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Is that guy on the left trying to grab the sun? Is he only here in Aus, or does he appear all around the world?
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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.
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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Actual Devil's Nose is after this sign, to the left of the road. If you want to see the real Nose leave a comment! :)
Devils Orchard, an area of older lava flows, is slowly being repopulated by limber pine and plants of the sagebrush steppe.
Sitting in Devils Pool in the Zambezi River on the edge Victoria Fallls. Just behind us the water falls over 100m!
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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
The brightly colored pieces of cloth that you find
hanging in some of the trees along the Tower Trail
and elsewhere in the Monument are referred to as
prayer cloths, prayer bundles, prayer ribbons, prayer
ties, and prayer flags. They are physical, symbolic
representations of prayers and are here by American
Indian people as part of their religious ceremonies.
Please do not touch, take, or disturb these prayer
cloths in any way. It is considered culturally
insensitive to photograph these items and we request
that you do not do so.
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
Still finding some gems in the old slides. This one's from December of '03. Looking upstream on the Devil's River, north of Comstock, Texas.
An old female on the Night Tour.
Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian Devil is the second largest carnivorous marsupial in the world, second only to the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, which though considered recently extinct (early 1900s), a very slight possibility of their existence still remains and there are thousands of unconfirmed but reliable sightings since the death of the 'last' Thylacine in 1936 cannot be ignored.
Unfortunately, the Devil too faces extinction. In 1996, the first example of Devil Facial Tumour disease was found on a female devil on the east side of the island. Within 14 years, the 100% fatal cancer has killed more than 95% of the wild Tasmanian Devil population. Because of the Devils aggressive nature towards each other, they will often (particularly when competing for food around a carcass) nip or bite each other. The cancer cells are grafted on to the other devils jaw by the diseased devil during this behaviour, and because of thousands of years of developing on a small, confined island, the genetics are so similar, almost identical, like twins, that the immune system does not realise that the cancer cells are alien. The tumour grows without defiance, and kills the devil within less than a year.
A natural geographical boundary of mountains and rough terrain still remains, however, which acts as a natural fence between the diseased Devils on the east side of the island and the disease free devils on the west side. However, the effectiveness of the geographical fence can not be the only thing that must be depended on to save the devils. Zoos and sanctuaries all over Tasmania and the Mainland have taken in a population of devils for captive breeding programs, to ensure a population fit to restart the species when reintroduced into the Tasmanian wilds. So far there are about 600 in captivity, but at least 1000 will be needed before any hope of a successful reintroduction can even be hoped for.
One of my first genuinely Tasmanian Tasmanian Devils. :) This one was a joey.
A little known fact about the Tasmanian Devil is that for it's size it has the strongest jaws of any animal. When feeding together devils will consume the entire animal, sometimes only leaving a small bit of fur behind. In a Tasmanian Devil feeding scrum the gory sound of bones cracking becomes very regular.
Also, despite what some might say, the Tasmanian Devil is very capable of hunting. It will more often scavenge, as it is far easier for it, but they do have an ability to hunt that is not given enought credit to, however slightly limited it is.