I quite enjoy this one as well of her grown up:

Something nostalgic about it.

did she ever explain why shes smiling at a burning house?

shits not cool

 

[A Pretty Panda]

Favorite in that I can't not laugh at it when I see it.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

Always makes me giggle like an idiot when I look at it.