When Leva Slare and her family started making art from pebbles on the beach, they did it just to get out and be creative during the first lockdown in the UK. But they soon realized its therapeutic impact on their mental well-being and turned it into a shared hobby. Their handiwork was so incredibly good that…
PHOTOS: Family Creates Stunning Artwork Using Pebbles, Turning Beach Time Into Wellness Time
Siena International Photo Awards 2022 Winners Released—Featuring Fire, Faces, and Photographer of the Year
We can fully appreciate the anguished expression crossing the face of this 81-year-old Greek woman, Kritsiopi Panayiota, who stands grief-stricken before a hellish backdrop of forest fires on the verge of consuming her home. As the devastating infernos of California’s wildfires in 2020 continue to haunt recent American memory, Grecians recall the worst fires their…
Talented UK Mom Transforms Shabby Garden Into Posh Outdoor Patio Lounge With Pool for Just 60 Pounds
A savvy mom from the U.K. has shared how she transformed her garden and built a stunning outdoor kitchen—for just 60 pounds. Belle Rogers, 41, upcycled old materials left over from renovating her detached five-bed, barn conversion home to create an incredible outdoor space on a shoestring budget. She used extra tiles from her bathroom…
PHOTOS: Man Turns Cow Shed Into ‘Hobbit House’ That Looks Straight Out of Lord of the Rings
October 10, 2022
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Stuart Grant, 89, did not set out to create a “Hobbit House” to live in, but that’s exactly what he did. Interestingly, it all began in the early 1980s in Scotland. The retired woodcutter had temporarily moved into an old cow shed in his garden while renovating a house. No one knew his makeshift home was about…
VIDEO: Photographer Captures Time Lapse of Full Moon Shining Through Arc de Triomphe in Paris
A triumphal achievement in astrophotography came to fruition one clear spring night when Thierry Legault captured this jaw-dropping moment of the full moon gleaming gloriously through the Arc de Triomphe in the heart of Paris. Like a modern-day Stonehenge, the moon aligned perfectly with the monument, hanging just below the great arcades of that magnificent…
PHOTOS: ‘Between Fire and Ice,’ the Incredible Volcanoes and Ice Caves of Kamchatka, Far East Russia
At first glance, it may look like a computer-generated scenery from a fantasy film, but the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East is a living, breathing, erupting landscape as real as the day is long. The 777-mile-long peninsula, spanning from the Pacific Ocean on its east coast to the Sea of Okhotsk on the…
PHOTOS: Photographer Captures Ocean in Its Many Moods: ‘The Luckiest Person in the World’
These jaw-dropping images of ocean waves reveal the true majesty of nature. But behind the glorious shots is a human story of suffering transformed into joy, told by none other than the genius who took them, ocean photographer Ray Collins. “The ocean is all I’ve ever known. I learned many of life’s lessons from the…
Couple Buy Rundown Medieval Castle in Southern France to Raise Family, Embark on Lifetime Restoration Project
On the balmy Caribbean island of Montserrat, Amy, a former British civil servant, and Marc, who was a research scientist in France, met for the first time and fell in love in a tropical paradise. In 2014, they tied the knot. But when it came time to decide where to settle, they eventually chose a place…
VIDEO: Awesome Dad Turns Son’s Drawing of Police BearCat Into Bed Built From Scratch at Home
This dad made his son’s drawing of his dream bed come to life in this impressive police-themed DIY project. Oliver from Overland Park, Kansas, drew a picture of his dream bed—a sheriff’s van fitted with flashing red and blue lights. The kid’s dad got to work and filmed his progress as he put together the…
Cowboy Realist Paints Western Ranch Life in Glorious Oil Color, Tells How He Learned Art, Lived Off Grid
Setting the mood for a cowboy painting, 65-year-old New Mexico artist Tim Cox begins mounting a smoothly primed board on easel, and, paintbrush in hand, applies ever-so-thinly diluted washes of lightly pigmented tones of oil and spirits. This is how a Western realist oil painting starts. He masses-in main shapes first, fuzzy blobs, no details…
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