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The Big Jump by c72 on Flickr.

Pushing the Limits. Just wanted to do something different this time. Technique: cross processing with a little color bleaching — fully inspired by analog film. It took quite some time to get this lofi sun bleached look, but it worked out nicely (i think). Note: this is not a collage. Real photo, real jump. These guys jumped about 10 meters down into the water. Pow!

One of seven Merit winners, by Lucia Griggi. “Taken at Cloud Break at an outer reef in Fiji, a surfer duck dives his board to clear the rolling waves of the raw ocean.” (© Lucia Griggi/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest) (via Winners of the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)

Beach form Brighton’s Big Wheel by lomokev

Taken from Brighton’s big wheel. I think you get 3-4 revolutions, not a lot of time for your £8.

Taken on a Canon 5D Mark 1.

Indians feed birds from a boat on the River of Yamuna as it is enveloped by winter morning fog in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (via Daily Life Around the GlobePlog Photo Blog)

New Delhi — An Indian man sucks on a hose to pull water as a crowd gathers around a government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply in running water taps. Many areas of the Indian capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises.

SENSE OF PLACE - Swimming in the Rain: My sister in the south of Chile. We are sitting at home next to the fireplace in our southern lake house when it suddenly began to pour uncontrollably. Had to rush into the lake to take this snapshot! (Camila Massu/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest) (via National Geographic Traveler Magazine: 2012 Photo Contest - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Tourists watch as water is discharged at the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River in Jiyuan, China on June 22, 2011. (China Daily/Reuters) (via World Water Day 2012 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Researchers from the University of Miami, Florida have completed the first satellite-tagging study to find out how ecotourism impacts on tiger sharks. Debate rages in the conservation community over whether companies offering shark dives could be harming populations. (via BBC Nature - In pictures: Satellite tagging tiger sharks)

The not so glamorous side of the fashion industry.

Dye is rinsed out of a model’s hair over a garbage bin backstage before the Custo Barcelona Fall/Winter 2012 collection show, Feb. 12, 2012. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) (via A glimpse of fashion week 2012 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)