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The rocky boulder landscape of Joshua Tree Park has long fascinated visitors to the Mojave Deserts. How were these steep-sided, bold outcrops, rising abruptly from the desert floor formed?
'Angelic Waves of Light' kicks off a second mini-series on the 'Great Ocean Road', due to more recent work trips in Autumn 2023 to Melbourne (the capital of the State of Victoria, Australia). The first mini-series was in late 2019, while on holidays.
The Great Ocean Road is 240-kilometres (150 miles) long. Starting just west of Melbourne, it runs along the south-western coast of Australia. Thus, highly accessible to Melbourne and easy to undertake weekend trips.
Now a prime Aussie tourist attraction, it has extensive Pacific and Southern Ocean views; also of beaches, limestone and sandstone cliffs, and rainforests. Its landmarks include the renamed 'Twelve Apostles' stack formations, and many more (see this gallery on the end of p.3 & p.4 re earlier trip).
The road also passes the 'Surf Coast' (really good surfing) and, later, the 'Shipwreck Coast'; with approx. 638 known shipwrecks due to gales, human error and, in some cases, foul play (Wikipedia), mainly during the sailing ship era.
It was built through tough terrains by returned WW1 soldiers, from 1919-1932 and dedicated to Aussie soldiers killed in the fighting. It's the world's largest war memorial. Perhaps this was why some stacks were renamed the 'Twelve Apostles', with my photo inadvertently called 'Angelic Waves of Light' perhaps also relevant; and of course to the festive season!
All the best and good luck for 2025, have a great one! :-) 🎉
Explore, December 30, 2024 #5
Samsung S23 Ultra 5G Camera
[Also pls note, this mini-series, like others, is bound to be interspersed with other unrelated shots, as determined by the photographic gaze and processes].
Four of the USAF Thunderbirds in tight formation during a practice run over Burke Lakefront Airport for the Cleveland National Airshow.
Airshow Frecce Tricolori 2019-06-23 a Punta Marina di Ravenna, Italy, Italian flag painted in the air with smoke by fighter jet formation.
Broken, jagged ice on the Bow River riverbed creates beautiful patterns and formations as it freezes, shatters, and re-freezes.
au petit matin avec température négative
(mon matériel ne me permet pas d'avoir un plus fort grossissement, dommage)
Loose cotton jacket GABRIEL @ ~uber~
Rollerblades (Black) RARE Junk Food
GARTER SOCKS VALE KOER
Bitch Tattoo [Hipster Style] @ KINKI EVENT
The Roulettes flying in formation in front of Mt Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania. Part of the Royal Hobart Regatta celebrations.
On my way back from Montreal the sky was painted with some pretty amazing cloud formations! Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love clouds, so it made the trip back feel shorter enjoying all the different designs!
At the end of the Cornwall Canal post waterfall when very cold the ice forms in moving water in circular so called pancake formation then sticks together.
It's really amazing, don't you think?
Landmannalaugar is in the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in the Highlands of Iceland. It is at the edge of Laugahraun lava field, which was formed in an eruption around the year 1477. It is well known for its natural geothermal hot springs and surrounding landscape.
Landmannalaugar is the northern end of the Laugavegur hiking trail and a popular destination for tourist traveling in Iceland.
Iceland. September 2015.
Two eurasian oystercatchers (haematopus ostralegus) flying in close formation, silhouetted against the sky that is colored by the midnight sun. Have a great day and feel free to drop by my Facebook page for more pictures. www.facebook.com/GauteFroysteinPhotography
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circa 1942: WWII, crosses in the air and on land somewhere in eastern Europe...photo by my paternal grandfather, a German soldier.
Walking along the path leading me up to Dubh Loch high in the Scottish Highlands on a freezing cold day, I noticed these ice formations that had formed through the peat and disturbed by other walkers.
This was taken on the beach behind Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge, in Martin County, FL. (More on this to come)
"The Anastasia Formation is a geologic formation deposited in Florida during the Late Pleistocene epoch.
The Anastasia Formation was named by E. H. Sellards in 1912.
Coquina obtained from this formation on Anastasia Island was used to construct Castillo de San Marcos during the late 17th century; a local material, it was relatively easy to quarry and proved to be effective for absorbing cannon damage. This formation is an integral part of the surficial aquifersystem.
Formed through multicyclic deposition the formation contains at least two disconformities, and two detectable ages. The formation registers in the late Pleistocene with oldest samples aging at 110,000 YBP based on radiometric dating."
For the sources of this information, and if you want to know more, go to Wikipedia, Anastasia Formation