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See more photos from the eclipse by searching #eclipse and #solareclipse.
The first annular solar eclipse of 2013 took place yesterday. The passage of the moon directly in front of the sun made it appear as though there were a “ring of fire” in the sky.
Instagrammers from Australia and the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean—the only places where the eclipse was visible—shared photos of this spectacular sight.
Yesterday we launched Photos of You, and today we’re highlighting four exceptional portrait photographers. Be sure to visit their feeds for great examples of people in the Instagram community who are taking beautiful portraits and adding the people in them to their photos.
To learn more about Photos of You, check out the Instagram Help Center.
To see more cherry blossoms in bloom visit San Francisco’s Japantown, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kyoto’s Maruyama Park (円山公園) and Tokyo’s Chidorigafuchi (千鳥ヶ淵).
Cherry blossoms are tiny pink and white flowers that bloom en masse and grow from the branches of the Japanese Cherry tree. As many cities around the world celebrate with festivals, picnics under the sakura and flower-viewing parties, Instagrammers around the world are capturing beautiful photographs of the short-lived blossoms.
Want to see more photos? Check out Coachella’s location pages: Coachella, Coachella Music Festival Car Camping, Main Stage, Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival.
Last weekend and again this weekend, music lovers will flock to Indio, California, for three sunny days of music and art at the Coachella Valley Festival (@coachella). This 14-year-old festival draws upwards of 75,000 people to the desert each weekend with a large number of attendees camping on site. To follow along with this weekend’s performances and events, be sure to follow a few of the bands and singers who will be performing:
San Francisco mourns the loss of the iconic tree atop Mt. Davidson: #thatsftree
In cities across the world, certain places become pilgrimage sites for Instagrammers. New York has the Brooklyn Bridge, Los Angeles has Griffith Observatory, and San Francisco had #thatsftree.
The tree, a long-deceased tree atop Mount Davidson, San Francisco’s tallest hill, became a place for the city’s Instagram community to come together. The tree’s pale color and slight lean perfectly framed views of downtown San Francisco or the Sutro Tower atop Twin Peaks. Sadly, the tree came down in unusually strong winds on Sunday night. Many traveled to tree last evening to pay respects.
Can’t get enough photos of cute baby animals born at the world’s zoos? No problem! Follow @zooborns for a daily dose of cute overload.
April 8th is Zoo Lover’s Day, and in celebration we’ve rounded up some of our favorite zoos on Instagram! The term “zoo” was first used as an abbreviated way to describe the Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society of London, also known as the London Zoo, which opened for scientific study in 1828 and to the public in 1847.
Be sure to follow a few of the many zoological parks around the world sharing photographs of newborn animals, daily feedings, playtime with the animals, as well as fascinating facts about wildlife.
For more of Dan Flavin’s works, check out the #DanFlavin hashtag.
Today marks what would have been American minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s 80th birthday. Flavin was a New-York-born artist who used florescent lights to explore how light and color interact with space. His works are still on display in museums and galleries throughout the world, where they’ve become a favorite for Instagrammers due to their bright colors and interesting shadows.
Want to see more photos of Holi? Visit the hashtags #holi and #holi2013.
Today Hindus everywhere celebrated Holi, an annual festival of colors held at the end of winter. In temples, the faithful prayed as colored powder and jets of colored water were sprayed upon them. Thousands of white-clothed revelers in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal took to the streets to throw bright powders and perfumes at each other, and many captured the celebrations on Instagram.
For the best views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, check out the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Walsh Bay Promenade, Circular Quay and Blues Point Reserve location pages.
We celebrate the anniversaries of bridges to honor the ways they connect us: they enable our livelihoods as we commute, they help us escape the hustle and bustle when we need to get away and they greet us with open arms when we return home. They become symbols of towns and cities and, by standing for the places we call home, help us to connect with one another as well.
On March 19th, Sydney, Australia, celebrates the 81st anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1932 to connect the North Shore to the Sydney central business district. The bridge, affectionately known to locals as “the coathanger” for its distinctive shape, supports a six-lane highway, a railway and paths for both pedestrian and bike traffic—and at 160 feet (48.8 meters) wide, it’s one of the widest long-span bridges in the world. Until 1967, it was also Sydney’s tallest building with a maximum height of 440 feet (134 meters) at the top of the arch. The bridge is also a central part of Sydney’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration as the centerpiece of the firework displays.
In honor of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein’s 134th birthday today, we’re exploring the Albert Einstein Memorial located in central Washington, D.C. Known for creating hundreds of bronze sculptures and monuments, Robert Berks based this statue on a bust he sculpted from life at Einstein’s home in 1953. Berks depicted Einstein with papers in his hand and carved three equations into those manuscripts that represent Einstein’s important scientific advances: the theory of general relativity, the photoelectric effect and the equivalence of energy and matter.
To see more Instagrammers interacting with the 4-ton monument of the Nobel Prize-winning genius visit the Albert Einstein Memorial location page on Instagram!
