“For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own.”

-Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Photos from Terra Kate, shes_jack, Amanda Mabel, *Seth, boopsie.daisy, b.jacqueline, SuperPipo2010, and amy geliebter

The stunning photographs of space phenomena are the winning pictures of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (UK)‘s Astronomy Photographer of the Year project.

They are showcased together with hundreds of other astronomy photos – including pictures of planets, moons, galaxies, supernovae, and a multitude of other amazing celestial bodies – in the free exhibition of the finalists!

Photos from viewsofthesolarsystem, ttezel, and marcolorenzi70 from the Astrophoto Group pool.

With many narrow alleys, colorful markets, tasty flavors of fresh fruits and seafood, charming people, nifty street vendors, Barcelona is a fascinating city providing endless opportunity for fantastic photos. Above is a selection of photos taken on and in the area of La Rambla, the biggest promenade in the center of the city.

You can find more fascinating photos in a tag search for La Rambla, or visit Barcelona on the world map to take a virtual stroll through the capital of Catalonia.

Photos from Irene Ruscalleda, ancutza*, absent minded | itsaso |, light thru my lens, hypnoscope, and thatianamurillo.

It’s been 10 years today since the tragic events of 9/11. While the Pentagon has been and the World Trade Center is being rebuilt, we remember those who lost their lives and want to honor the heros of September 11, 2001.

Photos from Tim Sklyarov, scx77, khaosproductions, flash-a-holic, mosndup, mudpig, messyrican, and noamgalai.

Flickr Member Jason Powell has done a project called Looking Into the Past: September 11, 2001 to commemorate the events of 9/11.

In the description of each photo Jason includes a link to the original image from 2001. To create the New York City photos, he worked with member Michael Foran who let Jason use his photos from Sept 11, 2001 for this look into the past. Below are Michael’s original photos.

We warmly welcome the National Archives of Norway to the Flickr Commons. Their photo collections cover a big time span from 1860 up until today showing images from private and public archives.

The archives include many unique photos showing many aspects of Norwegian history, including royalty and celebrities, photos of beautiful Norwegian nature and scenery, documentation of industry, historical events like World War II or the Nordic World Ski Championships of 1966, and Norwegian development during the last century.

We invite you to take a look around, and share your tags and comments with the Riksarkivet.

Photos from amycwhitehead, squirrelfood, Giovanni88Ant, Morningdew Photography, Cat’s Ear (John Johnston), LeonRitchie.co.uk, OneliaPG, and Crouchy69.

Hi Ireland! If you are in or around Dublin this Thursday, please join Jake for a Flickr Photowalk beginning at 6pm at the gates of Trinity College.

You can find the whole announcement and RSVP (so we know how much schwag to bring) over at Upcoming.

Photos from féileacán, Fergus Kelly, -BeNnO-, and Darragh Sherwin.

M is for Macaw.

Take a look at the other colorful macaws that can be found in our tag search.

Photos from Pankcho, SARhounds, bleuet / Anne-Marie, Seismic_2000, Dave Womach, lsmartin53, and Today is a good day.

A few weeks ago, Flickr member Joe Stylos, his sister Melissa and their Friend Travers started on a trip to explore the mind-blowing outdoors of Interior Alaska. Home of North America’s highest mountain, the Denali National Park and Preserve covers an area or nearly 9.5 mi². We contacted Joe and asked him to share a little more about this unique experience with us:

"We climbed the Muldrow glacier route on the north side of Denali, starting on June 8th and finishing on July 8th. The first week of the 30 day climb was spent ferrying gear, food and fuel across the tundra. On the 20 mile approach hike from Wonder Lake, we were also joined by my father. This was especially meaningful to me because he gave me the middle name of ‘Denali’ after having climbed the mountain in 1974."

"From there on we were on our own, taking the next twenty days to reach the summit, and three more to get out. We were lucky enough to summit on the 4th of July! During that time there were only two other groups on that side of the mountain. Elevation wise this is one of the tallest climbs in the world, gaining 18,000 feet from the starting point. The route follows the Muldrow Glacier passing two major ice falls, the Lower and the Great. Then we climbed to Karstens ridge, a several mile long knife edge ridge with grades up to 45 degrees. That leads to the Harper Glacier. Our high camp was at 17,000 feet, where we spent four days waiting for a clear day to summit. Overall we were very lucky with the weather, not having any major storms. Travers and myself both took minor crevasse falls but were both able to extract ourselves. — We also triggered a small avalanche on Karstens ridge, but luckily we were not harmed in any way. We wisely found an alternate route for that section. Another interesting part was when we found an old sleeping bag that we think belonged to my dad before it was lost to the wind on his 1974 climb."

The two large photos on top of this phost are Joe’s favorites from his expedition. The first one, “Climbing the Coxcomb” was taken high on Karstens Ridge with the team’s camp visible far below on the ridge. The "Great Ice Fall Panorama" was stitched together of six images taken in the middle of the night on Joe’s first trip through the great ice fall: "That far north the sun never really sets just skims the horizon in a beautiful sunset/rise."

Let Joe take you up to Denali in his Denali set. Photo by photo he recounts the experience with his insightful and enjoyable descriptions that we highly recommend reading.

Photos from Joe Stylos.