GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Mr Kio is back at the Geneva Motor Show, shooting cars for GenevaLunch. Fifty of his beautiful shots from the 2012 show’s opening day Thursday 8 March are now in an album for you. Colour, rich and deep and luscious, marks Europe’s new cars. A sneak preview before you go to the show, in Mr Kio’s album on GenevaLunch.
Philippe Tabouriech, Geneva photographer, has put together a beautiful collection of women, the hostesses, at the show.
The French transport ministry said Monday 4 April that it should be possible to identify several of the bodies in the large part of the plane which has been found in the sea off Brazil’s coast. The fourth search for the plane that went missing mysteriously 1 June 2009 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, turned up a large and intact part of the aircraft body over the weekend, putting to rest theories that perhaps the plane had exploded.
The crash killed 228 people and the black boxes were never found, but officials are now hopeful they might be uncovered.
Links to other sites: Le Monde (Fre) with initial photos, Reuters
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in North Wales had an extra dose of attention Thursday when Britain’s Prince William came with his bride-to-be Kate Middleton to help with the naming ceremony for a new lifeboat. The outing for the couple was the first official one for the prince’s fiancee and cameras went to work on what promises to be the first of a deluge of royal photos in 2011. Photo album, The Globe & Mail, Canada
Christchurch in New Zealand is the scene of at least 65 deaths following a series of tremors around the city that began around noon Monday 21 February. Buildings have collapsed and emergency services are overwhelmed trying to dig out people trapped under rubble. The largest tremor appears to have hit at 12:51, magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale, according to GeoNet, which records tremors, and 6.3 according to local measurements.
The cathedral has been badly damaged, according to local reports, and some buildings have collapsed. The largest tremor was centred 20 km southeast of the city, with several others 5-10km southeast of Christchurch.
The city suffered considerable damage in September 2010 from a 7.0 earthquake.
Links to other sites: Geonet, NZ Herald, Reuters
Links to videos: NZ Herald rocks tumble from Sumner cliff, NZ Herald/AP, city centre Christchurch raw footage
Aerial photos, NZ Herald
Geneva, "crowning glory", trees in winter (photo ©2011 Rohit Acharya, (http://flickr.com/rhohit)
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The winter face of Geneva is showing, and if that brings to mind only gray skies, try looking up at the trees.
Photographer Rohit Acharya has put together an album of Geneva’s trees in winters, showing another face of the city’s beauty, in “Life after death”.
Autumn colours near Lussy, canton Vaud, farmers's fields
Classic cars in Morges, October 2010
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The latest additions to the GenevaLunch photos albums are autumn colours near Morges, canton Vaud, in the fields and forests around the village of Lussy, by editor Ellen Wallace, and, from Mr Kio on flickr, an additional 14 spectacular photos of the classic cars meet-up in Morges in October that pulled in thousands of fans of beautiful automobiles, bringing to 61 the number of images from the event (Jared Bloch is the photographer of the first batch).
GenevaLunch now has 91 photo albums with images by some 20 photographers that show many views of life in the Lake Geneva region.
Title: How Geneva has grown!
Location: Geneva, Maison Tavel
Link out: Click here
Description: “Comment Geneve a grandi!”, with photos from the Centre d’iconographie genevoise. Free. Closed 24, 25 December and 31 December, 1 January.
Start Date: 2009-04-02
End Date: 2010-03-21
China’s reputation for fantastic fireworks and extravaganza shows, which found a worldwide audience during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, was upheld Thursday evening during national day celebrations 1 October in Beijing to mark 60 years of Communism. The show can be viewed in a series of photos and videos on Chinese television, CCTV.
Part of a Google street view of Geneva's rue du Rhone, faces blurred in line with Swiss privacy laws
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Google maps, the application from internet giant Google, just released a new version of its maps application that includes street views, seamless 360° views of the centre of most Swiss cities. Taken by vans that cruised around the city centre taking countless photographs, the project has caused concern around the world because of the implicatons for privacy.
Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister and fitness fanatic, is unlikely to have a lot of immediate competition from other world leaders as poster boys showing off the results of their exercise regimes. Putin, in a series of photos and television footage released this week, is seen topless with rippling muscles on horseback, swimming and doing a powerful butterfly stroke and – a special bonus for his gentler admirers – fondly feeding a horse. The gallery of photos shows him visiting Tuva, Siberia during his holidays. Times, UK and Novosti photo gallery
US President Barack Obama has provoked the ire of Amnesty International and civil liberties groups by saying he has stopped the planned 28 May release of photos showing US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama said (BBC video) that the photos are not as sensational as those seen at Abu Ghraib in Iraq but they do not conform to acceptable behaviour in the army manual. However, he noted, the cases of abuse have been dealt with by the military and there is “no benefit” to be gained by releasing them, a change from his earlier stance.
