National Geographic’s Most Amazing Photos Of 2011

National Geographic is holding their 2011 Photo Contest right now, and a bunch of the pictures are already online and surprise! They’re ridiculously amazing. As in, borderline ‘too good for a random internet post’ amazing.  

Below, here’s a brief sampling of the phenomenal photos submitted so far:

1. “New Orleans Streetcar”

New Orleans, Louisiana / Photo by Don Chamblee

2. “Is He Still There?!”

The Big Island, Hawaii / Photo by Lorenzo Menendez

3. “Landscape In The Rain”

Bergueda, Catalonia, Spain / Photo by Mihaly Attila

4. “Confronting”

Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico / Photo by David Litchfield

5. “Lone Tree Yellowstone”

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming / Photo by Anita Erdmann

6. “Falling Leaves”

Bruges, Belgium / Photo by Mandy Michels

7. “The Golden Gate”

San Francisco, California / Photo by Reuben Cornel

8. “The Cloud”

Aquila Safari Park, South Africa / Photo by Dmitry Gorilovskiy

9. “Love Of Parents”

Atka Bay, Antarctica / Photo by Claus Possberg

10. “Atacama Sunset”

Salar de Atacama, Chile / Photo by Magdalena Rakita

View the contest in its overwhelming entirety at National Geographic. Seriously, do it.

In conclusion – just a great job all around, humans and Earth.

Condura Skyway Marathon 2011Experience

Last Sunday, woke up early to hit the road for my first Condura Skyway Marathon: A Run for the Dolphins.
I and my friends joined the 10K category. I have to be absolutely truth­ful, I don’t, for one sec­ond con­sider myself a run­ner of more than 500 meters. How­ever I gave myself a goal and I was going to accom­plish that and  I'm proud to say that  I did it! Ooh Yeah:)

At the start of the race, a 10-minute group warm up were executed amongst all participant. We had jumping jacks and stretching exercises to prevent cramps and maintain our stamina  Here are some pictures I've taken (while running of course) during the Condura event.

Happy Feet

Bhoy Runners Runner was there!

 

Ready..Set..Go!

Passed by this Coffee Shop with an interesting name while running

The view from Skyway

I heart this picture:)

Breaking Dawn

the only way to get bet­ter at some­thing is to do it all the time;)

To become a bet­ter runner is to just go out there and expe­ri­ence run­ning

Condura runners

excuse me :P

a view to a kill

one sexy runner

almost there..

Strike a pose

FTW!

 

 

 

 

 

presenting the condura cheerios

Finish Line!!

Congrats finishers :)

What I took away from this experience is that I have to give run­ners a lot more credit than what I have given them in the past. It's easy to push your­self when you are with a team of peo­ple. I also learned how to pace myself, breath prop­erly, and put myself in a bet­ter mindset.  Over­all, It was truly a per­sonal accom­plish­ment and an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence. Looking forward for my next race:)