Vladimir Manyuhin: Life after the Apocalypse: New York's Times Square

Russian artists Vladimir Manyuhin takes photographs of modern-day cities around the world, then digitally manipulates them by adding digital decay and overgrowth to depict what they could look like after an apocalypse.

Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square, iconified as "The Crossroads of the World" and the "The Great White Way", is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. According to Travel + Leisure magazine's October 2011 survey, Times Square is the world's most visited tourist attraction, bringing in over 39 million visitors annually.

Before Apocalypse



After Apocalypse (Daytime)



After Apocalypse (Nighttime)

My favourite New Year 2012 photo

Land of the Rising Sun sees the first rising sun of 2012 as it appears above Mount Fuji, seen from an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight which had organized a rising sun observation flight with 137 passengers on New Year's Day.

As observed at Yamanashi prefecture.

Both Nippon and Nihon literally mean "the sun's origin", that is, where the sun originates, and are often translated as the Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Imperial correspondence with Chinese Sui Dynasty and refers to Japan's eastward position relative to China.