Giro: Pictures from Stage 19

SHOOT: Some great shots.

clipped from www.astana-cyclingteam.com Time and real estate were running out and Di Luca knew it.  With 26-seconds to make up he had to attack or be content to sit in second place.   But not knowing the word “quit,” the tenacious Italian attacked but Menchov was quickly on his wheel.  Basso broke away again, soon followed by Sastre, while Gilberto Simoni (Serramenti-Diquigiovanni) and Garzelli attacked too.  Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, and Dani Navarro were all with the Maglia Rosa group, and just behind were Yaroslav Popovych and Jani Brajkovic.  At 5km to go Sastre left Basso and headed for the home stretch, while behind them the race blew apart.  Pellizotti bridged up to teammate Basso but kept riding past in order to secure the bonus points for second place and keep his podium position ahead of Sastre.  Di Luca continued to attack over and over, but Menchov responded each and every time, patiently marking the Italian rider and finishing just behind him in 4th, the race lead still his since the time trial on stage 12.

Sunset from KILIMANJARO

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New York Times launches Lens - a photojournalism blog

SHOOT: Not sure if this is much of an improvement on my blog, AMBIENT LIGHT. http://ambientl.blogspot.com/

In time, we hope it will also become the center of a community of readers who are not just interested in photojournalism — in the broadest sense of visually chronicling the world around us — but actively involved in some way or other, whether professionally or informally. You can expect us to ask you for your photos on some topical subject or theme.

clipped from lens.blogs.nytimes.com The New York Times introduces Lens, a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting: in photographs, videos, audio slide shows and any other medium that fits — our format. Lens will be a showcase for the work of Times photographers, but it will also highlight the best images from other newspapers, magazines, news organizations and picture agencies, and from around the Web. It will point readers in the direction of important books, galleries and museum exhibitions. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.

The Sexiest Woman in the World Right Now Is...Elle Liverachi [PICTURES]

SHOOT: Some eye candy after a hard day in the office.

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Lance's day off [TWITTERPIC]

SHOOT: The Giro guys had a rest day today which means they didn't kill themselves on the bike racing, but still went out for a ride. Lance is kitted out in Livestrong gear fingertips to toe. Looks kinda warm but he may be wearing some of those muscle stabilising materials for all I know.

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Giro: Stage 8 Pictures + Video

SHOOT: Some great shots here.

clipped from www.cyclingfans.com Lance Talks Before Stage 8 (01:40) Stage 8 final kilometer (05:42) Interview with Johan Bruyneel (02:40)

Giro [PICTURES]

SHOOT: Some nice shots.

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Reuter's Best Pics of Today

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clipped from www.reuters.com Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 and 1904 have been part of the museum's collection since 1948 when they where purchased from Dr William Broad.

Python caught in midst of immovable feast [PICTURE]

SHOOT: Looks like the skin around the snake's head has broken loose.

clipped from www.biology-blog.com Immovable feast ... an over-full python became stuck in the middle of a Malaysian road after swallowing a pregnant sheep / Reuters Little bloating after a big meal is an occupational hazard for pythons. But this unfortunate creature found itself unable to slink away and sleep it off. In fact, after swallowing a pregnant sheep, it couldn't move at all. Firemen in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor, about 190km east of Kuala Lumpur, easily caught it after it was spotted on a road. Conservationists were yesterday still deciding whether to keep the 90kg snake in a zoo or release it back into the wild.

The Truth is Out There [HUBBLE PHOTOS]

SHOOT: Incredible pictures of reality.

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Santa Barbara Fire PICTURES

SHOOT: These firemen really have their work cut out.

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