View allAll Photos Tagged AmazingPhoto
An overthrown pine tree trunk rests quietly along The Fenland Trail in Banff National Park is a 2 km loop trail which follows a wide, dirt path along the banks of 40 Mile Creek. The creek links up with the Vermillion Lakes and to the Bow River.
Visitors at Daisetsuzan Asahidake (大雪山旭岳), they hike to go up the mountain to see closely. There are steam vents at Asahidake. When you walk close to it, the roaring sound came out probably from the boiling water underneath.
A black-billed gull was captured at Eely Point, Wanaka, New Zealand.
The black-billed gull has the undesirable status of being the most threatened gull species in the world.
The black-billed gull is more slender than the red-billed gull, with a longer bill. Breeding adults have a white head, neck, rump, tail and underparts, and pale silver-grey wings and back. The outer primaries are mainly white with white-tipped black margins. A diagnostic white leading edge to the wing shows in flight. The bill and legs are black; during late incubation and hatching the legs become vibrant blood red. The eye is white, and the eye-ring red. Non-breeding adults have a bi-coloured bill, reddish at the base with a black tip and line through the middle.
Pancake Rock, Punakaiki to Hokitika - South Island, New Zealand. It takes a while to make a pancake on the West Coast of New Zealand - 30 million years actually!
The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes.
Part of the Paparoa National Park, the Pancake Rocks are accessed by the easy Pancake Rocks and Blowholes Walk right in the centre of Punakaiki.
Our Lady of the Rocks, Kotor, Montenegro, Balkans - is one of the two islets off the coast of Perast in Bay of Kotor, Montenegro (the other being Sveti Đorđe Island). It is an artificial island created by bulwark of rocks and by sinking old and seized ships loaded with rocks. The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rocks (Italian: Chiesa della Madonna dello Scarpello) is the largest building on the islet; it has a museum attached. There is also a small gift shop close to the church and a navigation light at the western end of the islet.
According to legend, the islet was made over the centuries by Croat local seamen who kept an ancient oath after finding the icon of Madonna and Child on the rock in the sea on July 22, 1452.
Itsukushima (厳島, Itsukushima?) is an island in the Inland Sea of Japan. It is popularly known as Miyajima (宮島, Miyajima?), the Shrine Island. Itsukushima is part of the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture. The island was the town of Miyajima prior to the 2005 merger with Hatsukaichi.
Itsukushima is famous for the Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to records, the shrine was established in the time of Empress Suiko. The warrior-courtier Taira no Kiyomori gave the shrine its present form. In 1555, Mori Motonari defeated Sue Harukata at the Battle of Miyajima. Toyotomi Hideyoshi built a large building, the Senjō-kaku, on a hill above the shrine.
© All rights reserved
The name of the town was derived from the nearby Lake Toya (Toya-ko). Toyako-cho) is a town in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It was formed on March 23, 2006, through the merger of the town of Abuta and the village of Toya. Nature Observation Trail) and the Nishiyama Sanroku Crater Trail. There are also onsen managed by the town of Toyako that offer a view of Lake Toya. There are also a number of hand and foothbaths nearby. Uniquely, large vending machines near the onsen offer spring water that can be taken to be used at home. Surrounding Lake Toya, there are numerous parks each with their own unique character and charm. There are also numerous walking trails along the lake to take a stroll in, such as the Waterfront Forest Lane (Takarada Toyako (????,
The triumphal arch at Volubilis (Morocco) was erected sometime between December 216 and April 217 CE by the council of Volubilis in honour of the emperor Caracalla who bestowed Roman citizenship on its inhabitants and exempted them from paying taxes
From the lower falls to the upper falls is an additional 2 km (1 mile) or 45 minutes. 6 more waterfalls – most notably Stella Falls and Marguerite Falls present themselves. At Marguerite Falls you have two options; to go the lower viewing platform of the upper falls or proceed upwards to a higher view point. You really should experience both as they both offer spectacular views of the roaring cascading thunder. Again, heavy mist and spray at both locations particularly in the spring snow melt (run off ) which reaches a peak the 2nd week in June. Soon you arrive at a junction for the Upper Falls, with the trail to the left going to a Waterfall Lookout and the trail to the right going to Johnston Canyon’s Upper Falls. Plan on going to both, as they are both impressive.
The Upper Falls drop 40 meters into a deep plunge pool, making a truly dramatic sight at the culmination of your hike through the canyon. As you emerge from the lower canyon, through the forest, you’re likely to hear the rush of water before you arrive. If you’re looking for a unique perspective on the Upper Falls, try to find the ‘hidden cave’, at the base of the Falls. This unique lookout point can be found by following a path to the right just before you arrive at the first railing that signals the Upper Falls. In winter, this part of the canyon is incredible, as the Upper Falls freeze over, creating an epic wall of ice.
This picture frame outside 天都山展望台 located in Okhotsk Ryūhyō Museum 流氷館 allow you to take photo with Lake Ahashiri (網走湖) as well as Ahashiri (網走市) as backdrop.
According to local Maori legend, the Moeraki Boulders are the remains of eel baskets, kumaras, and calabashes that washed onto the shore after the wreck of Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. The rocky shoals that extend out from Matakaea (Shag Point) represent the petrified hull of the canoe, the Maori say, and the nearby rocky promontory represents the body of the captain.
Weighing several tons each, the Moeraki Boulders originally formed about 60 million years ago during the early Paleocene. Some can measure up to nine feet across. For millions of years, the boulders lay buried underground, covered up over time. Slowly, they have emerged as waves wash away the mudstone.
As mesmerizing as the boulders are there is a stunning array of seaweed, invertebrates, shells, bryozoan and ascidians (filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water) and sponges washed up on the beach. A third of the 850 species of seaweed native to Aotearoa, are not found anywhere else in the world.
A different view seen from the hill top behind a Gazebo of Tairua, New Zealand. The vista gave you the view of yachts that separated from the ocean sitting in the inner part as seen in the image.
仙岩村 - 位於江原道寧越郡西面甕亭裡靠海的村子。座落西江邊，三面環海，地形與韓半島相似因而出名，是寧越十景之一。It was a downside of joining tour, you had no control the timing to be on location. I need to be able to capture image regardless whether the lighting is favorable or not. For this beautiful scene, I better show its evening sundown mood and the water calmness and its light contrast.
Nephila clavata, also known as the Joro spider is a member of the golden orb-web spider genus. The spider can be found throughout Japan except Hokkaido, in Korea, Taiwan, China, and more recently, Northeast Georgia in North America. Due to the large size as well as the bright, unique colors of the female Nephila, the spider is well-favored in Japan.
Buffalo Beach, Whitianga. Whitianga is a beach town on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, on the north-eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an excellent base from which to explore the east coast beaches and is a popular destination.