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The Chubetsu Dam (忠別ダム Chūbetsu damu) is a dam in Biei, Hokkaidō, Japan. The dam was completed in 2006.
Before we visited this place, it rained hard with windy. The fallen leaves that soaked with the rainwater. The weather was still bad with poor lighting condition and raining. However the lovely reflection on the wet surface under the cloudy sky still attracted me to shoot this image.
Head of the Green Snake, I captured this image and focused at the eyes of the snake as if the same way of portrait shooting. I also chose to shoot from low angle in view of its lower jaw.
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.
Batu Bolong Temple is another secret Hindu temple located in Tanah Lot Bali and set on the black stone peninsula with big hole underneath that makes unique panorama. Furthermore, this temple is used by locals to pray same like another temple in Bali, the building still using Balinese architecture.
The lake surrounds Bled Island (Blejski otok). The island has several buildings, the main one being the pilgrimage church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary (Cerkev Marijinega vnebovzetja), built in its current form near the end of the 17th century, and decorated with remains of Gothic frescos from around 1470 in the presbyterium and rich Baroque equipment. The church has a 52 m (171 ft) tower and there is a Baroque stairway from 1655 with 99 stone steps leading up to the building. The church is frequently visited and weddings are held there regularly. Traditionally it is considered good luck for the groom to carry his bride up the steps on the day of their wedding before ringing the bell and making a wish inside the church.
The beautiful sunset over the WestLake, Hangshou with Leifeng Pagoda as background gives Silhouette effect of the unrest visitors on the bridge.
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched
Corn snakes are slender, orange or brownish-yellow snakes with a pattern of large, red blotches outlined in black down their backs. They are native to the eastern United States but are most abundant in Florida and the southeastern U.S.
PEPE ESTUARY WALK, Tairua, Coromandel Peninsula.
Start at the Tairua Information Centre or across the road at the information sign on the Main Road of Tairua. The Pepe Playground is located on the waterfront here. Stroll alongside the estuary for calming views out to the harbour and Tairua Bar beyond. This is a grassed area with no footpath, and there are signs detailing the birdlife found in Paku Bay. The walk continues across the Manaia Causeway Bridge and to the right, past toilets and a freedom camping area opposite Tairua Surf Club. From here, continue past the ancient Pohutukawa trees where one of the oldest Maori artefacts found in New Zealand (now housed at Auckland Museum) was uncovered, on to Tairua Esplanade (more toilets located here). Choose to continue up Paaku if you're feeling energetic or visit the Tairua Ocean Beach before returning to town.
Dubrovnikm Croatia Nicknamed “Pearl of the Adriatic”, is one of the most prominent tourist attractions in Croatia and the Mediterranean. The walled city was built on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages it became the only city-state in the Adriatic to rival Venice and achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th centuries. Dubrovnik is steeped in stunning architecture and sculptural detail, and boasts spectacular churches, monasteries, museums, fountains and the famous walls that surround the old city.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
The Great Wall - Badaling ,Beijing, China. Badaling Great Wall was built in the Ming Dynasty (1505) to occupy a commanding and strategic position for protecting the Juyongguan Pass (Juyongguan section of the Great Wall ) on its south, further protecting the city of Beijing.
Tanah Lot is a rock formation off the Indonesian island of Bali. It is home to the pilgrimage temple Pura Tanah Lot (literally "Tanah Lot temple"), a popular tourist and cultural icon for photography. The two yellowish Penjor and sanggah cucuk hanging on the rock are installed for the most important recurring religious ceremonies.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest predominantly stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk,[A] standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances. It was the tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889, when it was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Uluwatu, Bali - Without a doubt, what makes Uluwatu Temple spectacular is its cliff-top setting at the edge of a plateau 250 feet above the waves of the Indian Ocean. 'Ulu' means the ‘top’ or the ‘tip’ and 'watu' means a ‘stone’ or a ‘rock’ in Balinese.
Jiuzhaigou to me is a paradise of waterscape photography. You don't need really to plan when iis the best timing to visit as I personal it has different theme in all 4 seasons regardless the weather as long as you can stand. The only concern is the crowds of visitors (just packed with people all the time). Jiuzhaigou
is just beautiful!