DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain Lake

DAILY PHOTO: Log-Loving Creatures of Mysore Zoo

Photograph of a bear taking rest on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a leopard on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a snake in the reptile house of Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a Chimp with a stick at Mysore Zoo

DAILY PHOTO: Bull

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Photograph of a Brahma Bull taken near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Dutch Square, Melaka

Photograph of Stadthuys and Christ Church Melaka (i.e. Dutch Square) in Malacca, Malaysia.
Photograph of Stadthuys and Christ Church Melaka (i.e. Dutch Square) in Malacca, Malaysia.
Closeup photograph of Christ Church Melaka on Dutch Square in Malacca, Malaysia.

DAILY PHOTO: Gates of Lucknow

Photograph of an old city gate in Lucknow, India.
Photograph of the Bailley Guard Gate at Kaiser Bagh in Lucknow, India.
Photograph of a Gate on Husainabad Trust Road near the Chota Imambada in Lucknow.
Gate on Husainabad Trust Road between the Rumi Darwaza and the Chota Imambada.
Photograph of a gate near Shah Najaf Imambara Sher in Lucknow, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Golden Buddha Near Vang Vieng

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Photograph of a Golden Buddha with a backdrop of Karst mountains and blue sky that was taken on the "Blue Lagoon" loop to the west of Vang Vieng, Laos.

DAILY PHOTO: Miniature Taj, Kolkata

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Photograph of the scale-model Taj Mahal at 7 Wonders in the Eco Park of Kolkata, India.

PROMPT: Mars

Daily writing prompt
Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like?

Probably, and life will probably be short and toilsome for quite a while. Short because there’ll be loads of unintended consequence and we will probably learn there are many more aspects of Earth that are consequential to our wellbeing than we ever understood. Toilsome because, as European explorers in Africa thought that everything was trying to kill them, Mars colonists will find that there is not one thing there that wants them alive. Every task involves pushing a boulder uphill.

DAILY PHOTO: Agartala Jaganath Mandir

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Photograph of a pink-topped temple in the Shri Jaganath Mandir Temple complex in Agartala, Tripura, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Garden Statues & Greenery, Kowloon Walled City Park

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Photograph of whimsical statues (chipmunks disguised as pandas) surrounded by greenery in the Kowloon Walled City Park of Hong Kong.