Jeremy Casson - An Architectural and Historical Journey Around Europe
Pictures of the Year: Strange and Unusual
1. A woman takes pictures of art installation "Alice" by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas in the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art in the Andalusian capital of
Seville, southern Spain, April 10, 2013.
REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo
2. A female dog feeds a 10-day-old tiger cub and her puppy at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, China, July 26, 2013. The tigress, who is a first time mother, was
deemed incapable of feeding her young because of insufficient milk production, according to zoo authorities.
REUTERS/Stringer
3. Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, blends himself into the background in front of a shelf lined with comic books as part of a series of performances in
Caracas, November 2, 2013. Liu is known as "the invisible man" for using painted-on camouflage to blend into the backdrops of his photographs.
REUTERS/Jorge Silva
4. A model of a shark is seen in the roof of a house in Oxford, England, October 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
5. A guest poses as he arrives at the Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week, September 20, 2013.
REUTERS/Max Rossi
6. Labourers who work nearby nap on a road as cars drive past in Chongqing Municipality, China, July 23, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
7. Jung Ha-yoon, 2, is pictured in a ceramic container while playing with other children at the traditional sports square during the Royal and Aristocrat's
Traditional Food Festival held at Unhyeon Palace in Seoul, October 1, 2013.
REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool
8. A competitor wearing a kilt and standing on a barrel throws a ball between his legs during the 'brigaball' contest at the 36th Bundanoon Highland Gathering
held in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, April 6, 2013.
REUTERS/David Gray
9. An Indian Muslim devotee, who is on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for Urs, performs a stunt during a procession at Ajmer
in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan, May 11, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
10. A participant attempts to control his craft during the Red Bull Flugtag Russia 2013 competition on the outskirts of Moscow, July 28, 2013. Enthusiasts
competed to fly the longest distance in self-made aircraft in an attempt to win the Flugtag contest.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
12. A woman walks past a poster featuring a cat during the Athens 21st International Cat Show, in Athens, January 27, 2013.
REUTERS/John Kolesidis
13. A radio-controlled Superman plane, flown by designer Otto Dieffenbach, passes the moon during a test flight in San Diego, June 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Mike Blake
14. A couple drinks a cup of latte with their picture printed on top of the milk foam at a Family Mart in Taipei, August 13, 2013.
REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
15. Police and bystanders look at a car which is covered with vegetation after it was left parked at a neighborhood for more than a year, in Chengdu, Sichuan
province, China, October 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
16. Fisherman Ompong Vargas, 39, who wears a facial mask made of fabric to protect his skin from getting darker, holds a fish in his mouth as he searches a net
at Laguna de Bay in Taguig City, Metro Manila, May 24, 2013.
REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo
17. A new nose, grown by surgeons on Xiaolian's forehead, is pictured before being transplanted to replace the original nose, which is infected and deformed, at
a hospital in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, September 24, 2013. Xiaolian, 22, neglected his nasal trauma following a traffic accident on August, 2012. After
several months, the infection had corroded the cartilage of the nose, making it impossible for surgeons to fix it leaving no alternative but to grow a new nose
for replacement. The new nose is grown by placing a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian's forehead, cutting it into the shape of a nose and planting a cartilage
taken from his ribs. The surgeons said that the new nose is in good shape and the transplant surgery could be performed soon.
REUTERS/Stringer
18. A photographer takes pictures of Fang Jing in a wedding gown next to her husband, surnamed Zhao, as they hang from a cliff during a rock climbing exercise
in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, October 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
19. Passengers look at a man not wearing pants, while riding in the subway during the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" in Shanghai, January 13, 2013.
REUTERS/Aly Song
20. A man runs up the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta, August
25, 2013. I
REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
21. A devotee of the Chinese Bang Neow Shrine with two pistols pierced through his cheeks takes part in a street procession during the annual vegetarian festival
in Phuket, Thailand, October 10, 2013.
REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
22. Women dressed as sirens perform from inside a tank at the Sao Paulo Aquarium, September 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
23. An employee dressed in a panda costume talks to a customer during the soft opening of a panda-themed hotel at the foot of Emei Mountain, in
southwest China's Sichuan province, February 25, 2013. According to local media, the hotel is the first panda-themed hotel in the world.
REUTERS/China Daily
24. A woman who drew part of a face on her cheek stands among the crowd at a Halloween party in Wuhan, Hubei province China, October 31, 2013.
REUTERS/China Daily
25. Wolf researcher Werner Freund bites into a deer cadaver next to a Mongolian wolf in an enclosure at Wolfspark Werner Freund, in Merzig in the German
province of Saarland, January 24, 2013.
REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
26. A person in a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur costume runs on the field as young boys play an exhibition match during halftime of the MLS soccer game between
the Los Angeles Galaxy and Seattle Sounders FC in Carson, California, May 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
27. Babies with swim rings are seen in basins at a mother and baby health care center in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, August 3, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
28. Sean Owolo, dressed as the Grim Reaper, and Marius Petrulis, 36, dressed as a chicken, prepare to compete in the ZJ Boarding House Halloween Surf
Contest in Santa Monica, California, October 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
29. A flying sushi service tray known as the "itray", created using miniature remote-controlled helicopter rotor blades, is demonstrated by staff at a "Yo! Sushi"
restaurant in London, June 10, 2013.
REUTERS/Neil Hall
30. People look at a large sinkhole on a street after a water pipe broke underneath it in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, October 27, 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer