Thursday, January 6, 2011

Convenient Cloud Cover


While exploring the maps application of Bing.com (Microsoft's search engine), I turned on their unique "birds eye" feature over the city of Famagusta. To my surprise, the imagery over the Old Town of Famagusta (on the left side of the above image) is completely clear with the fortification surrounding the city clearly visible, but as you look south of the city (to the right side of the above image) at the ghost town of Varosha (the major tourist city of Cyprus that has been occupied by the Turkish military for the past 35+ years) you can't see a thing because of the bulky white cloud above it and the ominous shadow that it leaves below...

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