The world’s most distinctive and provocative photographs, providing a daily, visual reflection of global events All photos courtesy of Guardian’s centre page Eyewitness spreadTumblr (3.0; @theguardianeyewitness)http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76ue5SVkP1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Black kite birds in India</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Black kite birds fly around people sitting on steps after offering Friday prayers at the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque in New Delhi, India. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Kevin Frayer/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956829013http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956829013Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76s4xM9z31qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Dive in</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">An underwater camera catches Sarah Sjöström of Sweden, fourth in the women’s 100m freestyle final at the European swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Francois Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956696919http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956696919Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76rsoL3YY1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Lighting up time, Jerusalem</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Palestinians decorate an alley of Jerusalem’s old city with lights in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Muhammed Muheisen/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956676708http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956676708Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76rdwPzvf1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Olympians at a stretch</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Child gymnasts aged between four and seven years old stretch themselves on wooden bars at the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China</p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956651033http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956651033Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76r72lWGb1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Behind the scenes at 3 Mills Studio, London</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Actors Meera Syal, Christine Bottomley, Amara Karan and Shaheen Khan wait in between takes for Rafta, Rafta – the first UK Film Council-funded production to begin shooting since the announcement of plans to scrap the body</p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956639298http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956639298Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76qbt105q1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Beijing’s Olympic legacy</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A visitor tries out a speedslide at Asia’s largest water park which has opened in the National Aquatics Centre – better known as the Water Cube – two years after the Beijing Olympics</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: How Hwee Young/EPA </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956585334http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956585334Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76pogYlGU1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Almaden bush races</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">The traditional Australian bush race meeting is almost a thing of the past, but Almaden, a north Queensland town with a population of just 30, has bucked the trend. Amateur jockeys race on stock horses in sprint races, with bettors ‘buying’ the horse for the race at auction</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Brian Cassey/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956543117http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956543117Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76p70kRxn1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Flooding in Pakistan</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A family wades through flood waters in Shah Bela village in Sindh province. Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years have affected 12 million people, according to national disaster officials</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956510949http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/956510949Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6qaary3Sq1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Picasso’s giant dancers at V&A, London</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A painted theatrical cloth, at 10.4 metres (34ft) by 11.7 metres the largest canvas designed by Pablo Picasso, is displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of its autumn exhibition on the Russian impressario Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/912306604http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/912306604Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6qa99cYHf1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Green energy</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A spectacular display of the aurora borealis over Silkeborg, Denmark. The flashes of light are caused by superheated gas in the atmosphere arriving from the sun after a coronal mass ejection, otherwise known as a solar storm</p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/912304228http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/912304228Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mm3dAEzp1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Food and faith, Peru</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">People eat soup during ‘La Porciuncula’, a religious tradition in which Franciscan monks serve food to homeless and poor people at Los Descalzos monastery in Lima, Peru</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Martin Mejia/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902636646http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902636646Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mm25bFAk1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Sun, sea and solidarity</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">An Israeli woman plays with a Palestinian girl on a beach in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, during a weekly visit for children from the West Bank to the seaside</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902634734http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902634734Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mm0kHG8D1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Blue moons</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A composite image of four photographs of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), photographed from the surface of Loch Na Keal, a sea loch on the west coast of Mull, Scotland</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Nick Garbutt/Steve Bloom Images </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902632287http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902632287Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mlzkCkT11qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Monsoon festival celebrations</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Indian college students ride on a decorated swing during monsoon festival celebrations in Amritsar, India</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Altaf Qadri/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902630619http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902630619Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mly6TGRG1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Evacuation from the floods</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A volunteer helps to evacuate people by boat in Nowshera, Pakistan. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 320 people in Pakistan in three days, and affected at least 300,000</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902628471http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/902628471Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6dkxqItUp1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>The big sleep</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A southern elephant seal dozing on the Falklands Islands. The south Atlantic has the largest population of the giant mammals. Males can be 5m long and weigh 3,000kg</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Andy Rouse/Rex Features </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879912170http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879912170Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6dkumYW841qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Afghan national army</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Six of almost 40 soldiers from the Afghan national army who patrol from a US outpost in the Arghandab valley, near Kandahar. The army is largely made up of northerners, who fought the Pashtun-dominated Taliban from the south of the country</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Kevin Frayer/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879906404http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879906404Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6dkr4gtzn1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Divers in the Bahamas</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Divers in the Bahamas in an image from August’s issue of National Geographic</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Wes C Skiles/National Geographic </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879899971http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/879899971Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l67oeiOwCT1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Mad for it</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">Thousands gather in Times Square to watch a screening of the season four premiere of Mad Men, the Emmy award-winning US drama set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Evan Agostini/AP </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/865512546http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/865512546Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l67ocr8LFh1qcy9uko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Mud, glorious mud</h1> <p class="stand-first-alone">A voodoo follower swims in a mud pool during a mass ritual in which thousands sacrifice animals and pray in pools to ask for help with the future and children, at the Plaine du Nord festival in Haiti</p> <p class="stand-first-alone"><em>Photographer: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters </em></p></p>http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/865509933http://theguardianeyewitness.tumblr.com/post/865509933Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400