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Majestic high-latitude clouds over the Þingvallavatn, Iceland’s largest lake, shot from the grounds of the Þingvellir National Park the visitors’ centre; the delta of the Öxará, a lake-to-lake river, is a prominent feature.
Behind it, left-to-right, the broad flat-top of Hrafnabjörg (763 metres, 10 km away), is framed by the Tindaskagi ridge (14-20 km away) to the left, and the long jagged ridge of Kálfstindar (around 11-14 km away rising to 877 meters above sea level). The mountainous plain north of Selfoss, around 30 km away, is just visible right of shot, centred on Inghóll.
Þingvellir (pronounced Thingg-veklir) is a motherlode of Icelandic culture, history, and geography. The National Park lies in a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Part of Þingvallavatn, the largest natural lake in Iceland, lies within the park’s boundaries.
Þingvellir was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland from the year 930 until 1798.
The name Þingvellir is derived þing (“thing, assembly”) and vǫllr (“field”), meaning ‘assembly fields’. Compare the English thing and weald (“Thingweald”) from Anglo-Saxon þing and weald.
Þingvellir National Park is popular with tourists and is one of the three key attractions within the famous Golden Circle. Consequently, it can get a little crowded around key hotspots such as the visitor centre and the boardwalks leading to it from the car parks, but with such a vast area and a large number of hiking trails, I found it easy to awat from the crowds and enjoy this stunning natural landscape.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
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Low and high clouds dominated this late afternoon.
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Picture of the day
This cloud type in mid-morning suggest the atmosphere is primed for thunderstorms late in the day.
Update: It verified as noted by my later uploads.
La distesa di nuvole bianche, come soffici fiocchi di cotone, al largo della Florida.
Foto scattata dal finestrino dell'aereo, in un viaggio di qualche tempo fa
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A day of constantly shifting light quality driven by rapidly changing cloudscapes, one moment blue sky and sunlight, another moment vast, white cloud castles, another moment, menacing, battleship-grey, monolithic clouds. I snapped this standing on the old, humpbacked bridge over the Union Canal, looking up towards Viewforth as more clouds were drifting my way
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New York City (NYC) skyline viewed from Hoboken, NJ.
3 exposure HDR using Photomatix 3.1.
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A trip up to Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, CA. to pay respects to my parents, who are buried there, also resulted in a most wondrous opportunity to photograph cloudscapes against the hills.
We get some spectacular sunsets at our holiday home in Capernwray in the north of Lancashire. I have never seen so many aircraft contrails before, and wonder whether they came from planes that have recently been manufactured at a large factory some 30 miles south of here. I am not aware of any nearby RAF stations.