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Powell Lake is the second largest man-made lake in the United States, located near Page, partially in Arizona and Utah. Late evening, when the sun setting light projects on towering red-rock cliffs and azure blue waters, is an ideal moment for capturing beautiful photographs and memories. Being in this vast area is like being in another world with a skyline unmarred by any signs of civilization, so do not miss this fantastic photographic opportunity.
Hikers and nature lovers stepping into a surreal painting of fascinating geological formations. Shot with a Canon EOS 700D from one of South Sinai's canyons.
Three shot panorama stitched together in Lightroom. Images taken at the Upper Delicate Arch Viewpoint, Arches National Park.
Just moments earlier the skateboarder in the picture was riding down the face of the 15 metre high Wave Rock, a unique geological formation located a few kilometres east of the village of Hyden in the southwest of Western Australia..
The formation owes its shape to weathering and erosion that has undercut the granite cliff and left a rounded overhang. Outside the local area it remained virtually unknown until 1964 when a photograph of it was exhibited in the Kodak International Colour Picture Competition at the New York World Fair. It has since become a national and international attraction.
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Falls looking through the pagoda at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio, Texas.
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The Red Colored Canyon is one of the mesmerizing natural wonders of Sinai,
a geological freak of nature.
A labyrinth of rocks, some about 40 meters. The walls of the canyon, which reach up to sixteen stories, are the most colorful and intriguing rock formations in all of Sinai. The walls are a deep red and we can see more patterns in the rock, which is what gave the canyon its name. Twists and turns are very narrow and absolutely beautiful.
They were created by the erosion of water upon sandstone and limestone. In some places, the deep coloration of rocks gives the canyon walls a prismatic and metallic sheen; in others, the stone is so smooth that it appears soft and billowy. Millions of years ago, the Sinai desert was eventually part of the Red Sea, and nowhere else has the ancient ocean left a more brilliant legacy upon the landscape than at the Colored Canyon.
Shot with a Nikon D5300
The Cheesewring is a short walk (approx. 1½ km the north) across the moor. On a clear day its distinct shape can be seen from most parts of the Minions moor - standing on the edge of the Cheesewring Quarry. Its shape has been the subject of many debates; the result of weather erosion on the granite strata of the moor over many years. From the Cheesewring the views across the Cornish countryside and into Devon are nothing less than stunning on a clear day.
A couple of young ladies take in the view from this magical place. The Cheesewring is just to the left of them...
I am adding here a little more info as it gives another explanation of the name given to the rock formation over to the left of the photo.
A photo of the actual full granite structure is further back in my stream taken as the sun was setting. Thank you so much for visiting my photo stream and I am only too pleased to try my best to get a tiny smidgin of the atmosphere at this place which we found so amazing. We wondered why we were the only ones left till the sun set and a velvet cloak of pure black settled around us due to the cloud cover you see here.
Just outside the village of Minions, on the edge of Bodmin Moor, stands one of Cornwall's most amazing natural rock formations, a granite tor known as Cheesewring. The name derives from the traditional presses used to squeeze all the liquid out of cheese. With some imagination you can convince yourself that the bizarrely shaped layers of granite rocks look like the cheese presses, or 'wrings'.
Cheesewring is, in fact, a natural geological formation of granite slabs, formed by weathering over the course of hundreds of years. Large discs of stones are stacked atop each other in bizarre formations that seem as though they should not be able to stand upright without toppling, but they do. Some of the slabs are up to 30 feet across, and sit atop much smaller rocks.
Jökulsá á Fjöllum river in Northeast Iceland creates three of the most stunning waterfalls in Iceland: Dettifoss - Europe's mightiest waterfall, Selfoss, another beautiful yet small fall and Aldeyarfoss, a wonder of columnar basalt surrounding a waterfall. The river rushes through a mighty gorge which itself is mainly formed by volcanic columnar basalt. The stretch of the river seen in this image is situated between Dettifoss and Selfoss and the bend makes it look even more beautiful.
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This is an awesome hike, but on a cooler side as the water temperature is lower than you expect. So wear a good pair of boots, wool socks, and just plunge into the water and enjoy the fabulous views of high canyon walls surrounding you…. This is a highlight in Zion National Park! Happy Canada Day!
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The Lóndrangar are a pair of rock pinnacles in Iceland. They are volcanic plugs of basalt, that have been hewn out from softer surrounding rock by erosion. At 75 and 61 m tall, they are a singular sight, rising above and outside the ocean front due east across from Malarrif and some 10 km from Hellnar, on the southern coast of Snæfellsnes peninsula.
There are many bird nest s in the steep slopes of the twin towers and birds which can be observed are black-legged kittiwake, common murre, puffin and northern fulmar.
Iceland. March 2017
The Southwest Wildlife Foundation’s Cedar Canyon Nature Park is located in the mouth of Cedar Canyon, east of the green footbridge, south side of Coal Creek Walking Trail. I love this beautiful road leading towards Cedar Breaks National Monument.
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a capture I took on our way from Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon towards Hoefn in Southeast Iceland. Those mighty mountains with their amazing structures and phenomenal twists and bends are so wonderful, I will never tire to admire and photograph them.
Just after exiting the tunnel on the Zion - Mount Carmel Highway, on the drive from Bryce Canyon to Springdale, Utah.
The Organ (foreground) and Tower of Babel (background) formations in the Courthouse Towers area of Arches National Park, Moab, Utah.
It's difficult to appreciate the scale of these features from a photograph but the Organ stands at approximately 500ft tall.
Big Badlands Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA
The Big Badlands Overlook is the first grand view as you enter from the east.
Located in southwestern South Dakota, just to the south of Interstate 90, the Badlands occupy 244,000 acres of a mixed-grass prairie. In a very arid topography, the eroded land is better known for its barren buttes, sharpened pinnacles, and one of the world’s richest fossil beds.
Sunset at Haystack Rock ~ Cannon Beach, Oregon
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/8.0, 78mm, 1/250s
This area of the Grand Canyon South Rim is known as The Abyss and is located on Hermit Road about halfway between Bright Angel Trailhead and Hermit's Rest.
It was really windy at this point and a passing rain storm made for some unpleasant photography conditions.
Natural arch in Port Campbell National Park on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. It was connected to the mainland until 1990 when part of the arch collapsed in to the water below.
The Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga, South Africa, extends for 50kms (31.07 miles) along the lip of the great African escarpment. From the canyon rim guests can look eastwards over the layered rocks of the canyon walls and the Three Rondavels to the Lowveld plain, 1 600 metres below.
It was at this point that the ancient super continent, Gondwanaland, broke apart and Madagascar and Antarctica tore free from Africa some 200 million years ago. The broken edge of the continent was gradually tilted upwards by the weight of a vast shallow sea stretching west to beyond Pretoria.
This sea, already ancient when Gondwanaland was split by these earth-shaping forces, left behind layer upon layer of dolomite and sandstone laid down as sediments over millions of years.
Striped patterns are usually caused by layers of sediment that have accumulated over time.
Beyond the stunning colors, an ongoing reminder of how a natural canyon has recorded the passage of geologic time.
Shot from a narrow passage while hiking one of the most scenic canyons between Nweiba and Saint Catherine.
the utterly mysterious and breathtakingly wild beauty of Fjadrargljufur river canyon near Kirkjujabaerklaustur in South Iceland. The landscape has such an intense sense of archaic to it, you would not be surprised to see some dinosaurs having a sip of water in that river :)
A detail on the sandstone cliff face that borders the path leading into the Amphitheatre, a spectacular rock cavern in Carnarvon Gorge.
For a spectacular wide-angle view of the overall cliff face, see my image No. 420.
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