Flower parade in Holland, a must see

 

Made from flowers in Holland , since 1936!

What began in 1936 as a flower parade has become the oldest and most celebrated ode to blooms in Europe .

Ever since its inception, Zundert in the Netherlands has hosted an annual flower show Bloemencorso, with an average 50,000 visitors descending on the town to look at the brilliant displays.

Creators use dahlias for their breathtaking displays and build gravity defying sculptures.

Let's hope the wind doesn't blow too hard!
The flowers have been meticulously placed to create the giraffes, even down to their eyelids and hair that lines their neck

A roaring good show: The intricate blooms have been manipulated to create this gravity-defying impressive model of a tiger and her cubs

Every float is made from dahlias. This twisting house, which is as high as other apartments, weaves its ways through the narrow streets

Just by using dahlias, volunteers created this show-stopping piece, where a startled antelope flees the clutches of a leopard that gives chase

Udderly brilliant - thee competitors left no detail out - they even included the numbers on the tags on the ears, and what appears to be the inner workings of a milk-processing plant within the cow's body

Something fishy about this: Bloemencorso saw this elaborate fish display, which saw a shoal of fish whirl around each other - even using light-coloured dahlias to shade in the light bouncing off the eyeballs

Each of the competing districts of Zundert - which was the home of Vincent Van Gogh - construct their own entry and compete in the parade, which occurs every first Sunday in September.

According to those behind Bloemencorso, the parade is all the work of dedicated volunteers, who do not profit from the colourful display.

A staggering six to eight million dahlia flowers are used to produce the floats.

 

Bloemencorso began in 1936, and since then has spiralled in popularity, as the small population makes huge efforts to outdo one another so they can create sculptures like his huge organ

Even the meerkats get a mention! The curious animals are brought to life, as creators perfected every inch of the models, even down to their nails and shading on their tails

Out of this world! Every float here is made from petals and, despite being made from such a delicate, tiny structure, take on gigantic proportions which people clamour to see

It's really taken off! Bloemencorso has grown in term of popularity and in the sheer size of the creations, with thousands flocking to the home of Vincent Van Gogh to gasp at the displays

Held on the first Sunday of every September, the quaint town becomes packed with visitors and, on this occasion, a huge rhinoceros made of delicate flowers

Make it snappy! Thousands turn out to Bloemencorso, as hamlets compete with each other to create the most beautiful display - including this sinister-looking fishy creature

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World Nudity For Environment in Amazing Pictures ...!!

 

 

 

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World Nudity For Environment in Amazing Pictures!     Naked volunteers lie on Aletsch glacier, posing for photographer Spencer Tunick as part of an environmental campaign about global warming, on August 18, 2007. The campaign organized by Greenpeace is aimed at drawing attention to melting Alpine glaciers, a clear sign of global warming and man-made climate change according to the organization. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Naked volunteers stand atop Aletsch glacier, posing for photographer Spencer Tunick as part of an environmental campaign about global warming near the mountain resort of Bettmeralp, on August 18, 2007. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Photographer Spencer Tunick (clothed) adjusts nude volunteers before shooting photographs of a group of 100 nudes on a rooftop in Barcelona, northeastern Spain, on June 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Pascual Gorriz) Naked volunteers, numbering around 1700 people, pose for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick in downtown Munich, on June 23, 2012. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle) Thousands of naked people posed at Vienna's Ernst-Happel stadium during a massive photo session with Spencer Tunick, on May 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) Thousands of people pose in the nude for an installation by Spencer Tunick in Zocalo Square in Mexico City, on May 6, 2007. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)   Some of the thousands of volunteers standing naked, embracing in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza during a massive photo session with Spencer Tunick the in the early hours of May 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) Thousands of naked women celebrate in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza at the end of the photo session with photographer Spencer Tunick, on May 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) Thousands of naked volunteers pose for Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo square May 6, 2007. According to the organizers, almost 20,000 people took off their clothes for the photo session. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) Thousands of naked volunteers pose for Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo square, on May 6, 2007. (Reuters/Henry Romero Four-hundred and fifty unclothed women are arrayed on the floor around the information booth in New York's Grand Central Terminal as they are photographed by artist Spencer Tunick as part of a human art installation, on October 26, 2003. The women - all volunteers - arrived at Grand Central at about 3 a.m., stripped off their clothes, and composed their bodies into sculptural shapes and formations meant to imitate streets, buildings and cityscapes. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek) Naked volunteers stand on escalators during New York artist Spencer Tunick's "Be Consumed" installation at Selfridge's department store in London, on April 27, 2003. (Reuters/John Pryke) Naked volunteers pose for Spencer Tunick in the Europarking building in Amsterdam, on June 3, 2007. (Reuters/Koen van Weel) Naked volunteers stand on an "invisible" bridge constructed by for photographer Spencer Tunick for a photoshoot in Amsterdam June 3, 2007. (Reuters/Koen van Weel) Thousands of naked people stand in the Europarking building during a massive photo session with Spencer Tunick in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on June 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga) Naked women on bicycles pose on a bridge during a massive photo session with Spencer Tunick in Amsterdam, on June 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga) Nude models directed by Spencer Tunick hold bottles in a Bourgogne (Burgundy) vineyard near Macon, France, on October 3, 2009, for a giant photograph during an operation with Greenpeace. The event was organized to call attention on the danger of climate change ahead of negotiations on a global climate treaty in Copenhagen. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images) Volunteer participants pose naked inside the Stadschouwburg theatre in Belgium during a photo session with Spencer Tunick in the northern Belgian city of Bruges. (Reuters/Peter Maenhoudt)   Hundreds of naked volunteers pose nude for an installation for Spencer Tunick at the Ehrenhof museum complex in Duesseldorf, Germany, on August 6, 2006. (Volker Hartmann/AFP/Getty Images) Naked volunteers pose for Spencer Tunick in front of the Sydney Opera House, on March 1, 2010. Organizers estimated 5,200 people posed for the early morning nude photo installation titled "Mardi Gras: The Base". (Reuters/Tim Wimborne) Naked volunteers pose for the US photographer Spencer Tunick on the largest glacier in the Alps, Aletsch glacier, in Switzerland, as part of an environmental campaign about global warming near the mountain resort of Bettmeralp, on August 18, 2007. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)       --

 

 

 

 

 

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