cool

criwes:

Ambroise Tézenas (tumblr)

via-appia:

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

mondonoir:

Noé Sendas, Desconocidas Nº2, 2012 [1940], Archival inkjet printing

earthstory:

Vaipō Waterfall

To me this waterfall located on the island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia looks like a scene straight from Lord of the Rings (somewhere close to Rivendel). Although it appears that the horse-tail shaped waterfall does not even touch the ground it drops down a mere 350m, making it the highest waterfall of Polynesia.

Vaipō drops down as a 3m wide single stream from a basalt plateau into a steep, nearly vertical cliff where 550 m tall pinnacles are scattered around. The wet and misty conditions add to the mysterious atmosphere covering the pinnacles in glistering green moss. This place really could be Middle Earth.

-OW-

Image: Yves Picq. Vaipō seems to be dropping into nothingness.

References:
http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/Au/FrenchPolynesia/Marquesas/VaipoFalls.htm
http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/waterfall/Vaipo-Waterfall-83/

jimlovesart:

André Kertész - Shadows of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1929. 

thunderstruck9:

Marta Zamarska, A Railway Impression II, 2008. Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

sowhatifiliveinjapan:

Ellen Rogers - Daphne Descends Look Book