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Punta Suárez on Española, Galapagos, Ecuador.
Punta Suárez is one of the only two landing sites on Española, arguably one of the most stunning islands in the Galapagos. Lots of booboes, sea lions to be spotted, but also some very pretty coastline and sea cliffs.
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Pentax K-1, HD Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
Pentax Forums Daily Challenge: January 14, 2018
The West Cliff Railway, or West Cliff Lift, is a funicular railway located in the English seaside resort of Bournemouth. The line serves to link the seaside promenade and beach with the cliff top and the town behind.
The West Cliff Railway was opened in 1908 by Bournemouth Corporation, some four months after the opening of the nearby East Cliff Railway. Like the East Cliff Railway, it was electrically operated from the start, with winding gear situated at the upper station driven by a 25 horsepower (19 kW) winding motor. The line was controlled by a driver at the upper station, assisted by an attendant at the lower station. Wooden-bodied cars were used.
The winding motor was replaced in the 1960s by a 28 horsepower (21 kW) three-phase motor. The cars were also replaced in the 1960s by aluminium-bodied cars intended to be interchangeable across all three of Bournemouth's surviving cliff railways. In 1987 the track was re-laid, and during the 1990s the line was further upgraded with the installation of an electronic control system.
The West Cliff Railway is one of three such cliff railways in Bournemouth, the other two being the East Cliff Railway and the Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway. All three operate betwee
Aren't Gannets magnificent? I'm not very experienced with moving targets so took the opportunity at Bempton to practice. I managed to get a handful of reasonable shots out of several hundred...More practice needed!
Gros Ventre River Valley Near Grand Teton National Park in the Bridger-Teton National Forest east of Kelly, Wyoming
The unique cliff of mountain and deep ocean in the world, along the side of mountain, you can see the tunnel cross the mountain.
iSweep Panorama (4000 x 1077) of Creswell Crags, North Nottinghamshire, on the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire border.
Creswell Crags is a gorge flanked by a pair of opposing limestone cliffs that have been eroded by millions of years of water flow into a series of caves and fissures that have been utilised and inhabited by hominids for 50,000 years - since the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age).
There is evidence of cave dwelling, carvings, paintings and much more.
Located in the northwestern part of Cebu, the Municipality of Tuburan boasts of natural beauties such as this majestic rock formation of marble stones or "Bukid sa marmol" where according to the locals, an enchanted lady, Maria Tang-an resides and believed to have caused many mysterious accidents / deaths to whoever dared remove any chip of marble as take-out souvenirs.
Located on the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument includes the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. The Monument borders Kaibab National Forest to the west and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to the east.
This remote and unspoiled, 280,000-acre Monument is a geologic treasure, containing a variety of diverse landscapes from the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations range from 3,100 to 7,100 feet.
Visitors will enjoy scenic views of towering cliffs and deep canyons. Paria Canyon offers an outstanding three to five day wilderness backpacking experience. The colorful swirls of cross-bedded sandstone in Coyote Buttes are an international hiking destination. There are also opportunities to view wildlife, including California condors. There are two developed campgrounds just outside the Monument: Stateline and White House. Dispersed camping is allowed outside the wilderness area in previously disturbed areas.
A permit is required for hiking in Coyote Buttes North (the Wave), Coyote Buttes South, and for overnight trips within Paria Canyon.
Learn more at: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/vermil...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
Found this at The Needles Viewpoint near The Battery.
Didn't take my Nikons on holiday this year just my little Panasonic TZ70. Shot everything in Jpeg on Intelligent Auto just for the convenience of it. This was not a "photographic" holiday !
Mizen Head, Ireland, 07.08.2010
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Cliff Design Awards today...this one won first place. "I want to thank all the photons that participated"
Despite my absolute love for stormchasing, lightning and severe weather...a simple drive out to the Superstition Mountains before dawn when there is only a bit of rainy clouds in the forecast...can be just as beautiful and inspiring.
I love the awesomeness of a lightning storm. The adrenaline when I'm trying to get to a good spot for a tripod setup.
The morning I took this photograph wasn't like that. It was relaxing. Lazy. Rolling clouds, some rain in the distance...but nothing thrilling or exciting. Yet I ended up having just as much fun as I usually do. I don't believe I have ever been out on the Apache Trail before as the sun comes up. It was magical.
With a day predicted to have rain, you don't even know for sure if the drive out there will reward you with a sunrise because the clouds could definitely block out any light. But not on this day. The clouds kind of rolled in after the sun was up...and the light and shadows were magnificent.
On a total side topic...this was my first day out with the 5D Mark II. I only had a 2gb card because the others I ordered hadn't arrived yet. The RAW size is around 21-25mb, so the card could only hold around 60 images. Since most of the time I shoot six brackets per scene...I only had roughly 10 total shots I could take.
So of course I took my laptop with so I could dump photos to it as the morning progressed. Solution to the problem.
And of course I left the USB cable at home...so I couldn't do anything. Problem remained.
I have to say...it ended up being an interesting experiment. What brackets were actually not worth keeping in exchange for a new scene I just found? Was the new scene better or worse than what I already had? Was I going to cry because I deleted one road shot for another?
I was a nice exercise in self-control. Usually we just fire off millions of shots during a photowalk or excursion like this (and I'm not saying we shouldn't, I certainly wont stop), but it did teach me to take a bit of pause and make absolutely certain this was a shot I wanted.
ON YET ANOTHER NOTE, check out my guest blog post over on Justin Balog's blog, Light as Magic! Thanks for asking me Justin to be a part of your Out the Front Door series...was a blast to write!
(exif: canon eos 5d mark ii, 50mm 1.4, iso100, f/10)
Cliffs, Morning Light. Zion National Park, Utah. October 22, 2012. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Immense cliffs in the Pine Creek Canyon area of Zion National Park.
This was an interesting morning, as much for its place in the sequence of events on this trip to photograph in Utah as for the actual photographic opportunities. I have noticed, and other photographers I've spoken with about this seem to agree to at least some extent, that there is sometimes a sort of "getting up to speed" element to certain types of shooting when you are getting started. I recall mentioning this to one photographer friend in the context of a discussion about the idea that you should always have a clear vision for your photograph before you make it - a theoretical concept that most photographers I know acknowledge to be unrealistic and perhaps even a bad idea. (This is not to say that thinking about what your "capture" may look like as a photograph is unimportant, but rather an acknowledgement that things are often more complex than the simplistic notion suggests and that sometimes we, quite honestly, don't really know for sure which images will work or why.) When the idea of waiting for a really good image before making a photograph came up, I shared the observation that I sometimes have to "prime the pump" but simply starting to make some photographs, even if I'm not convinced that the first ones will be great. (One friend then referred to this as "photographic foreplay." ;-)
The previous day we had driven to St. George, Utah from the San Francisco Bay Area - a LONG drive - and finally stumbled into a motel in St. George close to midnight. (As I recall, the motel advertised something like "The Cheapest Rooms in St. George!") Up in the morning for precisely the free breakfast that you might expect in such a place - I resisted and instead walked across the street to a Starbucks - we left early and headed into Zion. As I recall we did not spend much, if any, time in Zion Canyon, and we were soon heading up the Mount Carmel highway, still having made no photographs. Finally, as we turned a few switchbacks on the initial climb, we saw some interesting light on the cliffs across the canyon, pulled over, got our cameras and lenses and tripods and made some photographs. I'm not sure that any of them were exactly remarkable, but with this first "shoot" (priming the pump) our work was now underway.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Cedar Cliff Mountain, taken from the backporch of one of our homeowner's custom home. What a wonderful view from their deck. During the winter when the leaves have fallen, they can also see Bear Lake. Barbara and I stopped by to visit with them and we all went to the Lake Club for "Italian Night" dinner. Barbara is full Italian and I knew she would enjoy the special theme night.