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Looking upstream along the stream that leads to Stórhöfði. You can see the brilliant colours of the volcanic rock. The springs on the slopes above the valley floor are all hot springs — there is a noticeable odour of hydrogen sulphide in the air.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 996.64 MB).
See a larger view of this panorama here:
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Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
We were into the Hopi Indian Reservation in Grand Canyon and took these speed boats on the Colorado River. The water was really milky and there appeared to be quite a bit of erosion at the river banks. In any case, it was a good experience to ride these boats surrounded by the towering canyon walls.
Hovering above the Brandsgil valley, you can really see the brilliant colours in the volcanic rock. Bright reds and yellows contrast with the patches of green vegetation.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 996.64 MB).
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
Glorious colours of autumn in the woodlands. From the same walk as the previous uploads.
Explored 2013-11-12 #482
Before bushwhacking down to the lower creek, I took this shot of a drop right below Murhut Falls in the Olympic Peninsula. I've always had a fondness for this drop, but there was a lot more water than usual this visit. It was an amazing day--so many beautiful nooks and crannies.
Here it is from another visit.
I blogged about the six-hour bushwhacking adventure here. Lots of pictures!
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During our far too rapid drive from Kelchsau, Austria, to Linz, we did make time for a stroll along roadside walkways enjoying the fall colors.
Looking upstream along the stream that leads to Stórhöfði. You can see the brilliant colours of the volcanic rock. The springs on the slopes above the valley floor are all hot springs — there is a noticeable odour of hydrogen sulphide in the air.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 996.64 MB).
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
looking upstream on the river Teviot, as viewed from the Victoria bridge. hawick, Scottish borders, Scotland.
This is a view upstream from the potholes of a previous post and downstream from Manabezho Falls, in the distance, along the lower reaches of the Presque Isle River. This view is seen by crossing the suspension bridge, from right to left, as seen in the adjacent post, then going less than a hundred yards upstream. The rock comprising the foreground is the Precambrian Nonesuch Shale, which is actually more thin-bedded sandstone than it is shale. Here, the river flows off screen-right, where it goes through the narrow gorge containing the rapids and potholes. The narrow gorge is a new channel for the river. It previously flowed over the rocks in the left foreground, where there was a waterfall, now dry. Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Upper Peninsula, Michigan.
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Walking upstream.
An iconic Canadian image of salmon returning to where they came from to spawn. This art installation can be found on the York Street steps in Ottawa and is called: Kwáshkwan-in! (the Algonquin word for "jump).
This cottage belongs to the Savikoski mill milieu in Karttula, Finland and it is located upstream of the actual rapids and the mill.
Taken with:
Mamiya C330S
Mamiya-Sekor 80mm f/2.8
Kodak Portra 160VC (Expired 03/2002)
Scanned with:
Canon EOS 6D
Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100mm f/2.8
Negative Lab Pro
Looking upstream along the stream that leads to Stórhöfði. You can see the brilliant colours of the volcanic rock. The springs on the slopes above the valley floor are all hot springs — there is a noticeable odour of hydrogen sulphide in the air.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
This image was made from three panocube faces.
Original size: 7958 × 23874 (190.0 MP; 279.65 MB).
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
Looking upstream along the stream that leads to Stórhöfði. You can see the brilliant colours of the volcanic rock. The springs on the slopes above the valley floor are all hot springs — there is a noticeable odour of hydrogen sulphide in the air.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 996.64 MB).
See a larger view of this panorama here:
roundme.com/tour/547668/view/1798284/
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland
To the best of my knowledge this is the caterpillar of a Salt Marsh moth, photographed adjacent to Buffalo Bayou some 20 miles upstream from yesterday's hard industrial scene.
Despite the name it is found across much of inland USA.
(Aside : According to the albums list, this appears to be my 600th "our natural world" post and 200th "butterflies and moths" post)
After two days of tough hike on a steep ascent; at last we reached to Sirkhata Lake. In this hike, we also have crossed an unnamed mountain pass which was above 4300 meter in height. This pass located in north-east direction of Sirkhata Lake.
The next question for us was to decide which route we should opt for returning back. We got three options; first, was to be choosing the same trek from which, we had descended down the earlier day to this valley; i.e. the north east mountain pass but that doesn’t end up at Supat Pass and we wanted to see that as well. Also that trek was quite tough and the last portion of this pass was too steep, it was difficult to climb this portion in snow without having proper gear.
Second option was to trek up to Shames village and then hike on jeep road up to Supat top. According to locals it is a lengthier route and would take a full day to reach Supat top. Even reaching Shames village would take three to four hours from Sirkhata Lake. Before going to this trek I have checked Shames village altitude on Google Earth, it was around 3400 meter and from there going to Supat top was something a hike of 9 km in which we again have to gain an altitude of 1000 meter. So we left the idea of going on this route as well.
Locals insist us to choose a third option a shorter route for our return, that was a mountain pass run in North West direction of upstream of Sirkhata Lake. We were little afraid for choosing this ‘mountain route pass’ at first, because earlier day the mountain pass which we have crossed in north-west direction was full covered in snow and there were portions where snow was very hard and unfortunately because of not having proper snow gear, I slipped there four times.
We came to know that a day before our arrival a villager have crossed this pass to enter in valley. He was the first one to do so in this season, he told us though the pass is totally covered in snow but the condition of snow was not hard. So his words gave us confidence to choose this route.
Next day we got up early in the morning, we started our trek around 6:30 a.m., The weather was clear in the morning. Kohastani’s have interesting and hospitable customs. Before leaving everybody again came to meet with us. Earlier night Salman distribute candies among children’s. Every Children eye was glittering with expression of thanks. Also some Villagers hold our luggage and came with us for some distance and then say goodbye to us this is there tradition. We don’t have words of thanks for love and care shown to us by Sirkhata villagers.
We started hiking upstream of Sirkhata Lake along the small glacial streams. After hiking for one hour, a never ending glacier has started, initially for next 30 minutes the slope on glacier was gradual, than again the tough steep ascent started that was also all covered in snow. We reached at first ridge the height there was around 4300 meter. Still there was no sign of pass, we again started hiking and reached another mountain top but was also not pass. We were standing in different world it was vast mountain pasture all covered in snow. There was feeling in the mind at that time that we were standing in Antarctica, because the white was the only color we could see in all four directions.
Now we could see a mountain series running in west direction, but still our porters were not sure about the actual direction of pass. It was almost five hours that we have left Sirkhata Lake. We did not meet any other human in our way, a panic start creeping, both Salman and me watching each other faces and asked the porters in nervousness where is the pass? The answer was of more desperation, “Sir, I will not tell a lie with you, I am not from this area, I am not sure about the Pass.”
We could see a mountain range running on our west side, but it is almost impossible to cross this in this season without proper maintaining gear. Among this series there was a ridge which was of lower height. Salman GPS knowledge helped at that time, he confirmed that only this could be the respective mountain pass. It looks almost a straight wall of more than 30 meter height covered in snow. We sent one of our porters first at top; he asked us to wait, He still was not confirmed at last he saw a human some 200 meters down on other side and he started shouting, “Come up”. It was moment of relief. It was a straight climb, thanks to our porters that we able to reach at top without having any proper maintaining gear.
The scene from top were amazing, we could see a snow covered Supat & Maheen top from there.
Our journey still not end, we have to descend down from this pass and have to trek on snow againto reach Supat top. I will share that detail in next chapter.
We had walked past the lower bridge, heading upstream and this series of falls drains into a small but charming pool. This view zooms in on the falls and uses a modest long exposure without filters.
The Falls of Bruar are a series of waterfalls on the Bruar Water in Scotland, about 8 miles from Pitlochry in the council area of Perth and Kinross. They have been a tourist attraction since the 18th century and were immortalized in a poem by Robert Burns, The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Atholl, supposedly from the river itself entreating the Duke to plant some trees in the then barren landscape. The falls were probably formed some time in the last 10,000 years, after the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age. The waters slowly cut through the rock which had been pushed up by the geological forces which formed the Scottish Highlands some 500 million years ago. The layering of the rocks means that the water has cut a meandering path through the softer rock and left the harder rock untouched. This has led to the creation of deep pools, outcrops and, in one place, a natural arch. The falls consist of two large falls and a number of smaller drops. The water is often coloured brown from the peat through which it flows. Nowadays, the A9 Perth to Inverness road passes near the foot of the falls in Glen Garry, and there is a shopping centre and car park from where visitors may access the falls. A circular footpath leads up to the Lower Bridge, close to the natural arch, and continues on to the Upper Bridge, about 1/2 mile from the car park, before returning down the opposite bank. The total drop of the falls is about 60 metres. The narrowness of the gorge means that the falls are most impressive after heavy rain, but since the construction of a hydroelectric power scheme in the late 1940s, water is extracted farther up the river and the falls no longer reach the volumes they once did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_Bruar
This is the view from mid span on the bridge deck. It is deep and narrow but the color is a bit disappointing- just not enough contrast. I suppose I mean the size not the rock colors is the impressive part. The railroad tracks beside the river suggests the magnitude of the scale and height of the bridge. Cañon City, Colorado.
20230106_8287_7D2-435 Racing back upstream
A red Kawasaki and a blue Yamaha race back upstream from the Waimakariri River mouth.
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Hovering above the Brandsgil valley, you can really see the brilliant colours in the volcanic rock. Bright reds and yellows contrast with the patches of green vegetation.
Landmannalaugar is a natural wonder situated in the colorful rhyolite mountains of Fjallabak Nature Reserve. The region is known for its soothing hot springs, brightly colored peaks, steam plumes, and clear blue lakes. The hot pools at Landmannalaugar are one of many manifestations of geothermal activity in the area, which also tends to alter the minerals in the rocks, causing the beautiful colour variations from red and yellow to blue and green, a good example being Brennisteinsalda.
The Fjallabak Nature Reserve was established in 1979, covering 47.000 hectares. The land is mountainous, sculptured by volcanoes and geothermal activity, covered by lavas, sands, rivers and lakes. It takes its name from the numerous wild and rugged mountains with deeply incised valleys, which are found there. The topography of the Torfajokull, central volcano found within the reserve, is a result of the region being the largest rhyolite area in Iceland and the largest geothermal area (after Grimsvotn in Vatnajokull).
Volcanic activity in the last 10,000 years has been restricted to a few fissures. The most recent one, the Veidivotn fissure from 1480, formed Laugahraun, Namshraun, Nordurnamshraun, Ljotipollur and other craters which extend 30 km further to the north. Eruptions in the area tend to be explosive and occur every 500-800 years, previous known eruptions being around A. D 150 and 900.
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This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 52 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 996.64 MB).
Location: Landmannalaugar, Suðurland, Iceland