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At some places the bed of the dry lake is a sandy salty flat. But at other places the repeated (rare) arrival of a little rain followed by immediate evaporation results in a surface that looks like it was once a muddy field churned up by giant horse. The dried clods are covered in salt crystals which will dissolve in the next rain and re-crystallize
Devils Tower National Monument, a geologic wonder steeped in Indian legend, is a modern day national park, climbers' challenge, and is remembered as the movie location for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." The Tower is a solitary stump-shaped granite formation that looms 1,267 above the Belle Fourche River valley, like a skyscraper in the country. The 865-foot sheer rock faces of the Tower are the preiminent challenge in the Black Hills for mountain climbers.
Some interesting history For more info and a pleasure to visit
Devil’s Speedway
Salt Flats - West Side Road
Death Valley National Park
California
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Devils Tower is located in the northeast corner of Wyoming approximately 70 miles northeast of Gillette off Interstate 90.
This was one of the few places that I have taken a photo from the highway leading to it, instead of going into the park itself. Could not see how I,d get a better photo than this. Did I make a mistake by not going into the park or was it better to shoot a photo and move on ?
Liked this version of the why......... by the Native Americans.
Another version tells that two Sioux boys wandered far from their village when Mato the bear, a huge creature that had claws the size of teepee poles, spotted them, and wanted to eat them for breakfast. He was almost upon them when the boys prayed to Wakan Tanka the Creator to help them. They rose up on a huge rock, while Mato tried to get up from every side, leaving huge scratch marks as he did. Finally, he sauntered off, disappointed and discouraged. The bear came to rest east of the Black Hills at what is now Bear Butte. Wanblee, the eagle, helped the boys off the rock and back to their village. A painting depicting this legend by artist Herbert A. Collins hangs over the fireplace in the visitor's center at Devils Tower.
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I've finally processed the rest of the Devil's Lake monochrome images I photographed back in April. I've uploaded several here, and the rest are in this set.
Formed by the glaciers 15,000 years ago, when they filled in both ends of a great river valley, Devil's Lake has always occupied a unique place in the Baraboo hills, its still waters surrounded by brooding 500-foot quartzite bluffs. The Indians called it Spirit Lake, and that seems a more accurate description than the modern name. Devil's Lake is one of Wisconsin's busiest state parks, and it tends to get overrun in the midsummer tourist season. But catch it in the off-season, and its brooding presence comes through. It does seem to be presided over by spirits. Black and white seems the best way to capture its haunted mystery photographically on days like this.
Devil's Throat is a 165 foot (50 meters) deep pit crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii.
Death Valley National Park California
Crystallized salts compose the jagged formations of this forbidding landscape.
Deposited by ancient salt lakes and shaped by winds and rain, the crystals are forever changing.
Listen carefully.On a warm day you may hear a metallic cracking sound as the salt pinnacles expand and contract.
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of broken columns, boulders, small rocks, and stones, called scree, lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.
Fur trappers may have visited Devils Tower, but they left no written evidence of having done so. The first documented Caucasian visitors were several members of Captain William F. Raynolds's 1859 expedition to Yellowstone. Sixteen years later, Colonel Richard I. Dodge escorted an Office of Indian Affairs scientific survey party to the massive rock formation and coined the name Devils Tower. Recognizing its unique characteristics, the United States Congress designated the area a U.S. forest reserve in 1892 and in 1906 Devils Tower became the nation's first National monument.
The 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes.Its release was the cause of a large increase in visitors and climbers to the monument.
Similarly, the 2011 movie Paul used the formation at the film's climax as an homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Native American story of the formation of the stars of the Pleiades at Devils Tower is featured in the 2014 science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
It is featured in a 2019 episode of The UnXplained titled "Unnatural Nature", documenting and speculating about the formation.
Devil's Tower featured in 2019 film Godzilla: King of The Monsters as Abaddon resting.
Devil's Tower, by the name Mato Tipila, is featured as one of 34 discoverable natural wonders in the 2016 Firaxis video game Civilization VI.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
Road trip southwest USA 2014
Day 7 : Spent my afternoon looking for Zebra Slot Canyon. Went left instead of straight, so I took the very wrong way, and walked for about 2h30. Didn't found it obviously, and decided to go back the day after, with some more information about the real trail. I finished the day photographing the sunset at Devils Garden, a cool rock formation not far from Zebra Slot Canyon.
Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mk. I + Tamron SP AF Aspherical Di LD IF 17-35 f/2.8-4 @19mm (geolocated in Flick'R map)
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This photograph was taken on a 12 mile trek in devils garden in Arches national park, Utah. I really liked the aspect that we could see far away snow cap on the mountains in the sweltering heat with thin the arches national park. The showcase of extremes in temperature at different locations and contrast of colors was interesting to capture
Devils Orchard, an area of older lava flows, is slowly being repopulated by limber pine and plants of the sagebrush steppe.
Looking out towards Fulking West Sussex,had 10 mins of sun before the storm rolled in on the way home to the smog...
To draw attention to the plight of the Tasmanian devil I am going to be making a work a day throughout October inspired by Tasmanian Devils.
Tasmanian Devils population has declined by 90% in large areas of Tasmania due to Devil facial tumor disease. In November I will be taking part in the Garmin Point to Pinnacle; a 21.4km long and just over 1,270 meters in elevation run up Tasmania's Mount Wellington to raise money for The Devil Island Project (www.savethetasmaniandevil.org.au/) If you would like to sponsor me you can at this link> garmin-point-pinnacle.everydayhero.com/au/Liz
Kangkung Devil, Take-2: this one is shot without flash to show the texture of the Kangkung leaves. Sri Lanka, June 2011.
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