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Thomatal, Salzburg/Austria
At about 1800 m above sea level
Flowers are grateful motifs. Here is my small collection: flic.kr/s/aHsjeQiori
Alpine Texas has only 5000 residents but it's a great place to visit and a damn good view coming into town. From this point it's about 4 miles to get to the town
Driving down from col de Vars, above Guillestre, the setting sun was breaking through the clouds and shining on a few spots in the valley.
I had to post-process a bit the image to increase the contrast. I chose to make it a bit darker and to keep desaturated colors but to make part of the cloud higlights a bit more yellow and the distant mountains a bit more blue.
Technically, I used the darktable software. I made the top and bottom of the image darker with an exposure filter as well as tone curves. I used a set of contrast equalizers on the mountains and the patches of light to increase the contrast, using a combination of "clarity", "sharpen", and "sharpen and denoise" presets. On the top of the image I also used a contrast equalizer, but this time in "bloom" preset, to decrease the contrast, as well as a "soften" filter. For the colors, I give a slight yellow-green push to the image with a "color correction" filter, I desaturated the top of the image and I pushed the distant mountains and the top of the clouds to the blue. I applied a color correction selecting on pixel intensity to shift only the highlights of the left part of the clouds to the yellow. I used "color zones" to make the blue of the top of the part of the sky darker. And finally, I added some grain, making it more intense in the shadows, to compensate for the varying amount of smoothness created by the different contrast equalizers.
Found this in a cranny of huge rocks in Tenguhara, Glacier Park, Yarisawa Valley. For the record, I didn't jetspray it red. Neither did anyone else, I gather. ;)
An awesome reflection from my recent visit to Italy :)
I absolutely love those rough mountains combined with beautiful nature.
The beauty of this world is available to all those who wish to seek it. A simple concept, symbolized here by my partner who admires a waterfall in the French Alps.
The lust for power (so popular in this period) here counts nothing, rather it is just necessary to have an authentic and motivated soul, and spirit of sacrifice in earning the right spot.
Earth will survive us, all we can do is admire its beauty during our rapid passage. Every minute is precious, let's not waste it.
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The Blue Lakes in the Tasman Valley of the Aoraki/Mt. Cook National Park on New Zealand's South Island are actually green.
The colour change was caused by a change in the supply of water to the lakes from glacial water to rainwater.
Despite this, the views are stunning!
Pulsatilla Halleri, also known as alpine pasque flower. Here flowering in the Arctic Alpine Botanic Garden in Tromsø, Norway.
Not prize- winning, but I was chuffed to get these images of a pair of Alpine Swifts over Scarborough today.
Tibble Fork Trail to Ridge Trail; American Fork Canyon, Utah; May 2018
We dealt with some stretches of muddy trail after a rainy week, but the views of the Alpine Ridge and Timpanogos were spectacular.
A self-portrait from last September when I climbed the Golden Ears mountain (1700 meters) with my brother. It took us 6 hours of steady climbing to reach this spot for sunset... One of my weirdly most vivid memories was about 3 hours into the hike, as we were scrambling across a little sketchy cliff, my brother said, "Well this is Sketch McGetch". For the next 3 hours of climbing, barely a word was spoken between us as we concentrated only on putting one foot in front of the other... Except for the words "Sketch McGetch" playing over and over in my head with every... single... step. Needless to say, that saying soon became the most annoying bane of my existence: "sketch mcgetch... sketch mcgetch... sketch mcgetch... sketch mcgetch..." During the last hour I almost felt ready to throw myself over a cliff from exhaustion and those words continually playing in my head. Next time, remind me to bring music to keep my mind fresh with every step!
Anyhow, we made it to the top with all our camping/camera gear and I was immediately refreshed by the beautiful view in every direction, thus spending the last 2 hours before nightfall running all over the mountain top and shooting photos of the sunset. I already look forward to hiking back there next summer!
Above Route 20 near Rockport. For scale the person on the trail just beyond its dip is an adult.
In Explore July 31, 2023
© Doug Santo
Tioga Lake just outside the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. Mt. Dana to the right.
An Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris) poses on a lichen-covered rock in Solukhumbu, Nepal.
Website: www.ianhearn.com/birds-nepal
A mixed train of ABe 4/4 III's and three loaded log wagons negotiate the S curves below Lago Bianco as it continues its climb towards the summit of the RhB at Ospizio Bernina. The logs are bound for the small lumber yard in Tirano, Italy.
Rhaetian Railway, Bernina Line
RhB ABe 4/4 III #53
Bernina Lagalb, Pontresina, CH
Coyote above the tree line, on Trail Ridge Road. Near the Alpine Visitors Center. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
LA: Pinguicula alpina
EN: Alpine butterwort
DE: Alpen-Fettkraut
HU: Havasi hízóka
A perennial carnivorous little plant.
Eurasian arctic-alpine areas are its home on the northern hemisphere.
The leaves are arranged in a rosette. Their surface is sticky and full of glands that produce digestive enzymes. Little insects landing on their leaves become trapped in the sticky mucous ground and the leaf edges roll toward the center, to bring more glands in contact with the victim.
Bon appétit!
It takes several years before one plant blooms.
In Germany strongly protected.
LA: Rhinanthus alpinus ssp. alpinus
(syn: Rhinanthus pulcher, Rhinanthus riphaeus)
EN: Alpine yellow rattle
DE: Alpen Klappertopf
HU: Alpesi / Havasi kakascímer
A semiparasite plant, as all Rhinanthus species.
Endemic only to Europe's mountains, on mountain meadows.
Walmendinger Horn, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
I can't think of a better place to be right now than up at 12,500' in a remote alpine environment of the beautiful San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado.
It is refreshingly lush everywhere we travel this summer. The weather is a bit tricky this year as the rains are frequent so it is easy to get stuck out there in a lightning storm as I did just before this shot. In a matter of 15 minutes I saw a torrential downpour to a full rainbow that only lasted 20 seconds to dark clouds again.
I just can't get enough of this and find myself thinking about it day and night. Nature is really reaching out to us this summer and I plan on taking full advantage of it!
I posted a few other pictures to my website from our trip,
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