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The Cliffs of Kolob tower into the sky, beckoning any climbers foolhardy enough to climb their sheer rock faces.
This photo was taken by a KИEB-60 medium format film camera with a МС BEГA-26B 2.8/120mm lens and Tiffen 67mm Orange 15 filter + adapter using Rollei Retro 80S film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Les chemins qui mènent au petit petit temple d'ulu watu dans l'extrème sud de Bali ,longent de tres belles falaises.
The paths(ways) which lead to the small temple of ulu wau in the extreme-South of Bali, follow very beautiful cliffs.
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Manzamo cliff in okinawa, Japan
Took this picture at 6pm, after the sun has gone down. Sunset wasnt too bad here, but the cliff itself is just a magnificant piece of art, the color of the ocean was just beautiful as well! So i thought of taking photo of the cliff together with the moving water by using a slower shutter speed, i even used pl filter n tripod to help the picture look better.
This is the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette in the valley alongside the small river Ruisseau de Courtineau. It is still open but you have to call in advance and the lady keeper will open it up for you. It is built into the cliff face.
I found the cliff walk quite scary -- and I'm not usually afraid of heights. But I seem to be getting more so as I get older. I did it anyway! And the views were worth it.
This is at First in Switzerland, above the town of Grindelwald. The peaks across the valley are the Wetterhorn, 3692 m (12,113 ft), and the Schreckhorn, 4,078 m (13,379 ft); the glacier between is the Upper Grindelwald Glacier.
Visitors can be seen walking along the Almannagjá Gorge in Þingvellir National Park in southwest Iceland. The cliff walls towering over them consist of stacks of numerous, successive basalt flows. Each layer in the stack is an individual lava lobe.
The entire Þingvellir region is located in a rift valley created by the drifting apart of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The tectonic plates are drifting in opposite directions at the rate of 7 mm (0.276 in) annually. Almannagjá lies along the North American plate on the west side of the valley. It measures 7.7 km long and 64 m wide at its maximum. The gorge’s cliffs lie along a fault with a maximum throw of 30-40 m. Geologists believe the Þingvellir faults (fissures) to be the surface expressions of deeply rooted normal faults. Basalt cooled from lava flows that erupted out of near by fissures about 2,000 years ago. On the right side of the photo, the volcanic mountain, Ármannsfell, is visible on the horizon.
This unique geology became the backdrop for some of Iceland's most important political and cultural events. Iceland’s settlement by The Norse began with the arrival of Ingólfur Arnarson in 874. Historians refer to the next 56 years, as ‘The Settlement Period’. Driven away from a newly united Norway under King Harald Fairhair, settlers from many different clans settled all around the island’s shores. Though the new arrivals shared an ancestral home, religion and language, difference sprang up because each clan had its own leaders and customs. Violence broke out from time to time between these clans both over their beliefs and for the limited resources their new island had to offer. In order to address these issues the people decided to hold a general assembly with members from each clan.
A man called Grímur Geitskör was given the tasks of gathering representatives from each clan and finding a suitable meeting location. As Geitskör was searching for a location, a man who owned a sheltered piece of land accessible from all corners of the country was convicted of murder, and his property turned public. This sheltered place was in the rift valley at Þingvellir. People from all over Iceland could reach the assembly place with no more than seventeen days of traveling. In 930 AD, over thirty ruling chiefs met for the first time at Þingvellir to discuss law on the island and to create a Viking commonwealth. This meeting and all the ones that followed took place with the cliffs of Almannagjá as a back drop.
Þingvellir translated literally means "Assembly Plains”. The Parliament, called The Alþing, met at Þingvellir from 930 to 1798 AD. Many important historic and cultural events occurred here while Parliment was in session which makes it one of the most imporant places in Icelandic History. In 1799 the Alþing stopped meeting due to Danish colonialism. The Alþing started meeting again sporadically in 1848 in Reykjavik. It was 1907 before the Alþing started meeting regularly also in Reykjavik. In 1928, just before the 1000 anniversary of the foundation of Alþingi in 1930, the parliament made Þingvellir a National Park. When Iceland declared it independence from Denmark in 1944, the ceremony was held at Þingvellir. Today, hundreds of thousands visit Þingvellir National Park every year and most of those visitors walk the Almannagjá.
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notendur.hi.is/oi/geology_of_thingvellir.htm
www.thingvellir.is/en/history-nature/history/
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Somehow, no visit to Bridgnorth is complete without a trip to the Cliff Railway - opened in 1892 and still going strong today.
I see there's a vacancy for a relief operator in the window - heck, I'd almost work there for nothing!
“If you approach the High Town by the cliff railway you feel you are being lifted up to heaven.” – John Betjeman.
The headland at Cwm Nash, a great place with nesting fulmars, coughs raven and peregrine. Steam appeared to be rising from the cliff top, due to the cloud formation.
These 300m high cliffs that show wonderful strata used to be desert 400 million years ago. They afford a wonderful view across the North Atlantic Ocean and the Skellig and Blasket Islands. County Kerry, Ireland.
Dettifoss is the largest waterfall in Europe, and it's truly an amazing experience to clamber right up to the top and watch/hear the thundering cascade. I couldn't quite maneuver well enough to get a visually compelling view of the torrent, but the view downstream as the sun rose over the gorge was pretty awesome too.
Cliff-nesting gulls that have declined across the UK in recent decades have established a thriving colony in East Sussex on this cliff shown above, the white specs are Kittiwakes and saw then all fly in large numbers was very exciting.
Numbers of kittiwakes have more than halved since the mid-1900s across the UK, the RSPB said.
But a kittiwake colony at Splash Point, Seaford, has bucked the trend, by adding another 300 pairs to its numbers, according to the bird charity.