Saturday Scenes

Wikipedia tells us that August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days remaining until the end of the year.

Aren’t you glad to know that?

Here’s our latest selection of Saturday Scenes:

Say hello to the contributors and find out a bit more about their Saturdays by following:

• wolfgang
• biologisvensk
• domr
• hillabean
• arieanna
• akasylvia
• elibrody

You can take part, too! Simply take a photograph on Saturday and tag it on twitter with #satscene – or simply let @akasylvia know that you took a photo! It’s fun to see what everyone else is doing on a Saturday.

On this day in history:

• 1173 Construction begins on the Tower of Pisa.
• 1936 Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1945 US drops the second atomic bomb used in warfare on the city of Nagasaki in Japan.
• 1995 Netscape launches IPO.
• 2006 MySpace reports the sign-up of its 100,000,000th registered user.
• 2008 6 people submit great photographs for Saturday Scenes!

It looks to me like everyone is trying to beat the heat!

Follow these people on twitter to find out more about how they spend their Saturdays:

• XopherRobin
• pewari
• etherius
• wolfgang
• akasylvia
• colinbrooks

Take a photograph on a Saturday and twitter it with the word #satscene and it’ll be added to next week’s collection.

Popquiz: What noted figure of the American Old West was killed in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, on August 2, 1876?

Thankfully, there are no murders in this instalment of Saturday Scenes – everyone looks like they are having lots of fun in the summer sun. Or summer rain if you happen to live on the English coast. Sorry, colinbrooks ;)

Send a nice tweet to this weeks contributors:

• ingridf
• akasylvia
• colinbrooks
• soultravelers3
• elibrody

It’s easy to take part. Simply snap a photograph on a Saturday and then tweet it with #satscene or just let me (akasylvia) know it is there! The following Saturday, your photograph will appear here!

We need even numbers, it looks so much neater. ;)

Join us in our photo travels all around the world on Saturday. Simply take a photograph on a Saturday and twitter it with the word “#satscene” and I’ll find it to add to this list.

And without further ado:

You can follow the contributors on twitter for excellent conversation and some context to the photographs:

• wolfgang
• etherius
• elibrody
• domr
• akasylvia