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The Pendung Semurup waterfalls, approximately 15-20 meters in height, can be found on the eastern hills near the town of Semurup, and are reached after an easy, roughly one hour hike through relatively flat farmland and agroforest. Be prepared to get your feet wet wading through a few mountain streams on your way there! See more detailed descriptions here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.599289883456558.1073741...
Or check out www.wildsumatra.com
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
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Summer view of Orthodox church Panagia Korfiatissa and Catholic church Our Lady of the Rosary from 1823 (smaller and darker in front), in Plaka, the chief town of Milos, a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Cyclades group, in Greece.
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The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park is off the beaten path but worth the side trip. This state park is located between Mount Carmel Jct. and Kanab, Utah.
The pink sand is courtest of Navavjo Sandstone from the middle Jurassic geologic period. The same iron oxides and minerals that created the red rock country also contribute to this coral sand color.
If you hit the Coral Pink Sand Dunes at the right time of year, you can see where snow has accumulated and melted to create ponds of water upon the sand.
A variety of pitcher plant (Nepenthes) stuffed with a traditional Kerinci rice dessert called lemang. A traditional food from the village of Lempur in southern Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia.
A small town in Yorkshire, United Kingdom called Hutton-le Hole. While exploring the beautiful yorkshire country side we came across this picturesque town. Only about a dozen building and little foot paths between them. The light was hitting this one house that was separated all on its own and the paths just all seemed to converge there. I knew i needed to snap this photo. The light and shadow give contrast and beauty this small landscape and town with an interesting history. If you research you will find that this town was once thought of as the most ugliest of landscapes during the victorian era because its weird layout and small streets. Now look it. An artists dream.
The Pendung Semurup waterfalls, approximately 15-20 meters in height, can be found on the eastern hills near the town of Semurup, and are reached after an easy, roughly one hour hike through relatively flat farmland and agroforest. Be prepared to get your feet wet wading through a few mountain streams on your way there! See more detailed descriptions here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.599289883456558.1073741...
Or check out www.wildsumatra.com
The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in small town of Moni, in central Flores island, Indonesia.
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I am rather proud of this one! When I saw Upper Waterline Falls above this falls, I didn't even try to shoot it as the sun was blowing out the water even to the naked eye.
But I went on down to the lower falls here and tried my luck with the less intense sunshine on the falls. Now I'm thinking it is my best shot ever of this somewhat hard-to-get to falls in Letchworth SP.
I couldn't get as far away as I would have liked to for fear of being swept away in the swirling water I would have had to stand in.
The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
Morning light over Mykonos town (Chora), on the island of Mykonos, part of the Cyclades island group, in Greece.
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The sun sets on the cattledrove from Salisbury to Shaftesbury while I look for Chiselbury Camp in the fading light.
Overnight camp out in Chiselbury Camp, an Iron Age hill fort on the top of Fovant Down, famous for it's Great War camp badges carved in the chalk of its slopes. A 40+ mile ride from home in Southampton, up to Salisbury via Romsey and the National Cycle Network Route 24, then to Salisbury Racecourse where I picked up the old cattle drove that goes all the way to Shaftesbury.
Dusk falling meant I overshot my destination in the poor light! I rode another mile or two to Ansty before realising my mistake, and had to backtrack, so by the time I reached the old fort I had missed the sunset there and it was properly dark.
The sunrise made up for that though. Up at 5.30 and a short walk to the chalk cap badges while I brewed up some tea.
Back on the road shortly after, keen to get back before the midday heat.
Dawn light over the summit of Mount Rinjani (3,726m), the second highest volcano in Indonesia, on northeast side of Lombok island.
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Rezső kilátóhely
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The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
The beautifully painted interior of Santuario di Sant'Antonio a Fulgenzio (Sanctuary of Saint Anthony in Fulgenzio), a Franciscan church built in the early 1900s and dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, in the city of Lecce, Lecce province, Apulia region, southern Italy. The interior of the church is Apulian neo-Gothic style, very different from the Broque style of the main attractions in Lecce.
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On the way from Pakse to Si Phon Don our minibus had a flat tire. While waiting for the driver and his engineer to change the tire we had a chance to enjoy the smoldering heat in the middle of nowhere.
A cruise ship sailing past Little Venice in Mykonos town (Chora), on the island of Mykonos, part of the Cyclades island group, in Greece. Little Venice a scenic neighborhood famous for its 18th-century, whitewashed fishing houses with colorful balconies built directly on the sea edge.
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Stunning view of Myrtos Bay, on the island of Kefalonia, Greece.
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From a scanned 5x7 color photo. You can see he matte finish of the printing paper, especially in the sky. The colors had faded over the years, and I decided I preferred this even more.
Below that dark area in the field to the left is the beach and the ocean. Elephant seals in large numbers haul-out and rest in the warm sand. When I first saw them it was a small colony, and they were a lot further from the road, out of view. I was able to sit on a beach rock close to them without disturbing them, and watch them cavort in the tide pools.
They were pretty much undisturbed for quite awhile... but as the colony grew they got close to the road, easily spotted. Word got out and soon crowds came to see them. Some people weren't satisfied to view from a distance, walking right into them on the beach; I even witnessed a woman attempt to put her child on the back of a a female elephant seal. The smaller seal pulled away; had it bitten the child it could have caused a lot of damage. Much bigger (try 1,500 pounds!) was the territorial bull elephant seal, which could move faster that some would imagine. It could easily crush a human who couldn't get out of its way.
So the crowds became 'regular' parking lots and fences sprung-up, along with signs and docents to keep the visitors in check. I was very fortunate to have seen it in its natural state.
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Various minerals and vegetation create a colorful, testured, abstract landscape in Northwestern Canada's wilderness.
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A large bull elephant stops on a bridge to drink some water.
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A roadside sign warns drivers along Alabama Highway I-65 North in Deatsville that they need to to church the avoid the wrath of the Devil. The sign was erected by the late W.S. "Billy" Newell in the late 1980's as a way to "wake up the people," Newell told NPR in 2005. Newell briefly changed the sign to, "We Love Lucy," when 2006 gubernatorial candidate Lucy Baxley. Newell died in 2009. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)