Hawaii, Maui, Bamboo Forest. Design Pics / Monica & Michael Sweet/Monica & Michael Sweet/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: deppacific002945
February. It’s a month of love…and celebration! In February we celebrate candy hearts, black history, and U.S. presidents. We celebrate Chinese New Year, Carnival, Kumbh Mela, and the Lantern Festival. We celebrate athletes at the Superbowl, singers at the Grammy’s, actors at the Oscars and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. We even celebrate our dogs at the Westminister Dog Show.
With all this celebration, comes plenty of pretty fantastic pictures! And not only that, but this month we also were lucky to get new fantastic Hawaii pictures from our partner Design Pics–Pacific Stock. If you’re feeling cold and sick of winter, be sure to check them out. If you’re like most people at the end of February (myself included), all you’re looking forward to is warmer, sunnier, spring weather.
In other news this month, we were shocked (literally) from the very close meteorite that landed outside a small town in Russia. A 5-year-old boy was held hostage for about a week in Alabama, but luckily law enforcement officials rescued him right before his sixth birthday…lucky kid. And sadly on February 1, the beloved three-term mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, passed away due to heart failure.
As we end this month with the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI however, we can say farewell February’s celebrations, and look forward to March, and all things green!
Scroll down to see our highlights from this month, and don’t miss all of our February favorites back at Newscom.
Hawaii, Big Island, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kilauea, Close-Up Of Hot Lava Flowing. Design Pics / Chris Abraham/Chris Abraham/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: deppacific010639
Beyonce performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 3, 2013. JEFF HAYNES/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive719384
An Egyptian man mourn during the funeral of killed Egyptian activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, on February 4, 2013. Saad died in clashes during anti-government protests on February 1, while Guindi, 28, went missing last month after joining protests demanding change on the second anniversary of Egypt’s uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak and then slipped into a coma following days in police custody, according to the health ministry and his party. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour921549
February 4, 2013 – New York, United States: Friend of former New York Mayor, Ed Koch attend his public memorial service held at Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Koch the former Three Term mayor was known for his saying “How’m I doin?” Koch was 88 when he died on February 1. Lorenzo Ciniglio/Polaris/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: polphotos129296
An ethnic Chinese Malaysian arrives at Thean Hock Keong temple, popularly known as Snake Temple, ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Klang outside Kuala Lumpur February 5, 2013. BAZUKI MUHAMMAD/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive721602
4 February 2013 – Midland City, Alabama – Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen answers questions from the media about the close of the hostage crisis during a press conference late Monday night. Jay Hare/Sipa USA/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: sipaphotosthree910774
Green mamba or common mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) at Pure Venom Reptile and Snake Park. Marburg. KwaZulu Natal South Coast.Natal South Africa. Roger de la Harpe / Africa Image/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afrphotos014715
Queen of the 2013 Santa Cruz carnival Soraya Rodriguez performs in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife on February 6, 2013. DESIREE MARTIN/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License it from Newscom.com: afplivefour927301
Biking On Frozen Bow River, Bow Valley, Alberta. Design Pics / Roger Chayer/Roger Chayer/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: depfirstlight003136
Hindu devotees pray as they bathe in the Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Saraswati rivers at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad on February 10, 2013. Tens of millions of Hindus gathered Sunday for a holy bath in India’s sacred river Ganges on the most auspicious day of the world’s largest religious festival. Ash-smeared naked saints led the ritual bathing before dawn, which is said to cleanse pilgrims of their sins, with millions following them into the swirling river waters at the festival site in Allahabad in northern India. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour934404
Two-year-old Azlo, a Dogue de Bordeux, waits in the lobby for his room to be ready at the Hotel Pennsylvania in advance of the Westminster Dog Show in New York, February 10, 2013. CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive730993
February 10, 2013 – Los Angeles, California USA: Rihanna at the 55th Grammy Awards-Arrivals held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Greystar/Polaris/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: polphotos132841
Lightning strikes St Peter’s dome at the Vatican on February 11, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI announced today he will resign as leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics on February 28 because his age prevented him from carrying out his duties — an unprecedented move in the modern history of the Catholic Church. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour938097
A hole in the Chebarkul Lake made by meteor fragments. A meteor shower hit Russia’s Chelyabinsk region on February 15, 2013. Itar-Tass Photos/Newscom. License this from Newscom.com: tassphotoslive419705
Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Reyes walks off the field at the end of their morning work-out session at the team’s MLB baseball spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida February 16, 2013. FRED THORNHILL/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive743060
People release sky lanterns ahead of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in Pingxi, New Taipei city, northern Taiwan, February 17, 2013. Believers gathered to release sky lanterns as a form of prayer for good luck and blessings. The tradition of releasing lanterns began during the Ching Dynasty when bands of outlaws frequently raided villages, forcing local residents to seek refuge in the mountains. The lanterns were signals used by the village watchmen to inform the refugees that their houses were safe again. The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Jie is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the Chinese calendar. PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive744298
A model presents a creation from the Haizhen Wang Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week, February 19, 2013. SUZANNE PLUNKETT/REUTERS/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: rtrlfive748356
Four US Navy F-18 Hornets drop down from the clouds as they prepare to land at Naval Air Station (N.A.S.) Key West February 20, 2013 in Key West, Florida. KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour954039
Carina Vogt of Germany soars through the air during a competition jump in the women’s individual normal hill ski jumping at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, 22 February 2013. Daniel Karmann/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: dpaphotos855315
Robin Roberts, host of Good Morning America, recently returned with a clean bill-of-health after a bone marrow transplant, and also made it just in time for a fabulous appearance at the Oscars. Jennifer Lawrence also dazzled the show with her charm and down-to-earth personality, as she took home the Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook.
Robin Roberts arrives on the red carpet at the 85th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highlands Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 24, 2013. KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: upiphotostwo224457
Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway in the press room during the Oscars at the Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. Z13/ACE Pictures/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: acephotos317940
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