Bootpack Photo Co. is a photo blog and image gallery website with a wide focus on all things photography.
Our photo galleries feature travel photos, night-time images, portraits, landscapes and ski & snowboard shots, with our blog featuring regular image updates, photo articles and news.
Our aim is to collect our favourite images in our galleries whilst giving regular photographic updates, musings and news from the world of photography via our blog.
Pete Foster | Posted on Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 7:49PM From snow to spring in six days, the island of Jersey has gone from six foot snow drifts and the worst storm for a generation, to sublime sunshine and warm spring conditions.
All in mid-March.
Bootpack | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 6:00AM 
President Richard Nixon eats at a banquet with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, during his historical week-long visit to China - 28th February 1972.
Photo credit: AP Images
Bootpack | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 5:20AM 
Abraham Lincoln poses for a photograph, or daguerreotype, moments before giving a speech at Copper Union, 27th February 1860:
"The address, in which he articulated his reasons for opposing slavery in the new territories, received wild applause and garnered strong support for his candidacy among New Yorkers."
Photo credit: Mathew Brady
Bootpack | Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 6:05AM 
Victims of the World Trade Center bombing are treated at the scene after an explosion caused the ceiling of a train station to collapse and set raging fires in motion beneath the Twin Towers - 26th February 1993.
Photo credit: Marty Lederhandler
Marty Lederhandler, New York, World Trade Center | Categories: This Day in Photos | Post Permalink Bootpack | Posted on Monday, February 25, 2013 at 5:19AM 
Cassius Clay dodges a punch from the world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston, before going on to shock the boxing world by winning in the seventh round - 25th February 1964.
Photo credit: Picture Alliance
Bootpack | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 8:08AM 
Sachin Tendular celebrates after becoming the first person to score a double century in a One Day International cricket match - 24th February 2010.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Bootpack | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 7:50AM 
The lights from supernova SN 1987a reached Earth on 23rd February 1987.
From Wikipedia:
"It was the closest observed supernova since SN 1604, which occurred in the Milky Way itself...
Its brightness peaked in May with an apparent magnitude of about 3 and slowly declined in the following months. It was the first opportunity for modern astronomers to see a supernova up close and observations have provided much insight into core-collapse supernovae."
Photo credit: NASA
Bootpack | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 6:40AM 
Photo copyright © Oskar Enander
Bootpack | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 5:44AM 
Russian Goalie Vladislav Tretiak stands dejected after the USA ice hockey team completed the famous 'Miracle on Ice' - 22nd February 1980.
The Soviet Union team has dominated world ice hockey since the mid 1950s, winning every world and Olympic championship during that period. Coming into the 1980 winter games at Lake Placid, the USA team consisted of collegiate and amateur players, and were not tipped to beat the mighty Soviets.
After going down 3 - 2 in the second period, the USA fought back to win 4 - 3 with their winning goal being scored in the dying seconds of the game. Sportscaster Al Michaels delivered his now famous commentary with only ten seconds left:
"11 seconds, you've got 10 seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk. Five seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles?! YES!!!"
Photo credit: Joe Lippincott
Bootpack | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 6:37AM 
Photo copyright © Pete Foster
Bootpack | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 5:55AM 
Bullet holes are circled at the back of the stage where the controversial civil rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated, 21st February 1965.
Photo credit: Stanley Wolfson
Bootpack | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 6:25AM 
Photo copyright © Blake Jorgenson
Bootpack | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 6:23AM 
John Glenn climbs intp Friendship 7 at the beginning of Mercury-Atlas 6, the mission that would propel him into space as he became the first American to orbit the Earth - 20th February 1962.
Photo credit: NASA
Bootpack | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 6:05AM 
Photo copyright © Jordan Manley
Bootpack | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 5:43AM 
Darwin, Australia: a giant explosion and plumes of smoke rise from oil tanks bombed by the Japanese - 19th February 1942.
Photo credit: Australian War Memorial
Bootpack | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013 at 1:29PM 
Photo copyright © Grant Gunderson
Bootpack | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013 at 5:32AM 
The 21st Daytona 500, 18th February 1979 - the first Nascar race broadcast on national American television witnesses the now legendary fist fight between Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough, moments after the two leaders had crashed in the closing stages of the race.
Photo credit: From the Other Side of Racing
Bootpack | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 6:36AM 
Photo copyright © Jordan Manley
Bootpack | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 5:59AM 
Kosovo's Albanians celebrate in the centre of the ethnically divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica, on the day that Kosovo declared independence - 17th February 2008.
Photo credit: Reuters / Ognen Teofilovski
Bootpack | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 6:27AM 
Photo copyright © Grant Gunderson
