PHOTO of the day 2016

December 29, 2016 | sirpatstew | Beefeater! 🏰🇬🇧Catch @NoMansLandPlay LIVE this Thursday.

December 25, 2016 |  White House Christmas Card | petesouzaThis family. What can I say. What an honor to have photographed them for eight years. A couple of months ago, the Social Office came to me and said they were thinking of using a family photo for this year's White House holiday card. So I thought of Justin Trudeau. I know you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. Earlier this year we hosted the Canadian Prime Minister for a formal State Dinner. Malia and Sasha attended as guests. Before the dinner, I did a family photo in the White House residence. But later, when the Trudeaus arrived, the two families spent some time on the Truman Balcony with their respective delegations. At one point, the Prime Minister asked if we could do a photo of he and his wife with the Obama family. Click, click, click. Then, he said I should do a photo of just the Obama's. I could have said, "sir we already did one before you arrived." But instead, I clicked off a few quick frames. And lo and behold, it was this picture that Justin Trudeau asked me to take which everyone loved as the choice for the 2016 White House holiday card.

December 24, 2016 | museeorsay | Dans la nef du musée d'Orsay : "Jeune Gaulois" (1875) de Jean-Baptiste Baujault

December 23, 2016 | museelouvre | C'est la semaine de #Noël ! Visitez le Louvre ce soir en #nocturne jusqu'à 21h45 / This is the #ChristmasWeek! Visit the Louvre tonight until 9.45pm. Léonard de Vinci, La Vierge à l'Enfant avec sainte Anne, Vers 1503 - 1519 / Leonardo Da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, 1503-1519

December 18, 2016 | terrysphots | Can we haz sex with him? #IAmGirl #No #NoWay #AbsolutelyNot #🌟Gay

December 17, 2016 |  tmagazineStop | 9 on our “Elemental Living” weekend takeover: The city of Austin, Texas, and the Edgeland House constructed by @Bercy_Chen_Studio in 2012. It’s a contemporary take on one of the oldest North American dwellings: the Native American pit house. The home is partially sunk into the ground, and was excavated seven feet into the hillside. With its direct connection to the earth it sits beside, the house creates a balance with the landscape — by simply extending it. Photo by Paul Bardagjy.

December 16, 2016 |  thegetty | A sleeping faun has found his way into the museum's entrance hall. . This half-human, half-goat mythological figure is a marble copy of a famous ancient sculpture (which you can see at the Glyptothek in Munich). The one in our entrance hall was made by French sculptor Edme Bouchardon. A retrospective of Bouchardon's work opens at the #GettyMuseum on January 10. . The Sleeping Faun, 1726-30, Edme Bouchardon, marble. Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures, Paris.@museelouvre

December 15, 2016 | eminchilli | Via Della Fontanella Borghese | I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you see an open doorway walk through it. You never know what you may find. #hiddencourtyards #rome

December 14, 2016 |  britishmuseum | The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods travelled through the night sky by boat. This chest ornament, known as a pectoral, was discovered in the grave of a pharaoh. It shows an ancient Egyptian boat called a barque carrying the sun god, Amun-Ra, sailing under a star-filled sky. During festivals, this divine journey was recreated with a procession of boats carrying statues. Some of the most important finds discovered in the lost ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion were a ritual boat and models of sacred barques.