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Visitors can be seen walking far down in the Almannagjá Gorge in Þingvellir National Park in southwest Iceland. The entire Þingvellir region is located in a rift valley created by the drifting apart of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The tectonic plates are drifting in opposite directions at the rate of 7 mm (0.276 in) annually. Almannagjá lies along the North American plate on the west side of the valley. It measures 7.7 km long and 64 m wide at its maximum. The gorge’s cliffs lie along a fault with a maximum throw of 30-40 m. Geologists believe the Þingvellir faults (fissures) to be the surface expressions of deeply rooted normal faults. Basalt from cooled lava flows make up the cliffs and valley floor. About two thousand years ago, the basalt erupted from near by fissures. At the top of the photo, the base of Ármannsfell, a volcanic mountain, dominates the horizon.
This unique geology became the backdrop for some of Iceland's most important political and cultural events. Iceland’s settlement by The Norse began with the arrival of Ingólfur Arnarson in 874. Historians refer to the next 56 years, as ‘The Settlement Period’. Driven away from a newly united Norway under King Harald Fairhair, settlers from many different clans settled all around the island’s shores. Though the new arrivals shared an ancestral home, religion and language, difference sprang up because each clan had its own leaders and customs. Violence broke out from time to time between these clans both over their beliefs and for the limited resources their new island had to offer. In order to address these issues the people decided to hold a general assembly with members from each clan.
A man called Grímur Geitskör was given the tasks of gathering representatives from each clan and finding a suitable meeting location. As Geitskör was searching for a location, a man who owned a sheltered piece of land accessible from all corners of the country was convicted of murder, and his property turned public. This sheltered place was in the rift valley at Þingvellir. People from all over Iceland could reach the assembly place with no more than seventeen days of traveling. In 930 AD, over thirty ruling chiefs met for the first time at Þingvellir to discuss law on the island and to create a Viking commonwealth. Their meeting place was within the Almannagjá Gorge.
Þingvellir translated literally means "Assembly Plains”. The Parliament, called The Alþing, met at Þingvellir from 930 to 1798 AD. Many important historic and cultural events occurred here while Parliment was in session which makes it one of the most imporant places in Icelandic History. In 1799 the Alþing stopped meeting due to Danish colonialism. The Alþing started meeting again sporadically in 1848 in Reykjavik but was given only limited powers by the King of Denmark. It was 1907 before the Alþing started meeting regularly also in Reykjavik. In 1928, just before the 1000 anniversary of the foundation of Alþingi in 1930, the parliament made Þingvellir a National Park. When Iceland declared it independence from Denmark in 1944, the declaration was made at Þingvellir. Today, hundreds of thousands visit Þingvellir National Park every year and most of those visitors walk the Almannagjá.
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This is the precise moment he bit me. It was my own fault. I saw a commotion outside and Camille (cat) was going after this juvenile chipmunk. I grabbed the little guy just as she was closing in, but I had the camera in my hand and decided to take a quick picture. Once he bit me, he wasn't inclined to let go. I shook him off onto a soft patch in the garden, but Camille was right there. So I picked him up again (some people are slow learners) and this time set him down in front of a known chipmunk tunnel.
I'm kidding about the rabies.
I hope.
Weihnachtszeit heißt Wintersonnenwende. Ein besonderes Erlebnis ist es, wenn man in dieser Zeit die Kleinsteinhöhle besucht. In den Mittagsstunden schafft es die Sonne nur in diesen Tagen, die hintere Wand der Höhle zu erleuchten. Interessanterweise ist genau an der Stelle, wo die Sonnenstrahlen am tiefsten in die Höhle hineinreichen können, eine Nische. Diese besitzt ein - zumindest teilweise - von Menschenhand ausgearbeitetes "Portal". Steht man darin, so sieht man die Sonne ab 10 Uhr vormittags unmittelbar im obersten Zwickel des Felsentors und die Sonne fällt als Strahl direkt in die Nische! Danach wandert sie weiter an der Höhlenrückwand entlang, wobei sie dabei einen markanten dreieckigen Lichtkegel bildet.
Bedenkt man, dass auf der böhmischen Seite des Elbsandsteingebirges bereits 12000 Jahre alte Spuren von Jägern und Sammlern aus der Altsteinzeit entdeckt worden sind (sozusagen die frühesten 'Boofer'), dann stellt sich die Frage, ob diese Kulturen bereits Sonnenkulte besaßen und natürlich vorkommende Naturgebilde wie die Kleinsteinhöhle für diese Zwecke modifizierten. Ein idealer Lagerplatz mit Felsüberhängen und kleinen Höhlen sowie gleichzeitig schönen Aussichten in die weitere Umgebung ist der Kleinstein jedenfalls. Die seltsame Nische mit dem zumindest auf einer Seite ausgeschlägelten "Gewölbe" hatte mich vor zwei Jahren auf die Idee gebracht, es könnte hier ein Sonnenbeobachtungsplatz gewesen sein. Die Beobachtungen in diesem Jahr (leider witterungsbedingt erst 3 Tage nach der Sonnenwende am 27.12.2020) bestätigen diese Theorie.
This natural rock arch located in so called "Saxon Switzerland". The rocks are sandstones that wereinfluenced by a disturbance zone ("Lusatian Fault"). Thus silification and tectonic mirrors can be seen. The sandstone forms a arch that looks almost like a gothic portal. During the weeks around winter solstice sunbeams are able to reach the back wall of the cave. Interestingly the point were the sunlight appears as deep as possible inside the cave is marked with a round arch portal. It seems possible that the cave was used like a sun observatory in prehistoric times. Only a few kilometers away in Bohemia there is evidence for people living in similar caves around 10.000 BC!
Bella, hiding behind a curtain & looking disgruntled. It’s my fault because I was out all morning &, even worse, I didn’t give her lunch as soon as I arrived home! Obviously she needs to retrain her staff…
A photo taken earlier in the year, though you could see a similar expression on her face most days when I return home!
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Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.
Ben Lomond is the most southerly of all Scotland’s Munros. At 974m high, it’s by no means Scotland’s highest peak, but the walk, views and proximity to Glasgow make Ben Lomond easily one of the most popular Scottish mountains for keen hikers.
This photograph is of the land near Palm Desert, California through which runs the San Andreas Fault. In taking this photograph, I was informed by a nearby sign that stated "San Andreas Fault," with an arrow pointing in the direction one sees in the image. I have been advised that the actual fault probably runs between the hills in the photograph's foreground, and the distant mountain range. For those interested, information regarding the San Andreas Fault will be found below.
The San Andreas Fault is a continental fault that extends roughly 750 mi through the Californias. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The fault was first identified in 1895 by Professor Andrew Lawson of UC Berkeley. In the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lawson was tasked with deciphering the origin of the earthquake, and he concluded that it originated from this fault line.
Researchers believe that the San Andreas fault has reached a sufficient stress level for an earthquake of magnitude greater than 8.0 to occur in the foreseeable future, but exactly when the triggering will happen and when the earthquake will occur is, of course, unknown. Should an earthquake along the fault occur, it will result in massive damage throughout the state of California.
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In life, sometimes we make stupid decisions that we just can't take back. Hurting ourselves and the people that mean the world to us in the process.
It may seem right at the moment but when it all sinks in and you realize the impact it has caused people, it's too late and it breaks you. The next thing you know, all you can do is just slowly sit in the corner, accept the pain and wish that you didn't actually do it.
Humans are complicated, separates us from the animals. But the complexity causes most of our downfalls too.
Driving down Hwy 198 on the way to Coalinga, great drive.
The line running through the valley below is the San Andreas fault.
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Steens Mountain National Back Country Byway opens up a world of views truly unique to SE Oregon. Besides one of the darkest night skies in the lower 48, Steens also plays host to several plant species that occur nowhere else on Earth (endemics) and serves as an example of one of the largest fault-block mountains in the world (one mountain over 50 mi long!). Yet very few even know this place exists...
Image Notes: Let me just say that Enfuse rocks. 7 exposures and the result was lightyears better than HDR. Such lower noise in the finished result as well. The flare was not added. Oh and look carefully and you can see the Cascades off in the distance.
The same 1:1 f/8 handheld 13-image focus stack of lichens--with both subject and camera movement--with no further processing. Just a little fun with how PhotoShop focus stacking works, or doesn't. First time I ever saw this behavior. Easily fixed, of course, as shown in the first comment, previously posted.
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This is a two shot hdr panorama of Mt. Borah (12,662 ft., 3859 m), Idaho's highest peak. The line at the base of the range is a scarp or scar which occurred along a major fault, 26 miles long and 7 miles deep. The most recent earthquake occurred on Oct.28, 1983 and was 7.3 on the Richter scale and was felt for over 500 miles.
As a result of this quake, Mount Borah rose 10 inches and the valley sunk 9 feet! New springs and craters or "sand boils" erupted in the valley resulting in the largest deluge of water ever recorded after an earthquake in the United States, some 400 billion gallons of water, gushed forth!
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Sardona UNESCO world hertiage area with Segnes Pass with Tschingelhörner (left) and Piz Segnes (center). The shark tooth like Tschingelhörner are part of a large thrust fault because two tectonic plates are colliding and forming the Alps. An older (250-300 mio years old) darker rock layer was pushed over a much younger, light colored 30-40 mio year old flysch layer, and the thrust plane is visible as a horizontal line in the Tschingelhörner as well as in the Atlas peak. The valley below us has been carved out by glaciers during the ice age. Originally U shaped will polished sides, it has been partially filled in by river deposits.
We embrace the imperfections of film photography — the dust, the lint, the missed focus and poor development — as if what we're photographing is itself perfect by comparison.
And this is all I remember from the much longer piece that I wrote for this photo. It was good. Very good (at least by my standards). I wove in metaphore, came up with some pretty unique phrases. I got down how I was feeling about life, the world, about photography. Hell, it was even inspirational.
But with a mistaken click of a button it just went away. I accidentally saved nothing over it, fully erasing it (I checked, it's gone, no advice needed).
I'm angry and sad and just plain old pissed off at myself.
And the knife twists deeper as this is exactly the example I needed to prove the point of what I wrote.
We embrace imperfection in film photography because we want to. Because the actual imperfections of life, especially now, are fucking brutal to bear.
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'Fault'
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Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
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"It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own." - Paulo Coeiho
Minty's caused at least 3 batches of brownies in America this weekend. Just remember, girl: with great power comes great responsibility.
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