6 websites to discover stunning images from around the world.

1- One Big Photo
One Big Photo is a site with a simple concept, just show amazing photographs. You can browse scroll through their pictures, browse their 12 categories or use the search bar to find pictures that go from simple to stunning. Users can upload their own pictures to the site but it must be reviewed and accepted before it gets posted. If you enjoy the site's content then you can subscribe to their site and get One Big Photo in your inbox. If you love photography or just incredible pictures then you should take a peek at One Big Photo.

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2- Clik/Hear
Clik/Hear is a multimedia web page from the Palm Beach Post that features compelling stories, stunning images, and amazing videos from around the world. Their extensive collection has six categories; South/Florida, World/Nation, Sports, Lifestyle, Video, and Pictures of the Week. Just browsing through this last category (pictures of the week) can take up a lot of your time due to the sheer volume of photographs on display. If you are a fan of incredible photography, thought provoking stories, and remarkable videos, then take a look at Clik/Hear and be prepared to spend a lot of time browsing around.

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3- Trek Earth

Planet Earth is an amazing place and Trek Earth wants to share it with you. This is a travel themed website that features some of the most amazing photography from all over the world. The sites incredible pictures are searchable by their search bar, by favorites, by category, by theme, and under "statistics" you can search by nation. Trek Earth's 1.1 million images must be seen to be appreciated.  Many of the photographs rival any you will find anywhere. Trek Earth is not only great for travelers, nature lovers and photography buffs but it can be used by foreign language, geography, science and history teachers as well.

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4- All that is Interesting
All that is Interesting is a website that feeds our desire to be amazed by our world. The site contains a large collection of photographs from the web and each photo is captioned explaining the picture. You don't need to look too deep into through their website to find a picture that will capture your attention. The photographs are sorted by categories such as "astounding", "curiosities," and "photography." Teachers will be interested in knowing that other categories include "history", "science", and "art." All that is Interesting is a website worth browsing and may prove to be useful to some educators out there.

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5- Earth Cam
Earth Cam is your window to the world. This very cool website features live web cams giving you a front row seat to cities over the globe. See live shots of Times Square, Florida beaches, the Statue of Liberty, Caribbean Islands, or the Eiffel Tower. You can choose a country from their map and take a look at their wide variety of web cams as well. Earth Cams is an enjoyable way to see the world without the expense.

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6- Beauty in Everything
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then this next website is a site to behold. Beauty in Everything is a site that features hundreds of photographs from Flickr. The subject matter of the photographs is widely varied and consists of people, animals, landscapes, nature, objects, cities and just about anything else. You can scroll through pages of beautiful photographs from today, yesterday, or go to their calendar and pick a date. You are sure to find many pictures that appeal to your sense of beauty.

In Case You Missed it

Just in case you missed it, here is a recap of the last 7 days.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Last Sunday featured one of my all time favorite finds 870,000 vintage pictures of New York City. What a great resource for teachers, history buffs of fans of old photography. Sunday's post also featured the humor site Pleated Jeans and Movie Cutouts site where you can buy card board stand ups of just about anything historical.

Monday, January 21, 2013

On Monday, the site CK-12 was featured and it is an amazing educational site with a huge library of resources for teachers and students. Monday's post also included Pongr, a site for people to share their favorite products and Gentlemint, a site similar to Pinterest but with a more masculine theme.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tuesday's post started with History World, a site that contains historical information about people and places from around the globe. There were two other history related site on Tuesday, both centered around the 1960's. The 1968 Exhibit which was dedicated to the events of '68 and a site remembering the Discount Stores of the 1960's.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Wednesday featured two of my favorite resources from this past week. One was Earth Cams, a site where you can find live web cams from famous and interesting places all over the world. My mid-week post also had a great Denver Post photo blog about the Berlin Wall and there was  Television Tunes a site with a collection of T.V. theme songs.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

On Thursday, the first site shared was Overlap Maps, a cool site that allows you to compare the sizes of nations, states, bodies of waters and objects with each other. There was also 101 Questions, a site where you write a brief reaction to a picture or video and Headslinger, a site where information and news junkies can share their favorite stories with their friends and family.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Friday's post began with the American Civil War Photo Gallery, a site with over 1400 photographs from the Civil War period. There was also another photograph site, Beauty in Everything, which featured the best pictures found on Flickr. Last was the Infographic Directory, a collection of the web's best infographics.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Yesterday began with World War II Pictures in Color, a site that contains over 30,000 pictures from World War II. Saturday's post also shared another hilarious video from the folks at Bad Lip Reading, this one about the recent inauguration. Last was a site called Diagrammr, a site where you can create diagrams by writing sentences.

Berlin Wall, Earth Cams, and TV Theme Songs

I have shared the Denver Post's Photo Blog on multiple occasions. The quality of pictures they share as well as their highly relevant topics make their site one of my all time favorites. In 2009 they published a collection of 73 pictures about the Berlin Wall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Wall's collapse. As with everything published by the Denver Post's photo blog, the pictures are spectacular. I encourage everyone to take sometime to look through this important part of world history at the Denver Post's Photo Blog.

Earth Cam is a cool site that features live web cams from all over the world. See live shots of Times Square, Florida beaches, the Statue of Liberty, Caribbean Islands, or the Eiffel Tower. You can choose a country from their map and take a look at their wide variety of web cams as well. Earth Cams is an enjoyable way to see the world. Foreign language and history teachers should bookmark this site today.

Listening to music can often lead to feelings of nostalgia. A song can send your mind to an event in your past and flood you with the emotions from the memory. Hearing and old television theme song can do the same thing. TV has been a force in our lives for a long time and hearing the opening song to our favorite show can bring us back to earlier and simpler times. Television Tunes is site that contains a library of theme songs from television shows old and new. Head on over and browse through their extensive collection and I am sure you'll find a few theme songs that will bring a smile to your face.