A new perspective can really help when it comes to your outlook. Of course, this phrase can mean your psychological outlook or your literal outlook.
Today, we want to talk about the latter category. The world, when viewed from certain angles or in certain ways, can offer us something more than what might initially meet the eye.
Solar power is an incredible innovation, but to generate it in big amounts, we need big power stations. How big? Well, this one should give you some idea.
You have to feel for breeds that have been selectively bred, as it can really mess up their ability to breathe. Here's an example of a breed in the process of getting selectively...un-bred.
It's funny that she had to put the hair dye on hold, but I'm not focused on that. What I'm focused on is how absolutely massive this bald eagle is.
There's something oddly beautiful about seeing the wreckage from this tornado framed through the screen of a movie theater.
When movie directors want to show extreme detail, the easiest way to do so is to just make a prop that's really big. Case in point: this ring.
It's easy to lose your sense of perspective with really tall buildings, but seeing a couple of humans for scale really shows off the size of this clock tower.
There's something about seeing an actual person in this iconic scene that makes it seem substantial. Before this, it may as well have been a computer rendering.
It's kind of surprising how jarring it is to see something so familiar with its colors completely reversed.
I wonder how much planning went into this pic. Of course, if you're at the right angle, you could see the sun rising behind the tower on any day. But it's only going to rise behind the tower from this particular angle at a certain time of year.
Honestly, given the way this statue rises over Rio, I thought it would look bigger at the top. It looks like Christ's head is no more than 10 or 12 feet tall.
This photo shows nothing more complicated than a puddle on the road, but the reflection gives me vertigo.
Various species of big cat come in melanistic, or all-black, color patterns. This doesn't mean they're common, though. This guy's got perfect camouflage at nighttime.
This really shows just how much a beam of light can influence what we see. If not for the streetlight, you wouldn't even know it was snowing.
When I look at a city skyline, I often think of how many people exist within it. This pic shows one of those people — one of many thousands.
It's a good thing I don't live near an ocean, because after seeing this pic, I never want to swim in salt water ever again.
I sincerely hope this swimmer knew for a fact that this ship wasn't going to start its engines anytime soon. This pic is cool, but makes me super anxious.
It would be helpful if we knew how tall this person is, but still, it does appear that traffic lights are bigger than we might expect.
It's one thing to make a simple drawing in the snow, it's quite another to make one that's hundreds of feet across.
When you watch the bobsled event, it's vaguely impressive, but difficult to appreciate the extreme angles and extreme speeds. Well, here's one such extreme angle.
The United Kingdom isn't known for its mountains, but this pic of Ben Nevis, its tallest peak, looks sufficiently alpine. The two climbers are absolutely dwarfed by their surroundings.
