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Le désert du Thar — appelé aussi le Grand Désert indien ou Mârusthali, le Pays de la mort — est un désert qui s'étend dans l'État du Rajasthan, au nord-ouest de l'Inde. Au Pakistan, il est appelé désert du Cholistan. C'est le septième désert dans l'ordre de la superficie (200 000 km²). Il est encadré par l'Indus à l'ouest et la chaîne des Ârâvalli à l'est. Plus qu'un véritable désert, il s'agit en fait d'une étendue steppique où on rencontre une végétation très clairsemée dont seules les dunes suffisamment étendues sont dépourvues.
Il reçoit moins de 200 mm d'eau par an. Ses villes principales sont Bîkâner et Jaisalmer. Malgré ces conditions de vie extrêmes, la vie est présente dans le désert. Parmi les mammifères, on note l'antilope pallas (Antilope cervicapra), la chinkara ou gazelle d'Arabie (Gazella bennettii), le lynx caracal (Felis caracal) et le renard du désert (Vulpes bengalensis). C'est aussi le désert le plus densément peuplé au monde.
Cette zone est devenue désertique relativement récemment — peut-être entre 2000 av. J.-C. et 1500 av. J.-C. À cette époque le fleuve Ghaggar cesse d'être un cours d'eau important et se perd dans le désert.
Apparently, St Louis Blow Pipe initially made industrial bellows systems for coal-fired furnaces.
I think if I ever have another band, I'll call it "St Louis Blow Pipe". Kinda catchy, don't ya think?
These dragons were just breathtaking. Just had to shoot them..... with my Canon... Another part of the display at the Zoo for their Lantern Festival. More information at the Zoo's website. www.racinezoo.org/
... as Sean would say.
In the olden days if mapmakers wernt sure what was there or thought it dangerous, they would put "here be dragons".
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The Thar Desert also known as the Great Indian Desert is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent and forms a natural boundary running along the border between India and Pakistan. After a very rare heavy rainfall in the desert and the dramatic sunset with warm glowing light makes it even more beautiful.
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A simple, landscape image of tourists watching Strokkur erupting at Geyser in the Golden Circle of Western Iceland.
I have a number of images of Strokkur that I was never really happy with. This, I think, is the best one and captures what the place is really like. It's tricky to get one without people in it so thought I may as well make them a feature.
.. named due to red hue soil, used for making rural homes .. available archival prints up to 8 feet in length.
see more RURAL THAR DESERT images here.
A couple days after my first trip to the desert, another optimistically-romantic and even-younger dude wanted to take me to see some small dunes (the dunes-only shots turned out unphotographable with my crappy film). Small, because the big ones are touristy, and also the small ones were near his village. A very weird evening motorbike ride into the desert to drink terrible whiskey on the dunes, watch the sunset, and get eyeballed suspiciously by his family.
Maybe better in color, while the guy was wearing my turban from Mali that happened to match his t-shirt.
Clearly, the sun has been quite active lately.
Taken with TS-86/460mm SDQ refractor, Nikon D5300 with Nikkor 2x teleconverter, stack of 46 images.
A classic New England sign. Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
And from what Sunset Sailor and Ed Karjala have told me, it was a Portsmouth landmark.
in Jaisalmer, my amorous hotel receptionist invited me to visit his family in the desert for free rather than take the popular, slightly expensive camel-trekking tours. I didn't agree until I found another woman to join.
Amir's parents, who didn't speak a word of English, were very welcoming and his dad in particular seemed pretty sure just how photogenic he was. In retrospect I wish I'd asked for more posed photos.
Well, there used to be a glacier here. A very distinctive view of moraines from a glacier that used to be on the back side of Hoyt Peak in Yellowstone.
A chhatri at Bada Bagh in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan.
Bada Bagh, also called Barabagh, meaning Grand Garden in Hindi, is a set of royal mausoleums or chhatris of the Maharajas of Jaisalmer, beginning with Jai Singh II in 1743 AD.
Located in the Thar Desert, north of Jaisalmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan, overlooking a mango grove is a set of royal chhatri cenotaphs constructed by the Maharajas of the Jaisalmer State in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries CE.