I came across this amazing project “The week in Pictures”. A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics from politics and current events to celebrity and royalty. I picked up some of the best photos that were published 2013. Hope you will enjoy.
A daring explorer looks like Spiderman as he clambers up a wall – inside an ice cave. Tim Emmett is photographed in the 130ft deep cave at the Mer de Glace Glacier, in Chamonix, France
Picture: Jonathan Griffith/Solent News People look at a large sinkhole on a street after a water pipe broke underneath it in Xi’an, China
Picture: REUTERS Fearless Sam Bie travels around the world in search of the rock crags that will allow him to capture some truly magnificient shots. For his latest project he followed world class climber Alex Chabot to the climbing sites of Gorni Gorge and Arpa Gorge near Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
Picture: SOLENT NEWS A bolt of lightning flashes in an erupting volcano in Japan in this photo taken by German photographer Martin Rietze at Sakurajima volcano, Japan. Sakurajima had been silent for 100 years when there was a huge eruption in 1914 which swallowed up nearby islands and created an isthmus to the mainland, ending its life as an island. Sakurajima’s rumbled into life again in 1955 and has been erupting almost constantly ever since.
Picture: Martin Rietze/National A photographer takes pictures of Fang Jing in a wedding gown next to her husband, surnamed Zhao, as they hang from a cliff during a rock climbing exercise in Liuzhou, China. The couple love outdoor sports and they decided to have their wedding photos taken during rock climbing
Picture: Reuters Andrey Zemlyansky has managed to photograph the moment a dormant volcano erupted for the second time in a year, confirming it is now well and truly active. Brave Andrey, from Russia, was with his wife Liudmila visiting the Kamchatka Peninsula, in East Russia and he was hoping to capture the perfect shot of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano. What he didnt bank on was the volcano erupting while he was taking a shot. The Plosky Tolbachik volcano is now considered to be active again after being dormant for 36 years, when it first erupted in November last year.
Picture: Andrey Zemlyansky/Caters The Milky Way glows bright in the clear Icelandic sky. Photographer Iurie Belegurschi, 30, from Reykjavik, took advantage of the clear sky while taking 15 people on a photo tour around the south of Iceland. The group were hoping to see the Northern Lights, but ended up being treated to an even better sight – an incredibly bright Milky Way.
Picture: Iurie Belegurschi/Caters News John Childs, who lost his home during Hurricane Sandy, commemorates the anniversary of the storm, in Staten Island, New York
Picture: REUTERS/Mike Segar These daring climbers kept their cool as they scaled a frozen waterfall a staggering 7,200 feet up in the Alps. Leading British explorer Kenton Cool, in orange, on Nuit Blanche, Chamonix.
Picture: Jonathan Griffith/Solent News A skydiver freefalling towards Earth managed to photograph a rocket blasting its way towards space. The Delta II rocket, carrying a satellite into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc in California, USA, was snapped by Staff Sgt. Eric Thompson while he was plummeting towards Earth. He perfectly captured the silhouette of a falling instructor and pupil with the rocket blasting off into space behind them in the distance. Staff Sgt. Thompson was the instructor with the 532nd Training Squadron based out of Vandenberg.
Picture: Caters A team of expert cavers and photographers had been exploring caves in the Chongquing province of China – when they were amazed to discover the entrance to a hidden cave that was previously undiscovered. When they entered the cave, they found it was so large there was even a cloud inside it. Photographer and caver Robbie Shone, from Manchester, was part of a team of 15 explorers on a month-long expedition who stumbled across the natural wonder.
Picture: Robbie Shone/ CATERS Retired Japanese Olympic synchronized swimmer Saho Harada poses balletically inside a shoal of tuna
Picture: Kurt Arrigo / Barcroft Media A molotov cocktail explodes in front of Greek riot police during clashes with demonstrators in Athens. Police clashed with protesters in Athens at the end of a huge march sparked by the murder of an anti-fascist musician, allegedly at the hands of a self-confessed neo-Nazi. Protesters were seen hurling petrol bombs at riot police, who responded with tear gas a few hundred metres from the headquarters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
Picture: Aris Messini/AFP/Getty Images Flanked by dolphins, an albino humpback whale swims north off Green Island, Queensland, on the annual migration from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef
Picture: REX FEATURES The planet Kepler-78B, the first known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density, is pictured in an undated artist rendering released by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Picture: REUTERS/David A. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics An artist’s rendering of a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi is building the world’s tallest statue at a cost of almost $340 million in honour of one of the country’s founding fathers, a project he is using to undermine his chief rivals, the Gandhi-Nehru political dynasty. The statue of Patel, who was first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s deputy and his interior minister but often at odds with him, is to be built on a river island in Gujarat, the home state of both Patel and Modi.
Picture: REUTERS/Information Department Gujarat State Lightning strikes the top and to the side of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Picture: BERTRAND KULIK/CATERS Australian snowboarder Steph Magiros poses during a portrait session in Sydney, Australia. Magiros is aiming to qualify for the Australian Winter Olympic Team in snowboard half-pipe for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
Picture: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images The Milky Way lights up the sky just after 3am over Lake McDondald in Glacier National Park, Montana
Picture: AP/Daily Inter Lake, Brenda Ahear People on the edge of the Xiaolangdi reservoir look on as the Yellow River floodwaters are released for the second time since the end of June in Xiaolangdi, in central China’s Henan province.
Picture: AFP Palestinian youths practise their parkour skills in Gaza
Picture: APAimages/Rex Features A wild fire in California has spread across 4700 acres. This photograph was taken from Highway 74 in Mountain Center. At least two buildings were destroyed along with multiple outbuildings as crews struggled with rough terrain and erratic winds to control the blaze
Picture: EPA A man places candles on the crypt of a loved one at a public cemetery as All Saint’s Day is celebrated in Marikina City, Philippines.
Picture: Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images Twin gorillas born in The Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands
Picture: REX/Robin Utrecht These lucky sea lions escaped the jaws of death by inches after a pod of killer whales risked beaching themselves as they chased them up the shore. The young South American sea lion pups had spotted the predatory mammals as they cruised along the coast of Patagonia off the tip of South America
Picture: Pablo Cersosimo/Solent News & Photo Highliner Andy Lewis inches his way across a wire 3,000ft above the ground in Brazil
Picture: Scott Rogers/Caters Larry Gerbrandt braved temperatures of minus 20 degrees and icy winds of up to 40 miles per hour to take this photo of the northern lights seen over the Grundarfjordur Harbour in Iceland
Picture: Larry Gerbrandt / Barcroft Buddhist monks light candles while chanting at Buddhamonthon in Nakorn Pathom province, Thailand
Picture: PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images
