A Chinese Zheng Chunhui got his place in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest wooden craving. His masterpiece is 40 feet long and it's made from a single tree trunk.
The Sony World Photography Awards is an annual photo competition organized by the World Photography Organisation and here are some of these years best entries.
Truly amazing work by the NYC Grid guys creating images composed of two images at the exactly same location only decades or sometimes even century apart.
David Guttenfelder a veteran photojournalist became one of the very first foreign photogs to be allowed to take pictures in North Korea and so we get to see the rare insight of this isolated country.
You certainly don't see these kind of images every day, from tick close up, x-ray of a bat, to a high-tech micrograph of a zebrafish embryo. Check out some of the best images of the year.
As the Hobbit movie just hit the theaters worldwide it's a perfect time for a short retrospective of all the beautiful locations of New Zealand where the Lord of the Rings trilogy was shot.
