Showing posts with label Euroslide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euroslide. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast-Busters!

Never Falter, When It Comes To Malta

When Malta adopts the euro on 1 January, the coastline of the tiny Mediterranean island will get an unexpected boost. New euro coins and notes show Malta to be much bigger than it actually is, because the island is too small for the minting machines to show it on the same scale as other euro zone countries. As a result, Malta, which is only 27km long, is shown to be as large as Corsica, which is 183 km long.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Vertical Rainbow

It's All Downhill From Here, Mate

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

This was a shot that just had to be taken. Those bright colours, those wavy patterns. The slender shadow on the left. Any idea what the shot depicts? It's actually a multi-lane mammoth slide, called the Euroslide. I'd guess it's about 30 metres high and its contours would give anyone an adrenalin rush. This was the tightest frame I could get, incorporating all the numbers, all the colours and as much depth as I could manage.