Photo Thread

**BonnieShels** · 07/12/2010, 11:23 PM

It's just steam from the toilet bowl. Nothing Toilet Duck couldn't sort.

**tetsujin1979** · 11/12/2010, 3:03 PM

from the Independent: http://www.independent.ie/world-news...033.html?ino=5

Russian extreme sports athlete Valery Rozov performs the first ever wingsuit jump from the Ulvetanna, a 2,931-metre high mountain in the Drygalski mountains in east Antarctica. Photo: Reuters

**The Fly** · 11/12/2010, 4:27 PM

It looks like he's just gone splat into a giant windscreen.

**bennocelt** · 31/12/2010, 8:25 PM

Things to do in London town (6 months here!)

London Zoo
(not half as good as Dublin)

London Wetland centre
(lovely despite the roars of jet engines from places heading to Heathrow)

**bennocelt** · 31/12/2010, 8:26 PM

Big Ben

Always good to get some top class football in like................eh..................Hayes

**bennocelt** · 31/12/2010, 8:28 PM

After all that some refreshments

**The Fly** · 06/01/2011, 2:33 PM

http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/expl...2F8-photo.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...er-photography

Here's some pics of the newly discovered mammoth caves in Vietnam. Stunning!!!

A giant cave column swagged in flowstone towers over explorers swimming through the depths of Hang Ken, one of 20 new caves discovered last year in Vietnam.

A climber ascends a shaft of light in Loong Con, where humidity rises into cool air and forms clouds inside the cave.

A half-mile block of 40-story buildings could fit inside this lit stretch of Hang Son Doong, which may be the world's biggest subterranean passage.

**The Fly** · 06/01/2011, 2:36 PM

- continued....

A jungle inside a cave? A roof collapse long ago in Hang Son Doong let in light; plants thickly followed. As "Sweeny" Sewell climbs to the surface, hikers struggle through the wryly named Garden of Edam.

Going underground, expedition members enter Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River. Dwindling to a series of ponds during the dry months, the river can rise almost 300 feet during the flood season, covering the rocks where cavers stand.

Like a petrified waterfall, a cascade of fluted limestone, greened by algae, stops awestruck cavers in their tracks. They're near the exit of Hang En.

**The Fly** · 06/01/2011, 9:46 PM

continued...

In the dry season, from November to April, a caver can safely explore Hang Ken, with its shallow pools. Come the monsoon, the underground river swells and floods the passages, making the cave impassable.

The trickiest challenge for the expedition team was to find a way over the Great Wall of Vietnam, an overhanging mass of flowstone that blocked the way deep inside Hang Son Doong. Climbing specialists "Sweeny" Sewell and Howard Clarke here work on anchoring bolts to the slippery, porous rock to support the weight of climbers using ropes. Once over the wall, the expedition team discovered a second entrance into the cave.

**SkStu** · 11/01/2011, 1:23 AM

Originally Posted by dcfc_1928

Bregagh Road near the village of Armoy, Co. Antrim. Known locally as "The Dark Hedges".

Spooky place. I took this photo a couple of weeks ago.

i was bought an Ireland calendar over Christmas that has an almost identical picture called "The Dark Hedges near Ballymoney" - its taken during a sunny day though. This one is better if you ask me.