View allAll Photos Tagged :
A view from the beach in Jachenau towards the Fahrenbergkopf and Herzogstand mountain peaks.
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Cotopaxi is on the right (5,897 m / 19,347 ft);
Chimborazo is in the middle (6,263 m / 20,547 ft);
El Altar is on the left (5,319 m / 17,451 ft).
In fact, the valley owns eight volcanoes inside, one the reasons Alexander von Humboldt named the region "Avenue of Volcanoes".
When many think of Ecuador, we often think of Galapagos and the equator, but it’s not always the case that Ecuador is thought of in tandem with the majestic Avenue of the Volcanoes that it sits along. That’s right, Ecuador is full-on Volcano Country! But fear not, for this does not by any means detract from how impressively safe the country is to visit! If anything, it adds tremendously to the overall geographic and scenic beauty that’s found throughout. Ecuador is home to 47 volcanoes in total (both active and extinct), with 15 in volcanoes Galapagos and 32 on the mainland.
The small country is the third in number of volcanoes, it only loses to the continent countries, USA and Russia, but it does not lose in altitude, the highest in the world.
***
With its elevation of 5,023 metres (16,480 ft), Tungurahua just over tops the snow line (about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft)).
Tungurahua's top is snow-covered and did feature a small summit glacier which melted away after the increase of volcanic activity in 1999.
***
The Garganta de Fogo Volcano, its crater ...
It has a 183 meters/600 feet wide crater.
Most of the volcano is covered by snow.
***
*Got my fourth 1,000 faves on September 13th, 2020.
My first view of the Avenue of the Volcanoes at 6:52 am (a 4h58m climb) from the Refugio (Hut).
There are several volcanoes, but the most striking are the Chimborazo on your right (I will climb it tomorrow), the highest in the world and Cotopaxi, the second highest volcano in Ecuador (I climbed it in the first 24 hours).
***
Climbing an active volcano is complicated.
The crater is just below me. It took years for the Ecuadorian government to release climbing permits.
Me knowing the risks and signing the papers. It is a great pleasure for Pachamama to accept me, agradiseyki.
***
Tungurahua 5,023 metres (16,480 ft) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes of central Ecuador, 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of the capital Quito.
Nearby notable mountains are Chimborazo (6,310 metres (20,700 ft)) and El Altar (5,319 metres (17,451 ft)). It rises above the small thermal springs town of Baños de Agua Santa (1,800 metres (5,900 ft)) which is located at its foot 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the north.
Other nearby towns are Ambato (30 kilometres (19 mi) to the northwest), Baños and Riobamba (30 kilometres (19 mi) to the southwest).
Tungurahua is part of the Sangay National Park.
London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Underground | Tokyo, Japan | Black And White Photography
TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM
Lancôme Christmas Tree St Pancras International - London, UK
...especially if you're a field mouse or other small critter.
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Kensington Metropark, Michigan
HWW
London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Underground | Tokyo, Japan | Black And White Photography
TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM
Christmas illuminations - Regent Street, London, UK
London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Underground | Tokyo, Japan | Black And White Photography
TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM
Liberty's - London, UK
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron
apologies to my friends for i haven't been
around much this week,
been weathering a nasty stomach virus,
i promise to catch-up today!
happy sliderssunday!
♥
London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Underground | Tokyo, Japan | Black And White Photography
TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM
South Quay - Canary Wharf, London, UK
La ronde des flamants
____________________________
Désert Sud Lipez - Bolivie / Southern Lipez desert - Bolivia
I mucked up the left hand image trying to get between passing trucks. I beat the a6000 auto focus again!
DSC04333_34 ICE stitch
9433pix wide!
The ICE software blended the out of focus, #unsharp, image on IG, with the sharp image of the centre silo!
I will have to revisit this another day and be more careful!
I think the camera focused on the bushes and barbed wire fence in the foreground....
Now hear the song, I just heard on Macca..
youtu.be/tO2VqG8jQN0?si=ubNh9aUv5hLBlMlb
The IG shot by Troggonk is the photo I took with the iPhone to get the location!
I don't know if they contain chemicals or water!
An informative note from flic.kr/p/2hAYcLq
There are tonnes of sites on the internet, and here is one, this from a newspaper about a new silo recently painted. We were close to this but missed it, apparently, and it’s a beauty by the looks.
www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6288479/nullawil-the-l...
If you look at all the current sites they are in every state so to see them all, you have to travel many thousands of miles,
See a map and trail of silo art to follow..
www.australiansiloarttrail.com/new-south-wales-silo-art-l...
Collage from 3 photos of fading purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) in late summer. The still beautifully colored flowers become paler and slowly turn into small sculptures.
An interesting and beautiful process to follow.
Collage uit 3 foto's van een uitgebloeide paarse-rode zonnehoed (Echinacea purpurea) tijdens de late zomer eind augustus tot eind september. De nog steeds attractief gekleurde bloemen worden bleker en veranderen langzaam in kleine sculpturen.
Een interessant en mooi proces om te volgen.
Deze opname is gemaakt in de Europese volière van zorgboerderij Passiflorahoeve bij Harskamp op de Veluwe.
____________________________
All rights reserved. Copyright © Martien Uiterweerd (Foto Martien). All my images are protected under international authors copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without my written explicit permission.
____________________________
.
.
Copyright © Vincent Ting Photography. All rights reserved. Please don't use without my permission
Welcome visit my Getty Images |Adobe stock| instagram | Facebook
After a massive star exploded, it left behind this supernova remnant observed by Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (red, green and blue) show multimillion-degree gas and the blast wave from the supernova. The light brown region in the upper right of the remnant is a dense cloud of gas and dust that reflects optical light detected by Hubble.
This image is part of a collection of archiveed images made by “astronomy artist” Judy Schmidt, to help recognize #ArchivesMonth. All of the objects in this new archive collection are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, which is a small satellite galaxy to Milky Way.
This year, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates its 20th year in space exploring the extreme universe.
Image credit: Enhanced Image by Judy Schmidt (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/CXC/SAO & NASA/STScI.
More about Chandra's 20th Anniversary
The beauty of the Val Lamartinien near Mâcon has been celebrated by the poet Lamartine who spent part of his life there.
Its charm is at its peak in autumn with the beautiful colors that the landscape takes, especially with the vineyard.
Here is a good example: the gold of the vines under the sun composes a marvelous foreground for the splendid Chapelle des Moines from Berzé, an 11th century Clunysian outpost.
The Rocks of Solutré and Vergisson watch over the horizon.
________________________________________________
L'automne du Val Lamartinien
La beauté du Val Lamartinien à proximité de Mâcon a été célébrée par le poète Lamartine qui y a passé une partie de sa vie.
Son charme est au sommet en automne avec les magnifiques couleurs que prend le paysage, et plus particulièrement pour les vignes.
On en a ici un bon exemple : l'or des vignes sous le soleil compose un merveilleux premier plan pour la superbe Chapelle des Moines de Berzé, avant-poste clunysien du 11ème siècle.
Les Roches de Solutré et Vergisson veillent à l'horizon.
_____________________________
Berzé-La-Ville - Bourgogne du sud - France / Berzé-La-Ville - Southern Burgundy - France
Its a testament to persistence. I live about 45 minutes from this viewpoint, Jonsrud Viewpoint, near Sandy Oregon. Because this is fairly close, and so cool looking, an image form here has been on my list for a long time. And I go, often. Every time a strikeout. This is the first image I have ever posted from here. I have been there about 6 times, and I finally walked away with an image I liked.
This is a tough spot to shoot. It has great fog in the valley in the morning, but sunrises back-lite Mt. Hood. You can shoot a sunset, but then you don't get the fog. You can see this in many of the mages people post from here. They have fog, and good color in the sky, and then they wash out Hood in the processing and it looks horrible. You just can't get it all when you shoot from here unless you let your tripod sit there all day and shoot both. However, then creeps in the third issue. Clouds. If you live in Portland you know, Hood is a cloud magnet. If you want a sunrise with clouds to catch the color, then you often (99.999 percent of the time) loose Hood in those clouds. If you see Hood, you usually have no clouds. To get hood with clouds around her but not obscuring her, you need patience, and tons of it.
So in this image, I opted for the fog. Clouds came in about 10 minutes after I shot this, but they swallowed Hood. Sigh. Not an easy place to shoot.
The last challenge, the right tripod location. You have to get here early to get the primo tripod spot. Here, I had to show up 1.5 hours before sunrise and wait there, to steak out my spot. When I walked away there was about 12 photographers there. I can't imagine how many there would be if the conditions were even more ideal.
So my hat is off to anyone who got the great trifecta- detail on Hood, colored clouds in the sky and fog in the valley. Its a near impossible feat.
Village au coucher du soleil
________________________________
Solutré - Bourgogne du sud - France/ Solutré - Southern Burgundy - France
Sentier panoramique
________________________________
Solutré - Bourgogne du sud - France/ Solutré - Southern Burgundy - France
SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Gabriel Martinelli of Arsenal takes on George Baldock of Sheff United during the Premier League match between Sheffield United and Arsenal FC at Bramall Lane on October 21, 2019 in Sheffield, United Kingdom. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
This Moxeño headdress surprises us for the art that it has been composed.
____________________________
Une coiffe qui décoiffe !
Il s'agit d'une coiffe Moxeño qui nous surprend pour l'art avec laquelle elle est composée.
_____________________________
Musée d'Ethnographie - La Paz - Bolivie / Museum of Ethnography - La Paz - Bolivia
This guy was taking off from Pennington Flash and was struggling to straighten up and looking as though he was caught in a crosswind…Lol
Well folks, I’m slowly coming back on Flickr after a long absence due to ill health, but I’m slowly getting stronger and looking forward to seeing your images and sharing a few of my own once again :-}
Please press L on your keyboard. Thanks for looking 😊