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The galaxy cutting dramatically across the frame of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a slightly warped dwarf galaxy known as UGC 1281. Seen here from an edge-on perspective, this galaxy lies roughly 18 million light-years away in the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle).
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1447a/
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ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola
Yet another photo of the sunrise over the New York City skyline.
Some of you may think that it looks just like my other sunrise picture, but if you compare the two they're actually pretty different.
The reason is in the way I edited the two images.
The other pic used HDR (high dynamic range), creating a very detailed and crisp image.
Today, I focused more on creating an almost surreal colored sky, the way one of my favorite photographers ( Sam Javanrouh of daily dose of imagery) does.
The result is a much darker and much differently colored image. Regardless of whether it's good or bad, it's is undeniably different.
This is a variation of my previous picture, but with some distortion to make the bridges more dramatic. This is actually what I had in mind from the beginning, but I've been trying to control my urges to make images into something they are not. Like it or not, this is a more distinctive ( if not dramatic ) picture.
Stark volcanic cliffs rising above the San Juan Valley in southwestern Colorado not far from Wolf Creek Pass.
Lamayuru
To some authors, it is most dramatically situated village in India. But, even if you ignore the superlatives, the thing that you can’t deny is the exhilaration of driving in and out of Lamayuru.
Also Lamayuru Monastery is the oldest monastery in Ladakh.
If you are driving from Srinagar, after 40km from Kargil, you will hit a small town Mulbekh, the first sign of transition to Ladakhi Budhism will be visible here. A short ride from Mulbek will take you to 12198ft high Namika La, a windy yet scenic pass. Roughly 40kms Namika La is Fotu La, the highest point on the Srinagar - Leh highway, (13,479ft). Throughout this stretch, you would come across a unique and wired landscape, totally barren, shining bright in sunlight, saw-tooth mountains outlines against the sky. These contours once formed by water, probably by moving glacier, or by rushing stream, but any kind of moisture long disappeared.
From Fotu La to Lamayuru is long decent, which does not end here though. Rather just after Lamayuru, it starts to descent once more – and what a drop!! You would descent 1000m with 6-7km of drive, directly to majestic Indus valley. There are two roads from Lamayuru that drops down to the valley. The upper one goes through a series of hairpin bends, whorls, loops, truck drivers call it Jalibi Bends (formally Hangro Loops). The lower one goes through, same amount of drop but more civilized manner! But, in this road, you would come across a astonishing rock and earth formation, that don’t exist elsewhere in Ladakh. Locally this is called “Moonland” because of it’s out of the world appearance.
Between this two ends, there is this Lamayuru village and monastery. The village standing on a steep hillside, with valley at its bottom, farm products from which sustain the life of the villagers. The flat roofed white colored buildings are almost piled on top of each other, and the whole structure is crowned by a gompa (== monastery in Ladakhi language). Lamayuru the oldest gompas in Ladakh, with a population of around 150 permanent monks resident. It has, in the past, housed up to 400 monks, many of which are now based in gompas in surrounding villages. Lamayuru is host to two annual masked dance festivals, in the second and fifth months of the Tibetan lunar calendar, when all the monks from these surrounding gompas gather together to pray.
The cloud cover made for both a colorful and dramatic sunrise at Long Pine Key, Florida Everglades.
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