Index of Pictures

Hover over a small square image to see a brief description; click on the image to go to the page where it occurs in context.
If several similar pictures occur in a page together, only one of them may be shown here.
‘Thumbnails’ may be distorted as I have had them rendered all square or crudely rectangular.
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Animals

Birds

Cats and Dogs

of all sorts

Mostly Mammals

(mostly wild)

Fish, Reptiles & Amphibians

Giant Bell Jellies at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Tasselled wobbegong shark eating another shark

Art

Salvador Dalí: Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Eric Grohe: Brewery fermenting rooms Wall, after

Monument, Day and Night, Kaunas, Lithuania

Marcus Levine creating a painting by nailing a white wooden panel

Baltic, Kids on Spit by Jeanie Mellersh using an iPad

Michelangelo: Detail from The Creation of Adam

Spoof Art

Simpsons: Persistence of Memory (by Matt Groening)

Michelangelo (parody): Flying Spaghetti Monster (The Creation of Adam)

Michelangelo (parody): Creation of Adam’ from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

Michelangelo (parody): David after a stay in America

Astronomy within the Solar System

From the Earth

Time-lapse photo of the sky taken from Yosemite Falls

View of the Milky Way from the Mardi Khola Valley in the Himalayas

Spacecraft & Rockets

Hayabusa spacecraft over Southern Australia during its re-entry on 13 June 2010; it was launched in 2003 to visit asteroid Itokawa

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) re-entry

Earth and its “Moon(s)”

Colourful Moon showing distribution of minerals in lunar rock

Asteroid 2010 tk7 whose orbit closely follows the Earth’s

Earth from Space

A variety of ice types off the coast of East Antarctica, from space

The Earth photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990

Solar System

Venus in Transit across the Sun’s face on 2004:06:08

Inner Solar System showing asteroid groups

Tiny Asteroid Itokawa, visited by a Japanese spacecraft

Diagram of the Lagrangian Points especially with respect to asteroid orbits

New rings of Saturn discovered by Cassini

Astronomy outside the Solar System

Stars, Nebulae, etc. inside our Galaxy

Nasa’s Kepler mission saw a world where two suns set over the horizon; the planet is called Kepler-16b

M17, Swan or Omega nebula (VLT Survey Telescope)

Centre of the Milky Way as photographed by the Hubble Telescope

Galaxies

(not nebulae)

Star cluster NGC 2100 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the picture dominated by the Tarantula Nebula

Dwarf irregular galaxy Holmberg II as seen by Hubble Space Telescope

A supernova (SN2011fe) explodes in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)

XMMXCS 2215-1738, a distant cluster of galaxies

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, a WMAP image of the temperature anisotropy

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), satellite

NASA chart of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Gravitational lensing as photographed by the Hubble Telescope

An almost perfect Einstein Ring, showing the effect of gravitational lensing

Buildings

Balcony of floor 103 of a Skyscraper in Chicago

Outside the Balcony of floor 103 of a Skyscraper in Chicago

Burj Khalifa Skyscraper, Dubai, looking down

9/11, second plane hitting tower, The Guardian

William Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon

The international border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a café

Paris computer games store with a Flat Floor

Wealth and Poverty in the Favelas (shanty towns) of Brazil

London

Crazy Buildings

Experience Music Project, Seattle (front)

Ripley’s “Believe it or not” Museum, near Niagara Falls, Canada

Calakmul, the Washing-Machine Building, Mexico

The Orbit Sculpture, London Olympic Park

Cartoons, Logos, Symbols and Other Paraphernalia

Steve Bell

Berger & Wyse

(& more)

Berger and Wyse “Cat Food” cartoon from ‘The Guardian’

Peter Duggan Artoons

(and more)

Computer cartoons

(and more)

Flags and Coats of Arms

Repetitions occur because of different contexts

Hunky Men

Tom Daley

(diving; fun; sexy posing; bronze Olympic medal)

Tom Daley posing for “Fabulous” magazine

Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield – Synchronized Diving

Other

Hunks

Information

“Time” magazine”s “The Protester” generically “Person of the Year”

Natural World

Green Shoots about Water at Langdon Beck, Northumberland

Green Shoots about Water at West Fork, Indiana

Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar

Curved Trees in a forest in north west Poland

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous ‘Vitruvian Man’

Balloons in Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey

Geology

Thor’s Well or “the gates of the dungeon”, Cape Perpetua, Oregon

Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park

Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand

Weather

Morning Glory, clouds in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia

Plants and

Insects

Scarlet Mormon Butterfly Benalmadena Spain

Ice formations hang on trees at the Unteres Odertal National Park, Schwedt, Germany

People

Normally only one picture of each person is shown unless he or she appears in more than one web page. In many cases just one photo represents several of their kind; the list you’ll see by hovering the cursor over each picture are all on the same web page.

Authors of Fiction

& Masterpieces