March 27 Photo Brief: Fashion Week in China, Holy Week and Holi Festival, one big egg, the Golden Gate sees its last toll taker
Fashion Week in China, Holy Week and Holi Festival, one big egg, the Golden Gate sees its last toll taker and more in today’s daily brief.
- An employee of Christie’s auction house poses with a complete sub-fossilized Elephant Bird egg in London during a press preview of their April ‘Travel, Science and Natural History’ sale. This pre-17th century egg of the extinct Elephant Bird, the largest bird ever to have lived, is approximately 100 times larger than the average chicken’s egg and is estimated to fetch 20,000 – 30,000 GBP when it goes on sale on April 24, 2013. (Justin Tallis/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation for the MGPIN collection show by Maogeping Image Design Art School at China Fashion Week in Beijing. The fashion week runs till March 30. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
- A model showcases designs on the catwalk during MGPIN Make-up Styling Collection on the fourth day of Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013/2014 at 751 D.PARK Workshop in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
- Models use an iPad to take a photo backstage before the MGPIN collection show by Maogeping Image Design Art School at China Fashion Week in Beijing. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
- A model presents a creation from the MGPIN Collection during China fashion week in Beijing. Fashion Week entered its third day with local and Asian designers now playing a major role in an event previously dominated by European fashion houses. (Ed Jones/Getty Images)
- Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing the second of two days of arguments on the legality of gay marriage. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
- Toll collector Marilyn Alvarado (R) receives the last toll from Jim Eddie (C), who is driving a vintage 1937 Packard, at her tollbooth at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza in San Francisco, California. The Golden Gate Bridge will convert from manned tollbooths to a full electronic tolling system starting March 27. With the automated system in place, motorists will have the option of using the existing FasTrak electronic toll collection system or the newly implemented pay-by-plate option, according to Golden Gate Bridge management. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)
- A boy smeared with colors reacts as another boy pours water on him during Holi celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colors, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
- Indian Hindu devotees dance and play with colored powder on the side of a road during Holi celebrations in Kolkata. Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/Getty Images)
- Indian revelers cover each other with colored powder during Holi festival celebrations in Guwahati. ‘Holi’, the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India and Nepal at the end of winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. (Biju Boro/Getty Images)
- Indian revellers dance on the street during Holi festival celebrations in Allahabad. ‘Holi’, the Festival of Colors, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India and Nepal at the end of winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
- The feet of a man covered in red coloured powder are pictured during Holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
- An Indian reveler looks on during Holi festival celebrations in Allahabad. ‘Holi’, the Festival of Colors, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India and Nepal at the end of winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
- Penitents of the “El Perdon” brotherhood put incense in a censer as they take part in a procession during Holy Week in Almeria, southeast Spain. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter. (Francisco Bonilla/Reuters)
- Helen Pederson-Keiser clutches the American flag that covered her son’s casket while saluted by Brig. Gen. Christopher K. Haas, commander, U.S. Special Forces Command, during a burial service for her son, U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Pederson-Keel at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Capt. Pederson-Keel was killed on March 11, 2013 while serving in Wardak Province, Afghanistan from injuries sustained when attacked by small arms fire from a man in an Afghan police uniform, according to reports. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
- A man looks out of the window of a public transport bus in Budapest. An unusual spell of cold has engulfed Hungary over the recent days, causing widespread snowfall and some disruptions in traffic. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
- German bicycle designer Didi Senft, also known as “El Diablo”, presents his new bicycle creation in honor of the expected child of Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in the town of Storkow, some 50 km (31 miles) southeast of Berlin. Senft, who has had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for world’s largest bike, has worked some 100 hours on this bike, he said. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
- A man on a chopper-style bicycle rides past the entrance to a construction site for luxury apartments at a 0.8 mile section of the former Berlin Wall, also known as the East Side Gallery, in Berlin. Four segments of the wall were removed on Wednesday morning, almost a month after builders had stopped tearing down the wall due to protests. Developers plan to build luxury apartments close to the East Side Gallery, which is adorned with the work of artists such as Keith Haring and Gerald Scarfe. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
- Chile’s referee Enrique Osses shows the yellow card to Bolivia’s Ronald Raldes during the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup South American qualifier football match against Argentina, at the Hernando Siles stadium in La Paz. (Juan Mabromata/Getty Images)
- Madame Tussauds New York unveils a new wax figure of Britney Spears in New York City. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)