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The above shot was taken in the Devil's Marbles Conservation Area during my trip to the Red Centre a few years ago. It is an amazing site with these boulders strewn across the otherwise flat landscape - perfect for capturing morning and evening light!
California, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Devils Postpile National Monument. John Muir Trail Mile 059.
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I hit the road today for a daylong photo shoot with my friend Darrell Robinson. Darrell pointed us in the direction of Devil's Falls a short way from the American River outside of Colfax. Darrell is a brave soul. He navigated us down a narrow eroded dirt road called Yankee Jim's Road with a steep drop on the canyon side of the road, across a 100 year old suspension bridge with a safety rating of 3/100, up a steep eroded grade through a canyon recently ravaged by forest fire and a monsoonal storm to this lovely waterfall. Did I tell you that I was driving. Here's a link to a beautiful photo that Darrell took of the upper portion of the this lovely waterfall for perspective. You'll notice the same rocks on the bottom of his photo that show up in my photo above.
www.flickr.com/photos/sierrasylvan/8266117084/
Pictures of the bridge are forthcoming. Best on Black
Yankee Jim's Road, Placer County CA
The yellow and orange leaves are now down, and only the brown oak leaves remain.
Devil's Lake State Park
Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Devil @ Dublin
Brussels Airlines A320 OO-SNA in special red devils livery, operating special flight SN1061 from Brussels to Dublin with the football team aka Belgian Red Devils to play Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday 27th, full time score 2-2.
The aircraft overnighted at Dublin, returning the squad after the match, departing back to Brussels as SN1062.
Brussels Airlines are no strangers to amazing liveries.
Devil's Church is a massive 15 meter high negatively sloping rock formation on a hiking trail in Heinola, southern Finland.
Went a trip to Finnich Glen yesterday, its been a while since I was last there. Its not so easy getting down into the glen now the rope is gone and the steps are starting to fall away in the muddy conditions. You do get a bit messy too.
When I arrived around sunrise it was something like -4c and cold. Before I left some ladies came down for a swim at the deep pool beside the falls. Rather them than me.
Devil's Punchbowl at Devil's Punchbowl State Park. Slack tide ~ 8.5 ft. It is a collapsed sea cave cut in thin-bedded sandstone and siltstone of the Astoria Formation.
My previous uploads featured the view from the top deck of a bus at Devil’s Dyke in Sussex, some 711 feet (216m) above sea level. It seems only right to show the rest of the bus, so here it is: Seaford & District’s immaculate former Dublin Volvo Olympian / Alexander, P772 SWC. Having walked across the Downs from the top of Ditchling Beacon (even higher at 813 feet above sea level), a trip back down to Brighton seafront on an open-top Olympian was most welcome :-)
After an eight hour mission, Louisiana based US Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0059/LA - call-sign 'Doom 11' from the 96th 'Red Devils' Bomb Squadron flies short finals to land at RAF Fairford during their stay here in the UK.
Notice how the undercarriage is slightly 'canted' to cater for the slight cross-wind.
It's deceptive as the BUFF was actually coming straight at me as can be seen by the wheels being straight down the approach/runway centre-line but with the fuselage pointing towards the wind which was then blowing the exhaust sideways!
Added HDR tonemapping
Devil's Dyke is a well known beauty spot on the South Downs near Brighton. At nearly a mile long, the Dyke valley is the longest, deepest and widest 'dry valley' in the UK. There are two explanations of how it was formed. The first says it was created over 10,000 years ago by melt waters at the end of the last Ice Age. Nah, boring! The truth, of course (or, at least, the one I prefer), is that it was dug by the Devil, who wanted to drown all the people living in the area, by digging a trench through to the sea, because they were the last in the country to convert to Christianity and he was miffed at the thought of losing his only stronghold. He had boasted he could complete the work in one day, but was tricked into thinking it was already dawn (by someone with a candle and a cockerel ... really?), whereupon he abandoned the job and fled, humiliated, never to return. Oh, and he threw some of the earth down in disgust as he fled ... forming the Isle of Wight. So now you know. :)))
The people on the footpath give an idea of scale.
Devil's Kitchen is one of the many natural wonders in the german region called "Dahner Felsenland" which means "Country of Rocks". This region is located in the southernmost part of the vast forrests of the "Pfälzer Wald" in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.
In this region, there are several beautiful rock formations, made up of sandstone. Many of the local castles are build on these rocks.
After all, I don't know why this rock is called "Devil's Kitchen". It might be for touristical reasons.... ;-)
The name probably came from the Anglo settlers later since the highest mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area was originally named by the Spaniards as Mount Diablo. Why the devil? Well, turns out that the Spanish conquistadors were trying to capture the Volvon natives and the conquistadors were either bewildered or got lost in this mountain. So they called the mountain the devil and the name stuck until this day. Most indigenous people at the time was captured and relocated to the nearby Missions. There are still remnants of Native village sites that can be found in the nearby Morgan Territory.
Commemorative Air Force's B-25 "Devil Dog" arriving into AirVenture 2024. This Mitchell is painted up in WW2 USMC colours.
Wicklow is known as the garden of Ireland. Devils Glen is renowned for its waterfall, so I headed there last week to try and capture the waterfall. These are some of the photos of the whole place. It’s like a world away from the everyday.
Afternoon light warms the face of Devil's Tower, in the Black Hills of northeastern Wyoming, which rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain over the Belle Fourche River. It's summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devil's Tower was the first National Monument, established by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. The Lakota Indian names for the tower translate as "Bear Lodge," and "Brown Buffalo Horn." "Devil's Tower" is a mistranslation of the original Indian name. It came to national attention in the 1977 movie, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," when the aliens landed on it at the end of the movie.
Explore 08/18/2012
It's not showy, but is a new species for my prairie wildflowers species set. I only saw one of these plants so I was lucky to get this.
Some species info: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51712-Bidens-frondosa
What a facinating place this is, The Devils Marbles, near Tennant Creek in Northern Territory. Natural erosion over millions of years in this unique part of the world, caused the marble like granite boulders.
These two propably the 2 most popular photographed boulders, standing about 4 metres high. Shot taken 5 minutes after the sunset, looking North.
One thing I quite enjoyed while in the Northern Territory, is the sunset colours on the red rocks and red sands. The reds were so intense! During the full daylight, the red was slightly washed out, definately worth waiting around at these places and waiting for the sunset or sunrise :)
Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve, Northern Territory, Australia.