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Some people about to jump off a really big hill outside of Brighton with parachute's stuck to their backs.
These devils are just so cute. There were about 7 in this enclosure, and when I would clean it they would all hide from me. ;-(
Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) fighting over food at the Devil Sanctuary, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.
I love watching. Roberto says: "Don't act to change the world, just look at the delirious human parade with a warm smile and enjoy it!".
I'm changing. I'm learning to do this.
She is beautiful, by my point of view, and if you just look at her red left side and leave apart the white one, you might also pretend to see her eye open, and it's evil...
A huge dust devil explodes into action as we approach the Lava Tower. The spectacle lasted mere seconds. The guides told us that although they had seen dust devils here before, they were often only a few meters high. This one was an order of magnitude more intense.
Devils Cornfield, Morning. Death Valley National Park, California. March 31, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Low angle morning light silhouettes receding hills and plants near Devils Cornfield, Death Valley National Park.
Taking advantage of the low angle light from the sun as it rose above the Funeral Mountains, I shot almost directly into the light with a long lens to photograph these backlit plants ("arrowweed" I believe) growing along the fringes of the Devils Cornfield area not far from Stovepipe Wells. Although the compressed perspective from the relatively long focal length disguises the fact, I was shooting from a hill that gave me some elevation above the flat surface of the Valley here, and provided a bit better view of the tops of the hills receding into the haze.
I made a variation on this photograph at the same time that I posted earlier - it is in color and used an even longer focal length to get a bit more detail of the mesquite tree that is barely visible in the upper right area of this shot. The color image has a much less start appearance than the black and white rendition with its contrast between the light on the tops of the plants and the surrounding dark soil.
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The famous three bridges at the village of Devil's Bridge in Ceridigion, Wales. The two stone bridges at the bottom and in the middle were finally superceded by an iron bridge in 1901. Close by are the Mynach Falls. There is, inevitably, a story about the bridges being the work of the Devil.
Location Crook County, Wyoming, USA
Nearest city Hulett, Wyoming
Coordinates: 44°35′25″N by 104°42′55″W
Area1,346.91 acres (5.45 km2)
EstablishedSeptember 24, 1906
Visitors386,558 (in 2004)
Governing body National Park Service
Along the road from Mt. Rushmore to Yellowstone we passed by Devil's Tower, a sedimentary monolith rising more than 1,200 ft above the surrounding area.
The Devil's Chimney is a limestone rock formation that stands above a disused quarry on Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
It is named for its peculiar shape, that of a crooked and twisted chimney rising from the ground. It is a local landmark, but its origins are uncertain. In 1926 it survived an earthquake, but not without a few cracks. In 1985 it was repaired and protected from further erosion.
Legend holds that the Devil's Chimney is the chimney of the Devil's dwelling deep beneath the ground. Supposedly the Devil, provoked by the many Christian churches of the area, would sit atop Leckhampton Hill and hurl stones at Sunday churchgoers. However the stones were turned back on him, driving him beneath the ground and trapping him there so he could not further harass the villagers. Now he uses the mass of stones as his chimney to let free the smokes of hell.
In the past, when the “chimney” was accessible, visitors would leave a coin on top of the rock as payment to the Devil in exchange for his staying in his underground home and not leaving to create mischief and spread evil in the local area.
The 19th-century geologist S. Buckman suggested that the strange shape of the Devil's Chimney could be put down to differential erosion, involving the softer outer rock being worn away to leave only the inner harder rock remaining. However, this would require some explanation of why there was a column of harder rock there in the first place.
The truth is probably that the Devil's Chimney was left behind by 18th-century quarry workers, who quarried around it as a joke.
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