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Memories from my last trip to a strange planet ;) Timanfaya, Lanzarote, centre of the volcanic eruption.
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The caldera of Mount Teidi on the island of Tenerife. Teide is still active. Measured from the ocean floor it is the world's third tallest volcano. Inside the caldera, I imagined that this must be what it would be like to stand in one of the Moon's craters. Simply take away Teide's thin and pure blue sky then strip the red, pink and purple hued rocks of their colour. Here it is....
The mainly bare, grassy rolling hills that abound in the area south of Kamloops take on a smooth, sculpted appearance under a good coating of snow. So in the winter, they often look a bit unearthly. Throw in the irrigation pipes and they look positively alien.
The Three Sisters are closely spaced volcanic peaks in Oregon. They are part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Cascade Range. The Sisters were named Faith, Hope and Charity by early colonizers, but are now known as North Sister, Middle Sister and South Sister, respectively. The North Sister is 5 miles (8 km) wide,[45] and its summit elevation is 10,090 feet. The Middle Sister has an elevation of 10,052 feet (3,064 m), the mountain is cone-shaped.
This image was shot near the McKenzie Pass summit. The elevation of McKenzie Pass is 5,324 feet. McKenzie Pass is not only one of the most spectacular rides in Central Oregon, it also leads you to a lava-rock moonscape at the top that spreads out before you for miles.
Parts of central Oregon were used as a training grounds for Apollo astronauts between 1964 and 1966. The astronauts would practice walking on terrain that was similar to the surface of the moon. They also practiced in Texas, Arizona, Hawaii and even Iceland. In August 1964, Walter Cunningham struggled in a lava flow at McKenzie Pass, where he eventually fell and tore his space suit. Cunningham piloted the lunar module on Apollo 7 in 1968.
BNSF Railway's Denver-Provo manifest passes through the Green River Desert between Floy and Solitude, Utah on May 15, 2021.
ORV and dirt bikes crisscross the badlands near Factory Butte making tracks over tracks. The bump on the right is an eroded volcanic vent and the small bump on the left is Wilbur.
Happy Slider Sunday!
Actually a windy morning at the Badlands in South Dakota. The bleak land gets it name for the terrain and I can understand when you think about the early settlers of our country that travelled across it.
Utah - Highway 12
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Northern moonscape shot on the 25th of November from my backyard in Luxembourg. Gear: C11, ASI178mc, Avalon Linear. Stacked with Autostakkert3, processed with Fitswork and PS. Added saturation to highlight the mineral composition of the surface.
I took this photo in 1983 when I was 11 years old - my first trip to Tasmania's west coast. Taken with Kodachrome 64 slide film with a Canon AE-1 and 50mm lens.
This was a 'life changing' trip for me - I took a photo of a protest (Franklin River 'no dams' protest) that got published that year ... and almost every year since. My most successful photo ever. I peaked early as a photographer. This year that image was published in the Australian Museum of Democracy (Old Parliament House) in Canberra - one of the biggest commissions for that photo to date.
But this image was kind of lost in a box of slides - never really took any notice of it until today. The scene is the road into Queenstown, a mining town that gave off so much pollution that it killed all the vegetation in the surrounding hillsides. It was nicknamed 'moonscape' and was ironically a tourist attraction.
The photo border is the real deal - not something added in post-processing, but the actual edge of the slide, which I converted to digital by sticking it to a frosted window and capturing it with my DSLR.
Today, vegetation is growing back and people are more interested in the rugged wilderness in the surrounding areas than environmental catastrophes.
Recently I returned to the west coast with my youngest son, who is 11 - seemed fitting. And all these memories came back to me.